World Building and Woolgathering

The Susvul, females of which are known as Sauvixen, partake of both the fox and the wild pig. They have the swine's distressing likeness...

In a post over at Tales of the Lunar Lands  I threatened to put together a grouchy nostalgia-fuelled comparison of Middle-Earth designs mad...

I've written before about Silent Titans , and chances are you've heard of it anyway. You might even have an opinion on whether it...

There are two things that prompted the writing of this. The first thing is a few recent posts by noisms on the problems of writing from t...

There have been more deaths in Abermawr. These have been discussed and analysed sufficiently in the past, and I see no reason to add to an...

All these rivers resemble and behave like water. Most of the time. Sometimes it's murky water, luminescent water, weed-choked water, ...

The Book of the New Sun is (rightly) a moderately famous bit of speculative fiction - the sort of thing brought up by the kind of book-read...

I have, in the past, showed some interest in the Caucuses. I recently finished reading a copy of The Knight in Panther Skin , the Medieval...

Stepping forward from the last such post, I mentioned Dorothy L Sayers. I suspect it is in the climax of one of her novels ( Strong Poison )...

Recent reading has included The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks , by Robertson Davies (1913- 1995) and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by O...