I time travel quite a bit. No, seriously, I do. It’s cheap and you can do it whenever you want, really. So long as you have photographs…. My father, the…Continue readingThe art of time travel
I was born on the same continent that gave us the stories, legends, myths, and fairy tales that underlie things like Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Wheel of Time, and,…Continue readingWhence fantasy?
“I’m here to tell you that working with the power who is out to destroy you will never, ever end well,” Aaron John Curtis says. Mohawk by birth, he offers…Continue readingAmazon Manifest Destiny?
How authors from Dickens to Dr Seuss invented the words we use every day The English language didn’t just spring from nowhere, Paul Dickson notes at The Guardian. So who…Continue readingWho invented…?
Science in fantasy novels is more accurate than in science fiction, Annalee Newitz postulates at io9. (See link below.) Image by Todd Lockwood from the cover of Marie Brennan’s Voyage…Continue readingFantasy, the new science?
The dream was the usual bizarrerie that inhabits my sleeping subconscious. There was a – a – THING – there was a sort of pictogram I was loking at –…Continue readingDream Director Quits
The top 10 bookworms’ tales From Hamlet through Helene Hanff to the Very Hungry Caterpillar, novelist Niall Williams browses the best books that manage to make heroes out of readers.…Continue readingThe heroic reader
11 YA Books With Happy Endings I’m not really a fan of everything-will-turn-out-well-in-the-end books, either as a reader or author. In fact, a reader once asked me in exasperation, “Have…Continue readingHappy Endings
Claire Fallon talks about words so overused that they’ve become meaningless and offers 12 examples. Do you agree? Disagree? Have an addition? Awesome! ~~~~~ The Most Influential People In 3500…Continue readingLiterally unique. Really?
The other day we tripped over a movie on TV – “Snow White: A Tale of Terror”, vintage 1997. I’m always one for a good re-telling of a good old…Continue readingUnhappily ever after…