Essays
Guess what? I like to write. Here’s my contribution to the hundred-million-typing-monkeys anarchy of the Web. As ever, everything here is property of Christian Sauvé, ask before stealing, yadda-yadda-yadda. You’re welcome.
1. A Few Reviews…
When a few reviews eventually become more than four thousand reviews, it’s time to move them to their own section.
2. Science Fiction
You either love it or you don’t…
- World Fantasy Convention 2001 Report: November 1-4, 2001, Montréal: Your reporter braves embarrassment to bring you a gutter-class report of a world-class convention. A similar French report was published in Solaris magazine.
- World Science-Fiction Convention 2003 (Torcon3) Report: August 29th-September 1st, 2003, Toronto: The Worldcon! The biggest literary science-fiction event of the year! In Canada! Read all about it!
- World Science-Fiction Convention 2004 (Noreascon4) Report: September 2nd-6th, 2004, Boston: A real Worldcon! Bigger! Better! Read all about it!
- World Science-Fiction Convention 2006 (L.A.Con IV) Report: SF fans and professionals mingling away from the hot South California sun.
- Science Fiction and the Public Service: A bibliographical essay describing how the public sector is usually represented in SF.
- Alternate Hugos: My take on the Hugos from 1951 to 2006, with plenty of alternate choices.
3. Movies!
Moving pictures producing unmemorable words. Don’t miss my movie reviews section, as well as my film criticism primer.
- 100 Good Films: A very informal list of some favorite (and not-so-favorite) movies.
- How to get Free Movie Tickets: A quick guide to obtaining advance preview tickets without breaking the law.
- 1997-1999 Summer Movie Parodies: Hey, I was young and I thought I could do better.
- Movies of Summer’97: The Parody: A spoof of most of Summer’97’s blockbusters: AIR FORCE ONE, THE FIFTH ELEMENT, MEN IN BLACK, etc…
- Movies of Summer’98: The Parody: Back for more fun: ARMAGEDDON, GODZILLA, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, etc…
- Movies of Summer’99: The Parody: (Just a trailer)
- An explanation for SOLARIS: Bemused by the George Clooney/Steven Soderbergh film? No more!
4. NaNoWriMo Blogs
Is it possible to write a novel in thirty days? Why, yes.
Is it possible to write a good novel in thirty days? Um, no.
- 2002 edition (Novel #1):
- 2003 edition (Novel #2):
- Writing: November 2003 daily journal
- 2004 edition (Novel #3):
- Writing: November 2004 daily journal
- 2005 edition (Novel #4):
- Writing: November 2005 daily journal
- 2006 edition (Novel #5):
- Writing: November 2006 daily journal
- 2008 edition (Novel #6):
- Writing: November 2008 daily journal
- 2009 edition (Novel #7):
- Writing: November 2009 debriefing
- 2010 edition (Novel #8):
- Writing: November 2010 daily journal
- 2011 edition (Novel #9):
- Writing: November 2011 daily journal
- 2022 edition (Novel #10):
- Writing: November 2022 daily journal
- The Actual Novel: Technical Collateral
- 2023 edition (Novel #11):
- Writing: November 2023 daily journal
- The Novel: On Guard for Weird
- Visual Overview
5. Travel
I’m not much of a tourist, but here’s what I got:
- New York 2001: My trip to the Big Apple, June 29-July 2 2001.
- Los Angeles 2006: Two days and a half in sunny L.A.
- Chicago 2007: Windy? Maybe.
- Vancouver 2007: Photos now; patter later.
- Florida 2008: (Coming Soon. Spoiler: I wasn’t impressed.)
- Denver 2008: Halfway between Texas and Calgary…
- San Francisco 2009: Lovely, but I can’t afford to live there.
- (A few years’s break…)
- Québec City 2022
- Toronto 2022
6. Random Stuff…
Some writings that don’t fit anywhere else.
- Losing Weight: Yes you can! I did, and it was fun!
- Laser Vision: One geek’s less-than-perfect experience with laser eye surgery.
- The Amazon Bookmarklets: A fun tool for bibliophiles.
- Being Canadian: An essay of the joys and pride of being a Canadian citizen.
- If you can read French, you can (in addition of being able to read French) read more of my writings on the French version of my Web Site.