Artwork by Dan Hillier
Category: Fantasy
Jan 27
Rubber
The industrialized world depended on rubber once. There was rubber everywhere. But then, one day, it came to life.
Jan 21
Children of Virtue and Vengeance [Review]
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi Henry Holt and Co., 2019 I was impressed by Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone when it came out in 2018. It was something different, an African-based culture handled in a Western fantasy way. There’s a monarchy, magic-users who are persecuted, swords and armor, and exotic …
Jan 07
The Raven Tower [Review]
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie Orbit Books, 2019 Ann Leckie’s fantasy novel The Raven Tower came out last year and received immediate buzz because of its unique structure and voice. Told in second person (that is, an unseen narrator addresses the main character as “you” and tells this You everything the You thinks and …
Dec 31
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
[Reading Challenge 2019]
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson Random House, 1972 (originally published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971) [Challenge # 28 : A book everyone else seems to have read but you have not.] I’ve heard a lot about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, so that made …
Dec 30
Amazed
“Maybe I’m a-mazed at the way you love me all the time…” (Supremely creepy poster art by Polish artist Wieslaw Walkuski)
Dec 18
Worldbuilding Wednesday 12/18/19: The Best of
xxxxTwittersnips (Spells I)
The fun of creating randomly generated magic spells derives from trying to figure out what they do from two or three words. Sometimes it’s self-evident: Robe of the Gymnast. Other times, I need to think a little: Aelart’s Fairy Feet. This was inspired by a scene in the Angelina Jolie fantasy movie Maleficent, where one …
Nov 20
Worldbuilding Wednesday 11/20/19: Minor Magical Items
Some magical items are very useful to the recipient. Some are cursed, or useless. But more often than not they have a minor kind of magic, helpful in a certain situation. Here are some of those items. Minor and Mundane Magical Items The Wizard Kift’s Small Dirt-kicking Satyr: A diminuitive statue of a satyr …
Nov 18
Unsavory Satyr
Isn’t this guy a shady character! He’s got a buckskin and pointed ears like the mythical satyr but no hooves. Peter Paul Rubens, 1638. On display at The Prado, Madrid.
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