Richard Matheson – Richard Levesque

My Favorite Ways to Destroy the World

UPDATE: The Girl at the End of the World has now been released and is available in ebook and paperback formats at Amazon. Continuing with the end-of-the-world theme here in preparation for the upcoming release of my new book. I’ve settled on a title, by the way. It’s The Girl at the End of the…
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richardlevesqueauthor November 5, 2013 0

Destroying Los Angeles, Again and Again

I recently re-watched George Pal’s 1953 version of War of the Worlds with Gene Barry and was struck by the scenes toward the end as Barry’s character runs through the abandoned streets of Los Angeles, dodging angry mobs and Martian spacecraft. Not having seen the movie for several years, I was surprised at how compelling those…
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richardlevesqueauthor August 28, 2013 0

Richard Matheson’s The Shrinking Man: Size Matters

This is an analysis of one of my favorite SF novels. I originally presented this at a Popular Culture conference a few years back. A friend suggested I publish at the time, but the hoops associated with academic publishing were not the ones I wanted to jump through back then. Now I make my own…
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richardlevesqueauthor May 28, 2013 0