Once upon a midnight dreary, while I browsed weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore...
In fact, I went to Wikipedia to read about Norman Spinrad
They say that in an encyclopedia there are no answers, only references. It's even more dangerous at Wikipedia because it has links, lots of links. It's all too easy to start chasing links and end up in strange places. This is what happened to me.
I followed the link to The Iron Dream, an alternate history/science fiction novel by Spinrad which I have read many years ago. The article describes it as pastiche, of course there is a link. On the Pastiche page under "See also" there's a link to doujinshi, which sounded Japanese and hence intriguing.
On the Dōjinshi page there were many links to "Famous dōjinshi authors" (never heard of them), mostly with Japanese-sounding names; since I can neither read nor understand Japanese I decided to stay away. In contrast, Megatokyo seemed safe since it's written by an American. Now I'm hooked.
What has all this have to do with the name of the blog ? Check out
Sad girl in snow and you'll get the idea :-)
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