Links to genre things

[sunnyskywalker]

Catherynne Valente has a short story available online which fans (and anti-fans, for that matter) of noir detective stories should check out: "Secretario". "In the City, there are three kinds of people: the dead, the devils, and the detectives." Which reminds me of all those crime shows where someone has actually worked out the demographics, and discovered that, for instance, Cabot Cove really was basically composed of murderers and victims (though only like 1/3,000 successful detectives).

Switching genres, Jaime Lannister and Ned Stark have a lightsaber fight here. It really makes it clear just how much Star Wars is a space fantasy, because if I didn't know this was A Game of Thrones, you could almost have convinced me that it was a scene from a new Prequelier Trilogy.