World Building and Woolgathering

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

Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian , 1951 (trans. into English 1954 by the author and Grace Frick) Historical fiction. Read in light o...

The same form of miscellany post as ever - nothing immediately festive, though I hope you have feasted. *** I watched a film: Danger Close ...

A recent post at Monsters and Manuals set my mind going. I don't watch a great deal of television and would likely endorse the moral o...

A friend of mine recently sent me the reveal trailer for the Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London . Now, the notion of a Southern England-set Fal...

Another bid to produced golems divorced from the elemental concept. These are inspired less by a distinction from Natural or Elemental idea...

Rogue Trooper began life in the British comic 2000AD , the work of Gerry Findlay-Day and Dave Gibbons. The time? The future. The place is N...