The Books
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Brain Food: Speculative Fiction Docs
Speculative fiction is a genre with deep cultural roots. Here for you viewing pleasure are three excellent documentaries that go far in illuminating its...
Weekend Linkage…Fan Film Edition
Wheel of Time pilot that is better left forgotten… https://www.wired.com/2015/02/wheel-of-time-tv-pilot/ Fall Fantasy and Scifi Shows http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2016/09/02/fall-tvs-most-intriguing-new-science-fiction-horror-and-fantasy-shows/ Resources for...
Excerpt of my upcoming novel that does not yet have a title
For your reading pleasure, an excerpt from the novel I am currently working on (still figuring out a title…) Enjoy! **** Dayevan surveyed the bodies strewn across the field with the grim look of satisfaction that came from a hard job well done. The air was thick...
An Update
An Update Six years ago, I began work on a massive epic novel set in a fantasy world based (loosely) on the Greek-Persian wars of antiquity, with a whole lot other elements thrown in for good measure. (as a side note, so much of fantasy world building consists of...
Friday Linkage – Odd ‘n Ends edition
Why the Hugo Awards are irrelevant https://otherwheregazette.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/why-the-hugo-awards-are-irrelevant/ YA Fiction: the hidden menace? https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/why-young-adult-fiction-a-dangerous-fantasy Forgotten Classics...
Excerpt from THE THIEF OF GALADORN
“This is a bad idea.” Vasco the Mouse muttered the words to himself over and over like a prayer as he fiddled with the grappling hook. “This is a bad idea.” He swung it back and forth on the rope. “This is a bad idea, this is a bad...
The physical body of Zackery Arbela lives somewhere in the wilds of New England. The mind of Zackery Arbela can be found wandering the various planes and adornments of the temporal spheres, from whence he sometimes returns with new and fantasickal tales to tell.