Edward Willett not only delivers an regular podcast interviewing writers of SF&F, he’s also been editing big doorstopper collections of (mostly) original SF for three volumes now, and he’s opened a Kickstarter for Volume IV. Give the fella a hand, won’t you?

Warlock at Law, by a husband and wife team writing as R.L. Baranowski, has just been released. The Baranowskis attended Taos Toolbox in 2019, just before the pandemic brought everyone to a screeching halt. Everyone but writers, see, because we work in isolation anyway. What impressed me about the Baranowskis was that they were dedicated, […]

Here’s the temple to Poseidon at Cape Sounion, perched on a cliff at the very tip of the Attic peninsula, viewed on our trip to Greece last year. You’re not allowed to walk on the monument nowadays, but it was very different when I first saw the temple forty-odd years ago. I not only walked […]

As I wrote in an earlier post: Breathes there a man with soul so dead that he doesn’t like cowboy songs?  Even if they’re sung in Mongolian, with indigenous instruments and throat-singing? What you need for a proper cowboy-western song is the following. A sound that somehow invokes the big open spaces. Music that reflects […]