World Building and Woolgathering

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 ...

I read Margurite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian . Then so did Patrick . Over the last week we decided to get together twice for som...

I recently acquired an old copy of Alan Garner's Moon of Gomrath . I recognise that this name may not be a familiar one to readers. To m...

A busier than expected last few months, which included a chance find of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , as memorably reviewed by Patrick Stuar...

I suppose I could bulk this out into a fuller miscellany, but January's almost over and these go quite well together. I acquired two bit...

Patrick Stuart of the False Machine has announced a remastering of Veins of the Earth . I imagine most readers already know what this is; f...

There are those who will assure you that Hades is sunless. That warmth and light and the rest of the sun's qualities are quite unknown t...