Recent content by Thaumicist

My first character ever was called Marindana, and starred in a completely weird fantasy story I wrote when I was eight. My longest continuously serving character, both all-time and current, is one Zeth Reza, ne Zephyr Wyrd (don't look at me like that - I was twelve). He will shortly be six...

Being seventeen, I mostly read A-Level textbooks. Atomic physics, yay! :) That and War and Peace. Which is even more epic, in both senses of the word. But my submission for all time best book ever! would have to be Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. Retro soft sci fi tearjerker. Which does not...

1) Always, as a sort of point of principle. I stay away from fiddling with the actual laws of physics (no quantum stuff or spacetime bending), but I try to tie in the stuff I add. I also like to present 'real' science, however inaccurate, going on alongside it. On the rare occasion I don't write...

Rotorua in New Zealand. Hell's Gate geothermal park. Touristy but amazing, in a terrifying and brimstone-scented way. Chemicals in some of the lakes have turned them bright screaming lime green, like boiling slime. The green lake, a photo from Northland, North Island | TrekEarth And Piha Beach...

I was advised to read her Secret Books of Paradys collections by an author on a school visit, and wasn't disappointed either, though they were hard to acquire (Amazon can be an evil thing). They're from the late 80s to the early 90s. A couple of the early stories are confusing to the point of...

In the unlikely event that anyone actually wants to know - I'll be internet-less for four weeks as of Monday due to being on the far side of the planet. Really looking forward to those twenty-four hour plane journeys...

Oops - thanks for pointing that out, I knew something wasn't right there.

Just turned 16.

For any who may not know: The Eye of the World was published in a 'YA edition', which basically meant it was split into two books with larger text and a 'special prologue'. It was this I had the misfortune to find in my school library. No disrespect to Jordan's memory or fans: I can...

I only gave my world a name because people kept asking what it was called and then refusing to understand when I said "whatever the Mir word for earth is". Actually, that's probably the main reason I expanded from a single country to a world in the first place. Usually I would hold to the...

The way you describe it should depend on who your viewpoint character is. If it's told from his own viewpoint, he likely won't notice his own heraldry at all, except to compare it with that of others - he does see it every day, after all. If you're writing from the perspective of a different...

Elimithy? Hmm...well, if it counts for anything, I like it. It probably is a bit long, but it's certainly not too weird. Otherwise... Who named your world? Apart from you, obviously. If your viewpoint character hails from a culture that speaks a guttural language with a Z in every word but no...

Why, hello there. Uhh...please allow me to dispense hopeful advances of friendship to you. As you can no doubt tell from my obvious social ineptitude, I am not in fact a teenage aspiring novelist with an unusual degree of interest in astrophysics, Renaissance magicians and anything...