Writing stories in the age of reddit
Nobody ever did anything great by chasing the herd
Aesthetics
The magical transformational power of art (even silly pulp stories)
Why art has a purpose far beyond simple entertainment
Marauding marketers make a mess of a serious pulp fiction artist by selling lots of books
The old myth of the struggling romantic artist who can't compete with the carnival-barkers just won't die... we won't let it
The Space Jockey was the real eldritch horror in Alien
And I don't mean the 8 foot tall albino bodybuilder in the flight suit from Prometheus
Hard science fiction is more philosophy than science
RP continues to flog this horse well into rigor mortis
The sublime terror of a distant galactic catastrophe
The Hubble telescope peeps up the universe's dress and shows us a miracle