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Tag Archives: espionage
A couple of very fun sci-fi books
The early Cold War era was a time not just of great sci-fi cinema, but also of awesome sci-fi literature… and, contrary to popular belief, it wasn’t all doom and gloom either. Here are a couple of books, by two … Continue reading
Posted in FANTASTIC ADVENTURES
Tagged books without pictures, Cold War, espionage, Foundation, Isaac Asimov, politics, science fiction, Stanislaw Lem
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Anatomy of Batman #167
Batman comics have borrowed and blended different storytelling traditions from the get-go, but never was this more apparent than in the Silver Age, when writers constantly pillaged all sorts of books, films, and trends for inspiration (as opposed to more … Continue reading
Posted in WEBS OF FICTION
Tagged Bill Finger, Cold War, espionage, James Bond, Sheldon Moldoff
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Gotham Calling’s 120 Cold War movies – part 2
The second post in this 12-part series about Cold War cinema focuses on the early 1950s, when the conflict reached its first peak, in Europe as well as in Asia. The films below are all profoundly shaped by the booming … Continue reading
Posted in COLD WAR CINEMA
Tagged Cold War, espionage, movies, noir, politics, science fiction
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Gotham Calling’s 120 Cold War movies – part 1
It’s Gotham Calling’s ninth anniversary! This past year was especially irregular in terms of posting because I had more classes than usual, but I’ve finally found a way to turn this in the blog’s favor. One of my courses looked … Continue reading
Posted in COLD WAR CINEMA
Tagged Cold War, espionage, horror, movies, noir, politics, science fiction
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More Batman movies without Batman
Crisis on Infinite Earths #2 I was hoping to be back to longer posts this month, but it has been one hell of a year, so I’ll just stick to the regular COMICS CAN BE AWESOME section for a while … Continue reading
Another couple of British spy novels
Along with Eurocomics and old TV shows, I also like to use Gotham Calling to highlight cool spy novels. Here are a couple of British contributions to the genre that should please any self-respecting afficionados: BERLIN GAME (Len Deighton, 1983) … Continue reading
Posted in SPYCRAFT & WARFARE
Tagged books without pictures, Cold War, espionage, Len Deighton, Mick Herron, politics, Slough House
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A couple of very cool space adventure novels
So, I finally started watching Andor and it’s as neat as I’d heard. It’s Star Wars as a taut cyberpunk heist, compelingly acted and with enough of a distinct vibe to feel more satisfying than the endless retread of the … Continue reading
More cool episodes of Mission: Impossible
This is Gotham Calling’s 600th post! As usual, I like to signal these benchmarks with longer listicles (a hundred posts ago I listed my favorite westerns), so today I’m doing a follow-up to the post from last September ranking the … Continue reading
Posted in SPYCRAFT & WARFARE
Tagged Cold War, espionage, Mission Impossible, movies, science fiction
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A couple of 21st-century spy novels
Another post based on my summer reads… Besides science fiction, as always I also spent part of my break reading spy yarns. The last time I wrote about this type of books in the blog I focused on a couple … Continue reading
Posted in SPYCRAFT & WARFARE
Tagged Cold War, espionage, John le Carré, Mick Herron, Nick Harkaway, politics, Slough House, Slow Horses
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A couple of deservedly acclaimed futuristic novels
Another post about science fiction, but this one looking beyond comic books… Reading old novels set in the future can be fun in different ways. On the one hand, it’s fascinating to see how other eras imagined (accurately or not) … Continue reading