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I loved Piers Anthony in my teens and I've been picking up a few of his earlier works when I come across them in used bookstores. The...

D&D has always had a hard time with neutrality, even more than with evil. Is someone just looking out for themselves evil? Sometimes...

While I've never heard anything bad about Stephen R. Donaldson himself, the rape scene in Lord Foul's Bane is much less palatable to...

I think Donaldson is like Piers Anthony where it's just the content of his work. I know I never got past partway through the first book...

I have learned to mostly separate something from its creator. If a story, or invention, is good, enjoy it or use it. If the person...

I read Anthony pretty heavily in high school (mid to late 80's) and even a little into college. The pun based humor was amusing enough...

I used to say there was a line of, uh, "prurience" in SF/F: on one end was Isaac Asimov, then it went for a ways to the middle, and then...

I didn't recognize the name, so looked him up on Wikipedia. He's the author of "The Universal Brotherhood", which I owned but never ran...

I knew David Eddings is problematic . . . and Piers Anthony as well . . . what happened with (Stephen?) Donaldson?

This issue was overall kind of boring for me at the time. Other than the ecology article, which was great.

Yikes. Didn't know about this until you posted. Also, I never loved the books as much as everyone. I liked them.

Doing post-mortems on campaigns and sessions that failed is important. Had I learned to do that sooner, I would've had fewer failed...

Wow, this review did not age well. Who would have thought at the time that Eddings was more problematic than Donaldson?

Maybe as "James Yates," but I promise you, as "James A. Yates" he wrote a lot of articles on this topic!

Honestly it looks less like the guy is being surprised by the lich, and more like they are both surprised by some third party somewhere...