Showing posts with label Fantasy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fantasy. Show all posts
Friday, August 16, 2019

Pillars of Atlantis

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The names and geography of the adventure tales of my childhood are never that far away from me.
Friday, July 12, 2019

Fun Reading: Malazan!

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This is the third book in a ten-book series. Steven Erikson's Memories of Ice. Erikson's heroic fantasy is real literature, inv...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

Bookish

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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Comfort Before Revising

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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Where's Jim Hawkins?

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Marin Headlands: just south of Rodeo Beach and north of Point Bonita. Looks like part of Stevenson's Treasure Island to m...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Literary Default: Heroic Fantasy

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Sword & sorcery, heroic fantasy, classical epic -- my favorite genre (yes, singular) no matter the space-time continuum.  Last spring I ...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Appreciating Erikson's Sword and Sorcery

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Steven Erikson of the Malazan sword-and-sorcery novels is a damn fine novelist.  He can write character like nobody's-business.  I won...
Sunday, September 4, 2016

"The Other Worlds": Life's Largest Riddle

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The Other Worlds  is an excellent mythopoeic novel by a dear friend, Christoph Greger.  Christoph's own humble way of introducing t...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Fool's Gold; Or, The Admonition

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How good is the book in your head--if it isn't on the page? What book? I don't see a book. In the head or in the heart? Page, ...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Goofing with Clay: Mythomarine

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Wet clay. Transformation almost complete --from man to fish -- Merman: body-armored against the cold sea. Bookend: A nod ...
Friday, November 28, 2014

Lindholm's "Wizard of the Pigeons"

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Megan Lindholm's 1984 novel Wizard of the Pigeons  is a novel that combines street grit and magical realism, urban fantasy and PT...
Monday, July 9, 2012

Introducing Fern Capel

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I'll quote a lengthy paragraph from the first chapter of Jan Siegel's Prospero's Children.   I am tempted to quote something abo...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Book Jacket Fantasy

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Oskar Kokoschka's The Crab (1939-40) The best cover for yet another one of those books I haven't written yet? Now, it's not qu...