Wayne's Reviews: An Introduction
Taking a chainsaw to media since 2013

Just before Christmas, Horst asked me if I felt like doing any more movie reviews. My answer was 'Yes but...'

Horst agreed with the but. He is willing to let me chainsaw anything I feel like! Which means I want to critique the logic behind the work. Why? Because an entire work of fiction, only hangs together if the base is logical.

... Tad Stones ...
... on Disney, Darkwing Duck and monologues

Darkwing Duck is a special hero for me. He turned up in the Disney Club one saturday afternoon, then on ARD. From the very first moment I was in love with this St. Canard crimebuster.

Mastermind of the series was Tad Stones, whom I met on Facebook quite a bit later. We agreed on an interview in various parts. This is the first part ...

The Chief's Pipe
Sitting Bulls' Pipe - Rediscovering the Man, Correcting the Myth

10 years after the print edition, now available as ebook: An exciting ethnological study on the most prominent Native American leader in the 19th century…

„These essays provide us with new dimensions of Sitting Bull, the Lakota leader; they further help define the material culture of the man“.

… Harry Harrison

Preambel: We want to look behind the work of some British  SF-writers resp. US-authors, who are known as »milestones« of SF-literature ( or at least »mighty pebbles«).

First I want to speak about Harry Harrison.

Naturally  it's my personal view, nevertheless I want to name the column  »the German view«.

The Hugo Awards

Introduction
Let's talk about the Hugo Awards. Horst has brought together a bunch of viewpoints about the Sad Puppy campaign, and the response to it, and we all owe him a huge vote of thanks.

Now to toss some dynamite into the discussion.

The Hugo Awards don't matter. Period.