World Building and Woolgathering

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

You must never call it a necropolis, for it is no such thing. It is merely the city where the dead dwell. No memorials, no tombs, no graveya...

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...