Stories that are at their core cynical about the world present two different visions. The first is a vision of a world without heroes. The second is a vision of a world that doesn’t deserve heroes. These visions may easily be combined and sometimes are, but each can and does go alone, too. Together or…
Tag: world-building
CSFF Blog Tour: Dreamtreaders
Archer Keaton’s life, when he’s awake, is fairly ordinary: a brother, a sister, a dad, school days, chores. Friends, including that one he would like to have as more than a friend. But when Archer Keaton is asleep, his life is extraordinary. He is a Dreamtreader – roving the Dreamscape, meeting its many and often…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Realms Thereunder
He’s a homeless man living on the streets of Oxford, trying to eat and yearning for the realms thereunder. She’s an Oxford student with a lifetime of lies and an abundance of compulsions – dreading every day the realms thereunder. It’s hard to say which of them has the bigger problem. As children, Daniel and…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Ale Boy’s Feast
(Note: In conjunction with the CSFF Blog Tour, I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.) The king is missing, but frankly, that’s the least of these people’s problems. The people of Abascar are exiles without a home behind them. Bel Amica is an open refuge, except for maybe the refuge part….
CSFF Blog Tour: Building Corenwald
Every fantasy world is a mixing and changing of real-world elements. Corenwald, the setting of The Charlatan’s Boy, is different in which elements are chosen. Unlike most fantasy worlds, Corenwald is more American than European, more modern than medieval. A few things in Corenwald do sound British – the constables, the public houses. But the…