World Building and Woolgathering

There are all sorts of interesting devices these days. Bigger and better telescopes, dense almanacs, precisely fitted sextants. And since th...

Naomi Mitchison,   The Corn King and Spring Queen Can't say I was as taken by this as False Patrick , but still very good. It's an i...

If at the height of heaven Saturn's cold and harmful star were lighting his black fires..... Pharsalia , Bk 1, Lucan, trans. Susan H. Br...

The eye-catching, vaguely-uncharitable and banally-provocative title of this post being something like 'Your Sisters of Battle suck - HE...

GACKLING MOON - the latest publication from Patrick Stuart. Except not purely the work of the False Machine, this time. As Kickstarter backe...

The fame of St Erkenwald (or Erconwold, Earkonwald, &c) may not, I grant, have reached very far. He was, variously, a son of King Offa,...

As suggested last time , a sketch for a 'scum narrative' in the Faufreluches setting.  A presumed playable structure might be a poi...

There was a great wind, and darkness on the face of the sea. Then the proud ships vanished. In 1571, the Holy League was fighting the Ottoma...

It should have happened the other way round. Last Saturday I saw Part Two of Dennis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune ...