Isle of Wonder

It started with being a dumping ground for my extraneous projects in Medieval Studies while I was in university, now it is whatever subject I am moved by regarding literature, history or language.

Monday, June 18, 2018

Fahrenheit 451

I noticed Fahrenheit 451 had been made into a tv movie and, as I was cruising by, I watched it for a few minutes. The story did not re...

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

On The Beach

Published in 1957, 'On the Beach' was one of the first novels to try to imagine and portray the aftermath of a global nuclear...

Saturday, December 9, 2017

Swan Song

Carrying on my quest to see which science fiction writers got closer to predicting the end of the world, while the threat of another c...

Monday, January 16, 2017

The Speculated Aftermath of Global Nuclear War

I could go on about literary allusions in 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' which would be fun but I want to discuss his predictions ...

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The Red Witch: Southern Ontario, Canada; Heritage worker and Researcher. M.A. in Medieval Studies.

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