Do fantasy writers give the night short shrift?
One of the common complaints about much of the fantasy genre is that modern writers are so used to instantaneous worldwide communications, rich and deep libraries and knowledge, and other common physical and intellectual extensions of their selfhood that they have a hard time really grasping the vast well of ignorance about the world through [...]
Petri Dish, Fixed
Several people pointed out to me that the most recent story, Petri Dish, seemed to be cut short, and so it was. By one word, “drink,” which I have added, along with the correct punctuation.
I knew there was a reason I kept the actual stories in plain text. Makes fixing these kinds of mistakes so [...]
How not to do foreshadowing: Karin Huxman’s Sea Change
I was reading Karin Huxman’s romance novel, Sea Change (New Concepts Publishing, 2005), and I have found much to mock.
The book is set in the era of Melville, of whaling and whale ships. We have our hero, Jonah, a merchant marine captain famous among captains for his sea knowledge and his never having lost a [...]