…or out of it, for that matter. Michael Kelley at the Business Insider asks if you’ve ever wondered where exactly King Kong came from? Then proceeds to show us on…Continue readingWhere in the world…?
Dystopian fiction has enjoyed a renaissance, Jason Diamond writes at Flavor Wire. Fiction set in some post-apocalyptic world run by a totalitarian government has occupied the same place in the…Continue readingHave you read…?
This was part of the inspiration for the mountain temple in my “Embers of Heaven”, so in one sense, I’ve been here before… uqpu.net imgur.com At the base of a…Continue readingWorld’s Scariest Trail?
What does a narcissistic flying reptile that loves the taste of crispy dwarves have in common with a beetle that shoots hot, caustic liquid from its butt? More than you…Continue readingHow do dragons breath fire?
Can you read your way to psychological health? Britain is finding out, Leah Price reports in the Boston Globe. What if a scientist were to discover a treatment that required…Continue readingCan books cure your depression?
The BBC recently asked why, ten years after the cult TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ ran, there are so few ‘daughters of Buffy’: “strong and complex fictional creations, who…Continue readingWhere are Buffy’s Daughters?
Vignettes from my town There are times that I do wish I lived in the same century as the rest of the world, that I carried a smartphone with me…Continue readingThe Dancing Santa & Obama
They left the world behind and flew out into eternal night falling into the moon a thousand stars beyond its rim shimmer softly, diamond dust in the darkness a long…Continue readingEarthrise
This could be your last chance to bid on turning into a Were-creature in the second book of my new YA series, The Were Chronicles. (The first book in the…Continue readingDo you want to be a Were?