One look at the cover and at the glowing advance reviews, and I knew I needed to read Pat Murphy’s latest book. The premise – that Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate when the three children of George and Mary Darling vanish from their London home overnight – is just that irresistible.
It’s time to venture once again from Darkest Suburbia to the spectacle that is OryCon. This year’s schedule has a unique wrinkle: I’ve been tagged as the moderator for all five of the panels I’ve been assigned. I hasten to...
Thanks to the astonishingly kind and forgiving folk on OryCon 39‘s programming staff (you’re better off not knowing the details), I will once again be a busy and active panelist this coming weekend. For the four and a half people...
And so, after a much-too-long hiatus, we return — with, I hope, rather more frequent updating in the weeks and months to come. At the very least, I anticipate regular posts restoring the lyric archive from the old SFF Net...
Counter-intuitive thought for the day: reading a bad book can be good for you. Yes, really. Let me explain: From a craft standpoint, sometimes one way to figure out how good prose works can be to look at clunky prose....
The short version first: a Kickstarter has just opened up that I’d like to see succeed. I’ve already signed on; now I hope some of you will, too. Let me tell you the story…. A couple of years ago now,...
from Dragon Magazine #139 (November 1988) The Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West Mary Stanton Baen Books The horses I’ve known were mostly working ranch animals, not the carefully trained and bred equestrian competitors featured in Mary Stanton’s novel. I...
from Dragon Magazine #92 (December 1984) The Riddle of the WrenCharles de LintAce Books Someone at Ace Books apparently decided that The Riddle of the Wren was destined for obscurity; I first saw a copy at a local 7-11 store,...
from Dragon Magazine#92 (December 1984) The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco Warner Books At first glance, a fantasy gamer might not expect to find anything of interest in The Name of the Rose; it’s the sort of book that...
