World Building and Woolgathering

 OR, A Primer for the Primer NB - the below is all untested. It is trying to provide a suitable framework to make the Primer usable, but the...

This looks to be the final post of the Primer proper; two other posts are in the works to round things off. Punth! Aristocratic republic of ...

Half as big again as a full-grown man. Hunters; Soldiers; Magistrates; Central Planners. Green four-armed aristo-commisars, acting out Star ...

Punth! Square cities by the bending river. Gene-mod oxen pull the ploughs. Goatherds gather their flocks into elevated shelters for fear of ...

I read most of the Erast Fandorin novels a while ago. They're Russian mysteries and thrillers by a chap with the nom-de-plume of Boris ...

I recently read over the proto-design document for Patrick Stuart’s Goose-Gold and Goblins (see here ). There were elements in it that put ...

These were intended for use with Terrae Vertebrae as Zodiac-cum-Tarot-cum-Pseudo-Jungian-archetypes - nominally the remnants of a defanged P...

On Monday (Monday 13th July, 2020, for posterity) the last episode of Series Four of the BBC Radio serial Tumanbey was broadcast on BBC Rad...

I have in my library a number of old paperbacks with rather fine covers. These do not depict directly the contents of the book, but are rath...

Reading about Chalcidius's commentaries on Plato, I learnt that about a number of alternate names for the planets of the Ptolemaic unive...