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Superversive Blog: The Needs of Drama vs. The Needs of Culture
Sing O' Goddes of the Eternal Tug of War between Hestia and the Muses! Of the constant struggle between the efforts to entertain and the efforts to spread a message. In particular, today, this...
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Superversive Blog: Your Book of Gold by John C. Wright
I want to write a brief post about why I love Spock, but many snow days have severely decreased my productivity. So that will have to be for next week. In the meantime, I have been meaning for some...
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I Heart Spock – my meandering reminiscence of my life-long love affair with a...
History has overlooked one of my favorite Star Trek characters. You never hear her name any more, even though you hear Uhura all the time. But no one ever mentions Nurse Chapel, but I loved Nurse...
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Superversive Blog: When Originality Is a Bad Thing
Today we have a guest post from author Suzannah Rowntree. She speaks on a subject near and dear to my heart. I am a big believer in creativity in our writing…but I find that a lot of calls for...
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First They Came For The Oscars: My Take On The Hugos.
With the Hugo Nominations being announced tomorrow, the topic of what is right or wrong with the award is quite popular right now. I am going to take a step away from most of the discussion on this...
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Superversive Blog: The Bosom-Jiggle Factor
Today, I thought I would do a post explaining the concept of the Needs of Drama vs. The Needs of Culture using visual aids. Normally, I avoid things quite this tacky, but it is such a simple way to...
View ArticleSuperversive Blog: When Should We Abandon Our Friends?
This subject has been quite topical recently. I thought a longer treatment than fit in a Facebook comments box was due. Imagine that you had a friend. He was clever and funny, loyal, brave and...
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Superversive Blog: Signal to Noise
Ever wonder why you are having such a hard time getting along with that once-dear friend who is now on the far side of the political Great Divide? This post might help bridge that knowledge gap....
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Superversive Blog: Leveraging Diversity Through Inclusiveness
Some of you know that I am currently taking the Boy Scouts of America’s Wood Badge Leadership Course. A friend, who had been both military and State Department, (they used to send him places to make...
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Superversive Blog: Trigger Warning or Smelling Salts?
A Victorian administers smelling salts to a lady who has fainted. I know of a family where the father was a man of many virtues, but—like all of us—he also had some vices. One of his vices was that...
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Superversive Blog: Guest Post by a Ghost
I am reposting this essay because I love it so much. It was written by Andy Robertson, the man for whom John wrote his Night Land stories. Mr. Robertson ran a website dedicated to William Hope...
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Superversive Blog: Wherefore Art Thou, Culture War?
Hello, All! Welcome back, as Superversive Blog recovers from its summer hiatus. Today, we have an interesting treat, especially for those of you who appreciate psychology and personality tests! The...
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Superversive Blog: What Stories Do!
Today we have a special treat, another post from the fantastic teen author, April Freeman. Teen author extraordinaire: April Freeman Not everyone loves reading, but who can resist a good story? There...
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Superversive Blog: The SF Culture War Posts — Part Two
Part Two of our multi-part look at the psychology of Science Fiction, as explained by Ruth Johnston, author of Re-Modeling the Mind, a new book that takes a fresh look at Jung’s work on personalities....
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Superversive Blog: Art of Courage Repost
In honor of the first anniversary of the Superversive Literary Movement, I am reposting the article that started it all: Where it All Began! The Superversive Literary Movement Good storytelling. Great...
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Third Repost: The Goals of the Superversive
Here is the third of our reposts, gearing up to October 1st, the first anniversary of the Superversive Literary Movement. Any new venture needs a mission statement. So, what are the goals of the...
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Happy Birthday, Superversive Literary Movement!!!
As of today, we are one year old. Coming soon: Special anniversary article by Tom Simon, Mr. Superversive himself!
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Superversive Blog: If You Had Introverted Intuition, My Dinosaur
Third in our ongoing series of articles of Speculative Fiction meets Jung as remodeled through the work of Ruth Johnston in her new book: Re-modeling the Mind: Personality in Balance SF Culture...
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Superversive Literary Movement Anniversary Essay!
Those of you who have joined us in the last year may not be aware that before the Superversive Literary Movement, there was still Superversiveness. It existed in the form of Mr. Superversive himself,...
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Superversive Blog: Life, Carbon, and the Tao — Part Two!
Today we have Part Two of our Superversive Literary Movement Anniversary essay by Mr. Superversive himself, essayist extraordinaire, Tom Simon! Snarky essays on the art of writing fantasy Life,...
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