Recent content by Britannicus

I've just launched the competition that I promised, on my website for the series The Gardens of the West, under "News". I'm hoping that readers will send me suggestions - in the form of artwork or photos - of how they visualise individual characters. Generous book prizes and online credits for...

Hi, here's a newbie member announcing a new historical fantasy series: The Gardens of the West. This is my first venture into the genre, but some of you may know other books of mine published by Wildside Press, e.g. the Lemnos science fiction series, four plays (a rock musical, a comedy, and...

I agree strongly with the last two posts. And as a writer do you want to make your text more comprehensible, or less? I think it's a bit different, though, when it comes to film or TV versions (think Tolkien and George Martin), where - if it's done well - the sounds of the invented languages can...

By the way, the Romans weren't unaware of dragons (the concept may have filtered through from China via the Persians). Roman auxiliary cavalry carried the draco, a windsock-type standard, and the Welsh dragon, supposedly the oldest national symbol in the world in continuous existence, may have...

I've just published my first historical fantasy novel (The Eagle's Wing), set in a version of late Antiquity, and I made the deliberate decision not to include dragons. I reckon that the more grittily "realistic" the feel of your imagined universe is, e.g. like George Martin's late...

At most times in human history people have accepted that their own community's god(s) might not be shared by others. Followers of different religions might not like each other - usually for cultural, social, economic or political reasons, not because of the beliefs - but the enthusiasm to...

I write SF, and historical fantasy (loosely set in Late Antiquity). In the SF novels, most people are eating processed food rations in tablet or powder form, and fresh food without chemicals of any kind is a great luxury (our world is already moving in that direction). In the historical novels...