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Color me curious how that goes. I’ve been thinking about staking out required reading time before picking up my phone for anything but medical business

I give you Clive Barker, at the beginning of Weaveworld: Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceded that; though as the...

I’d put Chivalry & Sorcery 1st edition up against it and win :) but yeah, it’s an amazingly dense book.

The Starving Saints, by Caitlin Starling. Oh, wow. Okay, let me expand on that. This is medieval fantasy horror in the vein of C.L. Moore’s Jirel of Joiry and Clark Ashton Smits Averoigne: medieval culture but its own religion and history, and there’s magic. The characters are trapped in a...

I just learned today that the audio version of Little, Big is narrated by one John Crowley, who apparently is very good at it. Gonna have to check that out.

I presume Charlie would much prefer it not be. :)

I think so too. The revelations at the climax of The First Law and An Age Of Madness are like textbook examples of catastrophe and eucatastrophe.

Sure. Sorry about that. My apologies. I was not at my best last night and didn’t bring the level of self-scrutiny and rewording the subject demands.

In fact, though, the opposite is true. John Scalzi gained readers and customers for his stands on various issues of the day. So has Larry Correia, for a strongly opposed set of views. The customers each one loses are made up by others who find the author laying out what they think should be...

It’s crucial to the overall development of. Abercrombie’s story, through the three trilogies, that a bunch of people do rise to the challenges of their times. Often they’re as surprised themselves as th reader is about who they turn out to be.

Along with James Ellroy, Barbara Hambly, Lindsey Davis, Ian McEwan, Caleb Carr, Victor LaValle, Robert Harris, Joyce Carol Oates…

Turtledove was a professor but shifted to full time writing in the 1980s. A collleague of his in this regard is Barbara Hambly, who left her medievalist doctorate unfinished to become a full time writer. She doesn’t glamorize her milieus, either fantastic or historical (the Free Man of Color...

It’s all misdirection. They’re work on an Age of Sigmar show. Okay, or not.

A Song Of Ice And Fire isn’t told “I’m the right way” for a bunch of readers with intelligent, adult objections, most b by broadly about the accuracy of asserted historical precedents and whether even if true they constitute sufficient justification for things like the portrayal of sexual...

And “book” can also mean something copied by hand by a scribe, a Folio Society tome, a zine, and ebook, an audiobook…. Objection! Presumes facts not in evidence! Often we don’t! Always happy to see Wittgenstein come up in these things. The point strikes me as something that should be self-evident.

You can’t always be ideologically neutral. Take questions like “Is this group of people we’re considering selling to a bunch of delusional perverts who need to be suppressed?” And “Is that group genetically inferior in cognition to the point too few of them could actually play our games and...