The wheel of fantasy
Riffing off of my Atlantic piece, fantasy author R. Scott Bakker writes: According to common wisdom, genre fiction is culturally cyclical: It ebbs and flows in popularity as time alternately burns out various tropes...
Daily Archive: August 3, 2011
Picture of the day
People use these words to justify a lot of things. Oftentimes, I think they’re misused, or warped in a fundamental, definitional way to mean exactly the opposite of what they actually mean. At a...
Bedtime Story
~by RTod Once upon a time, there was a Kingdom where the people were troubled. The kings and nobles that ruled them were vane, corrupt and cared little for those they were charged with protecting. While...
