“So … do we call you Peet?” Janner asked, fishing for more answers to his mounting questions. “Is that your real name?” The Sock Man stirred the boiling pot with a long wooden spoon and didn’t answer. The Igibys stared at him in an awkward silence. “What’s a real name?” Peet said finally. He pointed…
Tag: on the edge of the dark sea of darkness
CSFF Blog Tour: By Any Other Name
One of the quirks of speculative fiction is how hard people try not to use real names. The whole book is written in English, but old words are used in entirely new ways, the commonest things go guised under the strangest terms, and people have names no living human has carried in a thousand years….
CSFF Blog Tour: Perfect in Weakness
[Spoilers] I don’t suppose there’s ever a good time to have a mental breakdown, but Artham’s time was particularly bad. He was using himself as proof that sprouting wings or fur does not make a human a monster. Then he snapped; his eloquent words melted into gibberish and he terrified everyone with his wild terror….
CSFF Blog Tour: The Monster in the Hollows
Janner has fled his hometown, braved the lawless Strand, escaped the dangers of Dugtown, slipped from the grasp of countless Fangs, and crossed the Dark Sea. Now he’s in the Green Hollows, a rich and beautiful land. Above all, it is a free land, where he can walk the streets without fear of Fangs. The…
Review: North! Or Be Eaten
So the Igiby family is on their way to Kimera, to join the colony of rebels hidden on the vast Ice Prairies. The Nameless One still grasps for them, stretching long fingers across the Dark Sea. His trolls, his armies of Fangs are on the hunt for the Jewels of Anniera. If the Igibys manage…
Review: On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
Far away, on the edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness, lies the land of Skree. It is filled with quiet, gentle folk, which made it easy pickings for Gnag the Nameless. Now the country is infested by the Fangs of Dang. They’re stupid and lazy, but make up for it with their indefatigable brutality….