Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
Sometimes I wish I’d gotten an education, rather than a bunch of degrees. Maybe I’d understand more about what makes people tick if I had. Take the business of romanticism, which I’m convinced is at the heart of genre fiction, particularly SF and Mystery.
When I was in high school, I had no idea what “Romance” meant, except that was about being in love. Then I read Heinlein’s “Tunnel in the Sky” and got my first clue. Continue reading
In which we discover that Ernest is the ideal name. Though of course, we knew that already…