Guest Post: “Freedom to Name” by Max Gladstone (Three Parts Dead)
Somewhere in Thailand, a mind-controlled ant climbs a tree. She moves in jerks and starts, her body no longer her own. Alone, she staggers to the underside of a leaf, and bites the thick central stem. Her jaw locks. Her chitin bulges and bursts. A long gray tendril rises from within, unfurls to three times […]
Guest Post: “The Palest of Copies: History, Culture, Empire, and Fiction” by Daniel A. Rabuzzi (The Indigo Pheasant)
(Details about The Indigo Pheasant, Mr. Rabuzzi, and his blog tour can be found below the post. Go buy the book!) Historians of medieval Europe would be surprised at the pallid, static and simplistic depictions of their subject in the work of many modern fantasy writers. In the past fifty years, medievalists have overturned Western […]