Utilizing the Unexpected
At thirty, everybody dies.
Okay. Not really; this isn’t Logan’s Run. But sometimes in speculative fiction, it can seem like it. Mystery is the genre of the mature protagonist, while science fiction [...]
The Politics of Dancing
Politics are the basis of human behavior, equally at work in royal courts, high school cliques, military organizations, modern corporations, international negotiations, alien first contact situations, and stone-age tribes. Politics [...]
Achieving Freshness in Fantasy
In the crowded bookshelves of genre fantasy, originality sometimes feels utterly lost. Hordes of The Lord of the Rings clones march forward, orclike, overrunning bestseller lists with extruded fantasy series [...]