Kathleen Charters and Lawrence Charters
Explorations large and small
Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon was the 77th World Science Fiction Convention, the oldest science fiction convention in the world. Each year, it meets in a different city, and for 2019, the host was Dublin, Ireland, the first time for Continue reading Dublin 2019: Retrospective Hugos for 1944
One article from: Contemporary Literature Criticism has been posted. This was once a ridiculously expensive annual volume from Gale Research, but is now an annual online service for — some unknown price.
A little more than a dozen Fantasy Review articles are now posted. Careful readers will note that not all of these are fantasy, or science fiction. The journal was aimed at scholars, librarians, and science fiction and fantasy writers, and Continue reading Fantasy Review
Almost two dozen review articles from Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review are now posted. Many of these were written while in the process of moving from one country to another, and moving from typewriter to computer. The editor was Continue reading Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review articles
One review and two articles from Locus have been added. I used to read Locus as soon as it appeared in my mail, from cover to cover. Work, Japan, progeny, and other things made this more difficult over the years, but Continue reading Locus
LSA Open Stacks articles added. These were scanned from one issue that was printed by offset press, and the rest were mimeographed. Mimeographs are a technology best forgotten; the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) conversion was less than perfect, resulting in Continue reading LSA Open Stacks
Patterns of the Fantastic II is a volume of essays and papers presented in the scholarly track of the World Science Fiction Convention held in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1983. I was in the process of moving to Japan a the Continue reading Patterns of the Fantastic II
Random short book reviews. These are mostly science fiction and fantasy, with some history, computer science and other topics thrown in as seems appropriate. https://www.nishiryu.us/publications/mini-book-reviews These are not in any particular order other than chronological.
If you know anything about Star Wars, you know that this is a strange set of bedfellows. We have a Wookie, a robot, a Storm Trooper, and an evil follower of the Dark Side, all sharing a Star Wars-themed bedspread Continue reading Star Wars reconciliation?