The Black Santa Chronicles (or, Why Size Really Matters)
This is the story of Black Santa and his wife, Black Santa’s Wife. They also go by Black Father Christmas and Black Father Christmas’ Wife (I assume the missus has a proper name or title of her own, but I can’t find it). Don’t they look like a happy couple? Well, perhaps not, but that […]
Fantasy and Moral Ambiguity: Repetition Rears Its Ugly Head
Author Bryan Thomas Schmidt has taken a stab at author/editor James L. Sutter’s Suvudu post on why moral ambiguity in fantasy is a good thing. In said stabbing, Schmidt makes some well-worn arguments about why moral ambiguous fantasy presents problems for society, but the bulk of his argument — in my mind — rests on a […]