Here’s something sort of unusual. I don’t normally publish any of my fiction on this blog, since I am still hoping in vain that some editor will finally recognize its value and publish it. But this particular bit of (extremely short) fiction was written for a specific purpose – the New Scientist Flash Fiction Competition [...]
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And Now For Something Completely Different
Posted by Jonas on February 10, 2011
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2011/02/10/and-now-for-something-completely-different/
Second-Hand Elf
The Escapist has just published by newest article, a strange little thing called Second-Hand Elf. I’m quite proud of it, though I’m very aware that it may bother some people. I was considering preparing a list of responses to the most common objections (“Tolkien stole from everywhere!” – simply not true), but I ran out [...]
Posted by Jonas on January 4, 2011
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2011/01/04/second-hand-elf/
Wikipunk
Lately I’ve been intensely disappointed with cyberpunk authors Bruce Sterling and William Gibson. The latter has enthusiastically retweeted the most inane pseudo-philosophical articles about Wikileaks, most of which entirely miss the point of the enterprise and speak only in clichés and/or falsehoods. The worst of all these was written by Sterling, and I was quite [...]
Posted by Jonas on January 4, 2011
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2011/01/04/wikipunk/
The Game That Ate The Earth
My new Escapist article is up, and this one is very personal. It’s the complicated, bitter, glorious, silly and entirely strange history of Phenomenon 32. The Game That Ate The Earth. And it did. Comments, shares, retweets and musical renditions are welcome. But be nice. Writing this was extremely difficult.
Posted by Jonas on December 21, 2010
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/12/21/the-game-that-ate-the-earth/
Give Me An Axe…
My first article for The Escapist is now available for your reading pleasure! Let your friends know. Tell your grandmother. Ask your cat to retweet it. Oh, and read it!
Posted by Jonas on December 14, 2010
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/12/14/give-me-an-axe/
The Monsters and the Critics
The Monsters and the Critics is a collection of seven essays by J. R. R. Tolkien: “Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics” “On Translating Beowulf” “On Fairy-Stories” “A Secret Vice” “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” “English and Welsh” “Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford” Tolkien is one of those excellent academics who use [...]
Posted by Jonas on October 28, 2010
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/10/28/the-monsters-and-the-critics/
The Urthona Revolution update
In case you were wondering, I haven’t given up on The Urthona Revolution. I am currently just trying to decide where the comic will be hosted. When I’ve decided that, the story will continue with one update per week – though perhaps with more pages per update than before. Meanwhile, have you read A Stray [...]
Posted by Jonas on September 2, 2010
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/09/02/the-urthona-revolution-update/
The Twilight Experiment returns
I don’t have enough time or strength for a long blog post – today’s been a hard day – but Verena recently published the newest part of The Twilight Experiment. Go read it, for it is funny. More about my too many creative endeavours tomorrow. (Did I mention you should vote for Echoes and Awakening [...]
Posted by Jonas on August 16, 2010
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/08/16/the-twilight-experiment-returns/
The Urthona Revolution… what’s next?
I’m quite happy with the first few instalments of The Urthona Revolution, but I’m definitely going to move it away from WebComicsNation – either to a different host, or to a subsection of my own site. Since we’re going to be in Greece for the next three weeks (we’re leaving tomorrow), comic updates are going [...]
Posted by Jonas on July 8, 2010
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/07/08/the-urthona-revolution-whats-next/
Art Without Teeth
One of the biggest problems art is facing today is the definition of art in people’s minds. Too many people have been misled into believing that truly good art must consist of ambiguous abstractions that are somehow “timeless” – that art must be exclusively introspective, lacking context, and dedicated solely to celebrating the inability to [...]
Posted by Jonas on July 1, 2010
http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2010/07/01/art-without-teeth/
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