World Building and Woolgathering

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...

Orlando Furioso As referenced previously , I have been reading  Orlando Furioso , the work of Ariosto. In some ways, actually saying comment...

I've been reading Orlando Furioso , the epic poem of Ludovico Ariosto.   Lacking or ignoring the many heroic poems of the early Middles ...

The press is one of the great movers of the new age. If you are going to spread ideas or report on a new discovery or promulgate a new law,...

I acquired a book called North Russian Architecture in a give-away a few months back. A small item, pages of heavy high-quality paper, a wo...