What Tech Level is your Fantasy Part 3
So, I’m going to start this one with something really important: Clothing. We take clothes for granted (except when we’re that broke) and if we think about...
Peter Pan is Not a Vampire
…but I have a Peter Pan book and a vampire book. Just not at the same time. The statue, by the way, is the Peter Pan statue in Hyde Park. Review: Forgotten...
Farpoint!
By the time you see this, I’ll be at Farpoint. If you’re there, here’s my schedule: Books to Movies - Friday 4:00pm - Belmont Scary Stories to Tell at the...
Ooh ooh ooh?
Marvel’s Hit-Monkey 1.1 “Pilot” I’m tired of the trend of titling pilot episodes pilot. It was amusing the first few times, now it just feels lazy. This...
What Tech Level is Your Fantasy - Part 2
Covered wagon in Tombstone, Arizona Okay, so moving on to some more thoughts on tech in traditional fantasy. I apologize for splitting this across platforms,...
Slow Reading Week
Just one this week, and unfortunately it wasn’t to my taste. I’m now reading “Forgotten” by A Gural…which is definitely better, but still not to my taste....
Welcome Subscribers - Test Message
A swan in a parking place. Okay, so. I apologize for the double email, but this is a test message to make sure the migration worked and for me to get used to...
You Can Never Go Home
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew 1.1 “This Could Be a Real Adventure” So, I do have an issue with this show right from the start. I get it, this is an MG show, and...
What Tech Level Is Your Fantasy? - Part One
Traditionally, secondary fantasy worlds have hovered somewhere between late Medieval and early Renaissance, depending on whether the author or designer wants...
Maybe I Need To Attach A Content Warning...
The first book of the three has parental death and the second lots of animal death. Sorry, guys, just the way it worked out. Next book on my list is called...
Just Letting the Creativity Flow
It’s finally not quite the arctic here. Somebody just showed me a photo of the Baltimore Inner Harbor frozen over. This doesn’t happen particularly often,...
Highway Robbery!
Renegade Nell 1.2 “Tracks Less Well Trod” Nell commits her first act of highway robbery…stealing the stage coach and the people in it’s luggage. At least one...
"Neigh" to Trying This At Home
I’ve been watching Renegade Nell, which has some great horse action in it. Other movies, not so much. So, I decided to go through some stuff you might see in...
Echoes of Waystation
Just one this week. I’m currently working on another YA book, Dragons of Frost and Fang by Rowan Silver. It’s a bit of a tome. Review: Val Vega: Secret...
Winter?
No, the swan didn’t pay for that parking place…I finally got to look at some of the photos from my last trip to the U.K. That’s also not the swan who walked...
Horses Don't Neigh When They Run
The Acolyte 1.5 “Night” This episode has a body count. We meet Mai’s Sith master for real…including seeing his hidden face. There’s lots of lightsaber...
The Mystery of Sleep
Humans do it for 8 hours. Horses do it for 4. Koala bears do it for as much as 22 hours a day. Sleep.Most animals on this planet need it, and we still don’t...
Elephants and a trip to Mercury
Review: The Sun Runners by James Bow I’m going to start by saying I did enjoy this book, but I have three nits to pick. 1. Okay, so the Earth is in full...
Snow and Hot Chocolate
It’s been a hot chocolate kind of week here…the storm wasn’t that bad (Kansas City got nailed, though), but given the quality of snow clearing around here…...
Evil Twins?
Agatha All Along 1.7 “Death’s Hand in Mine” This is the tarot episode I was told about. From my knowledge of tarot, they got it pretty right. My knowledge,...