Once upon a time, a very long time ago when there were wolves in the forests and...
fantasy
set aside a couple hours in the screaming and the chaos that is surrounding us now and...
Looking for the beginning of my Jane Austen-Bram Stoker mashup? Part 1 Part 2 After having spent...
“Sisters are prone to jealousy, Mr. Blackabee. Some cannot bear to know that one of them wants...
Here you go, a vampire story in the style of Jane Austen, just in time for Valentine's...
A fellow who doesn't read much in the way of speculative fiction reads a wild novel about...
All I am saying, is give "The OA" a chance.
I’ve heard it said that at its heart, science fiction is really just an adventure story.
While this...
To the peeps who expressed an interest I need some questions answered for my own information. You...
As promised here are two cases from Avlis of magic equipped societies. I will begin with a...
Author’s Note: This post is a follow-up to my original post on the political economy of magic....
Reading through Taylor Martin’s excellent blog pointed me in the direction of a Dan Nexon post at...
Austin Allen has a lovely post on Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time up at Big Think:...
My sincere apologies to everyone who was, er, participating in this bookclub. With recent job changes and...
Alyssa Rosenberg and Adam Serwer both have responses up to my post on fantasy and the Anglosphere....
When I published my fantasy piece in the Atlantic it was linked (reproduced?) by Richard Dawkins’ site...
(Minor spoilers for the Harry Potter series and medium spoilers for the A Song of Ice and...
Don’t worry, no spoilers in this review. I just finished R. Scott Bakker’s novel The White Luck...
Lev Grossman’s The Magicians posed the question “What if your childhood fantasy turned out to be real?”...
~by Ryan B. Lots of spoilers for the whole series, up to and including A Dance with...