In honor of the kids going back to school, this will be the first of several posts about the great teachers I was fortunate enough to have in my academic career. To kick things off, let me tell you about Professor Verlyn Flieger. Back in the mid-1980’s, as a young English Continue reading teacher appreciation: verlyn flieger
One of the obligations (and considerable joys) of writing fantasy and science-fiction is the task of “world-building.” That is, the creation (or “sub-creation“, as J.R.R. Tolkien called it) of a fictional setting for one’s story. A well-built imaginary world is not only interesting, but also has a degree of versimilitude, usually because it has a Continue reading the importance of world-building
The latest in a series about influences from my earlier days As I’ve probably mentioned elsewhere, as a child I was into science fiction, thanks to Star Wars and Star Trek. As a teenager, I immersed myself in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (1st Edition, of course!) and largely abandoned sci-fi Continue reading when the world was young: elric
