It depends on your story, but if you're going for realism you should check out Project Rho and then read The Killing of Worlds anyways. :)
Since we're naming off the classics here, I would highly recommend both Hesiod's Theogony and his Works and Days, usually packaged in the same...
Malik, since there's enough high-quality steel in my own setting it merits a fair degree of research, finding out about your blog is both a huge...
Ugh, I know! I just tipped over 40k, and Saturdays are really bad for getting the time to write. Guess I'm gonna hafta sit down after dinner and...
I would do anything to sidestep an issue like this. IRL days of the week don't sound right to me, and I don't want to learn new ones. The calendar...
Yeah, but you know you're gonna do it.
But you're soooo close. I am very much having the same issue, after a fairly challenging November IRL. But got at least 13K to go, and man it's...
But of course! Sadly, Gormenghast is likely to sit with The Magic Mountain and The Recognitions among the great works of genius I'll never get to...
Considering that Weis and Hickman revisit After the End and Second World tropes in their other books fairly often, I don't think this young man...
PKD was a very specific form of genius, both loose and sloppy and profound in a way few authors can aspire to. No one else can imitate. I'd rank...
Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe is the pinnacle of American speculative fiction IMHO.
Hi everyone, name's Kevin from the sunny ontological prison that is Los Angeles. Been reading the MythicScribes articles for a while, somehow...
I haven't revisited them in some time, but, looking back, it's occurs to me these novels are both extremely cheesy and immensely satisfying, like...
Hi there Mythmasters! Know I'm late to the game, but I'm spending American Pre-Christmas Turkey Holiday home sick reading Mythic Scribe articles,...
