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Golf in Zimiamvia
This is going to be a rant: so if you don’t care about obscure early 20th-century fantasy writers in general, or E. R. Eddison in particular, look away now. I have a long-standing love affair with Eddison’s works. (And not just the fantasy, either: his translation of Egils Saga is hot stuff.) I first came [...]
I whooped at 1:30
Paul Dini will know why. Green Lantern is one of the comics I’ve loved best all my life. During my childhood it became a “foundation myth”, a storyline that matters profoundly to me, so that it underlies a lot of my fiction, sometimes covertly and sometimes a lot less so – …Helena stopped [...]
If You Knew Fiuggi (or: Deepcon XIII, March 2012)
It’s a pleasure to confirm that we’ll be attending Deepcon XIII in beautiful Fiuggi, Italy, next year. (I see that the news is already out here.) Dates haven’t yet been finalized, but the convention organizers advise us that the convention will be happening in the second half of March 2012. And we would not miss [...]
Some Ryanair moments
A friend asked to see these videos, so I thought I’d bundle them together in a single post. They’re comments on a certain airline which unarguably has changed the face of aviation in Europe — unquestionably for the better — but has since turned into something of a nightmare. Our own nightmare unfolded during the [...]
The Eyes in the Peacock’s Tail
Once upon a time, the King of the Greek gods, Zeus, was getting ready to cheat on his wife one more time. His latest target was a beautiful mortal girl named Io, whose resistance he’d been wearing down by sending her a series of racy dreams of which he was the star. Having finally arrived on her doorstep [...]
About the blogger
30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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