Even if your enemy has any number of vicious cutthroats, and still more vicious ferrals, at his command, one could see reason in hunting him down, if the necessity were great enough. But when your enemy can see you coming from a thousand miles away, one would strain hard to see any reason in taking…
Month: August 2013
CSFF Blog Tour: A Cast of Stones
Not to put too fine a point on it, Errol Stone is a drunk. Drinking is the only thing he’s good at. That, and running errands over the Cripples. In an effort to earn more ale money, he agreed to take a message to the hermit-priest. So he got involved in the Church, and the…
CSFF Blog Tour: Unfashionable Furniture
When I saw that A Cast of Stones – showcased this week in the CSFF blog tour – was listed as adult fantasy, it made me happy. Maybe unduly happy. I was glad for the adult label for the reason that the majority of the speculative books I’ve recently read are labeled YA or younger….
Realm Makers
With Realm Makers come and gone more than two weeks ago, the initial Internet buzz has begun to subside. Already most bloggers who want to throw in their two cents have done so. So here am I, late to the party. I first heard about the Realm Makers conference in May, through Speculative Faith. They…
CSFF Blog Tour: Dual Worlds
The back cover of Captives declares it “Teen Fiction”. I would need to think about that. My fourteen-year-old sister showed interest in this book, after she saw me reading it; I warned her off it. Though discreetly handled, the drug addiction and sensual indulgence were more than I felt comfortable with her reading; nor was…
CSFF Blog Tour: Captives
There are two worlds, separate of their own choosing. In the Safe Lands, all is pleasure and comfort and convenience, greased by the omnipresent wonders of technology – except for the thin plague, and until the time of liberation. In little Glenrock, life is harder and the rules are stricter – but there is the…
CSFF Blog Tour: Dystopian Dreaming
In the 1930s, civil war wracked Spain. Under the banner of the Republic, socialists and anarchists and Communists threw in their lot together; the Nationalists – granted force by the military and the Catholic Church – responded to the fears of the middle class. Josef Stalin supported the Republic with arms – always for a…
Prism Tour Review: King
Akabe’s highest aspiration is to rebuild a holy house for the Infinite. His highest priority is staying alive. As the followers of Atea seek to make him king no longer – in the most final and irreversible way possible – he struggles to stay ahead of the knife’s-edge of their schemes. Choosing an Atean queen…