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To change the meaning or not to change the meaning: THAT is the question...
Over the last few days, there has been a flap over Subterranean Press’s reissue of Orson Scott Card’s novella Hamlet’s Father. I have not read the novella. The flap, which is the word I’ll use instead...
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So You’ve Just Discovered Your Favorite Author Is Bat Spit Crazy…
Or has views on some topics that are massively divergent from yours. Or possibly has turned out to be a morally reprehensible letch. There are numerous issues that can come up when you look at an...
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Being a Discussion of an Issue, a Shopping List, and Notice of a Reading
There are so many things to talk about this week that I’m not sure where to start. First: do you shop at Amazon? Do you find yourself in need of a good RPG to play with your kids? The neighborhood...
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Miéville and me: the books that got me through it
What are the books that get you through it? Seven years ago, in September or October of 2004, I first heard the name of China Miéville. One of my best friends was reading The Scar, and he couldn’t get...
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Graphic Novels : A journey (pt 1)
The n00b (or a short introduction as to how I got into comics) I used to read comics as a kid – Bunty, Debbie, the occasional Beano but that was it. I never even saw Superman or Batman I don’t think....
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Graphic Novels : A journey (pt 2)
The n00b transforms I quickly realized, when looking around the graphic novel section of my local bookshop, that there were all these different versions of Batman, Superman and so on written by...
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The Trio and the Little Ones: A Halloween short story
Here’s a very short story (nearly flash fiction!) piece that I originally wrote for a contest my wife suggested I enter. I enjoyed the story so much, I thought I’d share it with you all. As the Autumn...
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The Circus Arrives Without Warning…
That first line of The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern had me ready to read the story of Le Cirque des Reves and the menagerie of people who were part of it. This is the story of two men who have...
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Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
I love quirky and odd books so when I stumbled across the book trailer for the young adult novel “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children” by Ransom Riggs I knew I had found another to add to my...
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10 Questions With: Tristan J Tarwater
I recently had the opportunity to do an interview with Tristan before she joined the Troll In the Corner staff about her writing, both her current book, Thieves At Heart, and her future endeavors. If...
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Welcome To The Empire State
Adam Christopher’s debut novel, Empire State, is billed as a mix of science fiction, noir and super heroes. It’s actually quite light in the super hero department and heavy on the noir elements. And...
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Naming Conventions
Licensed through an Attribution 2.0 Generic license from CC, from Flickr user tonynetone I’m not sure if there’s any thorn that sticks in the side of Game Masters more than coming up with unique,...
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A Nun in an urban fantasy? Whatever next?
Family reunions suck. What’s a woman to do when her dad’s the antichrist, her grandma’s the devil, the end of the world is at her doorstep, and she’s out to avenge the murders of her husband and kids?...
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Recaps, History, and the Written Record
Photo credit: me, on my camera phone This week’s post sprung from a comment made to me by my GM after our most recent session. She said “its pretty amazing how much your recaps have simply become the...
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A Review of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
I tend to be one of those people who needs to read the novel before the movie, or sometime immediately after, so I can sit around and decide what Hollywood did wrong. With that in mind I decided to...
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Interview with Skyla Dawn Cameron (author)
I recently conducted an email interview with one of my favourite authors Skyla Dawn Cameron. Her new book Lineage is due out 21st February 2012, third in the Demons of Oblivion series. Having enjoyed...
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The Ephemeral Art
Reproduced under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 License from Flickr user dolescum. Thanks! As promised, this week I’m going to talk more about what I called The Ephemeral Art, a.k.a. role-playing. Why did I call...
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Review : Demons of Oblivion series (books 1-3)
I recently wrote about the third book in this series and did an interview with Skyla Dawn Cameron, the author. Seeing as I realised I hadn’t actually reviewed the books on here I though I would correct...
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Are You Ready Player One?
I’ve never played Second Life but I imagine the world of Oasis that Ernest Cline created in his debut novel Ready Player One is what the developers hoped their online world would become someday. Set...
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Do Like the Romans Do
Taken by H. Silenus of flickr. Thanks! (CC BY-NC 2.0) This week is actually going to be a short post. I want to talk about a few things that I’m planning to do for the future (kind of a sneak preview),...
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