Our cities are full of majestic monuments, stunning sculptures and artistic statues, each having a story to tell, Bored Panda says and offers us 25 of them. Image credits: Bruno…Continue readingGreatest sculpture?
1. There are times that I have sat and watched words which *I am typing* appear on the screen in front of my eyes… and not recognized them. That’s how…Continue readingAn author confesses
“These days we’re desperately trying to get more people to read (‘Please, read anything, here’s a YA novel by the Kardashians’) but in the 1800s, it was a different story,”…Continue readingIs reading fiction dangerous?
I time travel quite a bit. No, seriously, I do. It’s cheap and you can do it whenever you want, really. So long as you have photographs…. My father, the…Continue readingThe art of time travel
I was born on the same continent that gave us the stories, legends, myths, and fairy tales that underlie things like Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Wheel of Time, and,…Continue readingWhence fantasy?
“I’m here to tell you that working with the power who is out to destroy you will never, ever end well,” Aaron John Curtis says. Mohawk by birth, he offers…Continue readingAmazon Manifest Destiny?
How authors from Dickens to Dr Seuss invented the words we use every day The English language didn’t just spring from nowhere, Paul Dickson notes at The Guardian. So who…Continue readingWho invented…?
Science in fantasy novels is more accurate than in science fiction, Annalee Newitz postulates at io9. (See link below.) Image by Todd Lockwood from the cover of Marie Brennan’s Voyage…Continue readingFantasy, the new science?
The dream was the usual bizarrerie that inhabits my sleeping subconscious. There was a – a – THING – there was a sort of pictogram I was loking at –…Continue readingDream Director Quits
The top 10 bookworms’ tales From Hamlet through Helene Hanff to the Very Hungry Caterpillar, novelist Niall Williams browses the best books that manage to make heroes out of readers.…Continue readingThe heroic reader