World Building and Woolgathering

You are a man out of time. You are yesterday's hero, and tomorrow's.  You are of the Palace. You are a Paladin. This is a treatment ...

You touched the metal disc on the wall, vast and engraved with scenes you couldn't quite make out. There was a flash: the sun, moon and ...

Yoon-Suin inspired a certain amount of Punth: A Primer , notably some of the 'deliberate mystery' regarding the Qryth and their nat...

On the borders of the Thousand Day Regency there is a small world - not the smallest - orbiting a distant star - not the most distant - an...

Yoon-Suin has a second edition. I chose to do a little retrospective work when this news was announced, as you may see here. Now the new e...

A number of blogs have been putting out Appendix N posts as part of a bandwagon. I'm not going to do so - in part because I already have...

The Heptameron , Marguerite of Navarre Marguerite, from a drawing held at the Bibiotheque Nationale. A sixteenth century collection of tales...

The looming, biomechanical, Freudian image of the Alien franchise may not immediately hint at the Cold War. Certainly, the first few films ...