In 1947 a book titled Of Worlds Beyond: the Science of Science Fiction Writing was published. It was a collection of essays about writing science…
Another Obscure S-List Writer
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I first became interested in Richard H. Fay’s short stories due to comparisons to two different authors. I didn’t know the exact titles at the…
It’s fun, ridiculous, and about cats. Cat Lady is a card game where the players take the role of cat ladies. The game takes pains…
Slaying a Tyrant starts off with the titular tyrant and shows his disregard for the norms of his culture. Isn’t that the nature of a tyrant? A ruler, no matter how absolute his power, that stays within the bounds, formal or informal, placed on his power is not a tyrant. One who breaks no formal law, but who violates informal norms, often is a tyrant.
A Once and Future Love was my first time travel romance. Based on it, it will not be my last, nor will it be my last book by Anne Kelleher. It had three big strengths separate from the things that have kept me reading romance on and off.
The best superhero material being produced today is not in comics. There are good comics. I am really enjoying Silencer which combines an interesting new…
This was first posted on an earlier version of this blog on May 13, 2017. I am re-running it because it is relevant to the…
Stones of Silence is a recent book by Peter Grant. It is the the first book of a trilogy he released monthly starting in May,…