Author Spotlight: Eliza Chan
It’s a creation tale with a twist. Firstly it’s set in rural modern Japan and secondly, rather than the moon being a heavenly body, it’s a whiny pathetic little thing.
Archive for December 2010
Films of High Adventure: Dungeons & Dragons
There’s something sort of fascinating about a film that was clearly intended to be fan service that instead just manages to infuriate and bore everybody. People who played D&D, people who didn’t—everybody.
The Boy Who Made Stars
It was on a day in March that he created stars. Not a normal day in March, perhaps, because it was the last month of junior high school.
Those Inexplicable Weirdnesses: Sarah Totton
It always struck me as such a bizarre coincidence that a tiny bone in the ear that’s involved in the conduction of sound could look exactly like a stirrup (the Stapes of the title), something that was made by humans for a completely different purpose.
Malleus, Incus, Stapes
Jack had been writing poems for Lillian, but they’d all come out tangled, embarrassing messes. What were words to her anyway? If he gave her something she could touch, then things would be different.
Author Spotlight: Tony Pi
The Song Dynasty has so much potential for great stories, and every new fact I learn about it makes me want to write more set in that time period.
The Gold Silkworm
What healing skills I had came by way of Cao Shen, the Spirit of Grass. Madame Ke might think me a charlatan for that, but medicine was medicine.
One of Those Rare Stories: Matthew Johnson
The notion of the farmers dividing up the pile of wormcast was inspired by a scene in an Icelandic saga where characters divide up a beached whale, an event which was specifically mentioned in Icelandic law.
Holiday Gift Guide (For the Fantasy Fan)
The holidays can leave even the most thoughtful gift-giver feeling frazzled, but if any of your friends enjoy fantasy films, consult this guide for the finest in niche purchases!
Holdfast
Irrel was halfway through milking Black-Eye when the sky went dark with dragons. He looked up to see what had happened and saw dozens of winged shapes obscuring the sun in the east.
