Reviews of “When I Was Ming the Merciless” (1976) and related work

“When I Was Ming the Merciless” (1976Text)

Gene Wolfe (writer).

Read in 2025.

Read in the collection Endangered Species (1989).

A set of coincidental correspondences between one player in a game and the main villain of Flash Gordon (1934).

text fiction

Flash Gordon (1980Moving picture, 111 minutes)

Camp. I’ve seen it twice; all I remembered from the first time, in childhoold, was bits and pieces of the violence; a strange nostalgia.

References here: Xanadu (1980).

moving picture same source material fiction