Mythago Wood
It is a place where myths become true. No. It is a place where myths are more than true; a place where the myths have power and you have none. The effect is a diminution of the self in the face of something older, vaster, and stranger.
Mythic fiction
Hacking Galileo Book Review
Hacking Galileo by Fenton Wood is many things: an adventure, a lament for an age now lost, even a manual for subverting obsolete technology.
This book is for the adults who once were the spergy GenX and GenY kids who are the stars of this book. The kids who built
The Gemini Man Kickstarter is Live!
This is a good week for adventure fiction writers. Friend of the blog JD Cowan has launched a Kickstarter to complete publication of his Gemini Man series.
I reviewed the first book, Gemini Warrior, in 2019. Gemini Warrior is set in a shared literary universe, Heroes Unleashed, and one of
SGT. Thor the Bold
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by
WBH Weekly Digest 2023-04-21
Synoptic history of Europe, The Night Land, how epic fantasy has failed readers, the most horrifying anti-war satire I've read, and a cover reveal for Spengler's Future
Art as social technology
You need to ask yourself: what thing am I being accomdated to by reading this story? What am I offering, and to whom? All art does this, whether consciously or not. The character of the author is of supreme importance in making this judgement.