'Serenity'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
clandestine science fiction novel: A work set in the future that receives a strong reception from the literary world as long as no one mentions that it is, in fact, science fiction; for example, The Road, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
I think that was my favorite.
deconstructionism: A moderately successful attempt by the French to avenge the loss of Paris as the global center of literature.
Bwah!
Funny. Another, a review from Mrs. Giggles of a fantasy/erotic ... novel? "... is like the pornographic movie version of Walt Disney's Pocahontas, only with added talking animals - many of them, all of them thankfully incapable of singing - as well as and various engorged body parts doing things that will never be done in a Walt Disney cartoon."
Yesterday's Jeopardy had a category of Unfinished Hugo Award Winning Titles--you had to fill in the blank. I missed a few of the "easier" clues (Asimov's "A ____ with Rama," for example), but got the two at the bottom of the category: Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must ____", which no one knew, and Miller's "A ____ for Liebowitz", which is one of my favorite books ever and which I was happy to see the champ get correct.
Wasn't A Rendevous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke, not Asimov?
Yeah, that might have been it. All I knew was I didn't know it!
"Rendezvous with Rama"! With the regularly scheduled end-of-mission orgy! Possibly not the main thing Clarke wanted me to take from the story, but I was young and prurient.
Interesting article in The New Yorker about artistic prodigies vs. late bloomers. [link]
Ha!
Leaving it up just because it's funny.
Try this one- the article is Late Bloomers by Malcolm Gladwell.
Content not found on that link, Barb, but you've got to love The New Yorker's error message