By 70 sexes I mean the current list of sexes in addition to male and female. I’ve read the list, most of which go from ridiculous to preposterous...
Many good points, but it must be stated that the European medieval period is a very solid convention for fantasy in general, so what’s important...
She stooped and entered, her light stabbing before her. The tunnel led straight for almost fifty feet before intersecting crosswise another even...
Her open eye saw white and purple phantoms everywhere, and she resisted the temptation to open her left. She scarcely noticed that the...
[ATTACH] The unmerciful sun made the valley floor shimmer and dance. She wiped the sweat from her brow, and winced at the pain in her sunburnt...
In addition to novels I have written a few short stories set in the world of the Sundered Spheres, so I thought I might share a few of them, as...
Thing is, there are few enough books with an Elf or a Dwarf as the protagonist. Part of Tolkien's genius was setting the Hobbits, the actual...
I haven’t come close to it yet, but I think a truly alien world as a fantasy setting could become the apotheosis of fantasy. It’s important in...
Edward I Longshanks started trying to outlaw all sport except the longbow, and English longbows were the key to the English victories at Crecy and...
I start with the cosmology and then design the religions to fit. While there are several religions based on lies, most are set around real...
While my work so far wouldn’t be considered science fantasy, it does have that potential because in the Sundered Spheres magic IS science and...
The monsters in my book Fortunes Rising came from a dream I had in 2005. I woke up shivering and wrote descriptions and sketched them quickly....
Hi! My name is James Wilson, and I’m thinking about using a different version of my name because it’s so common in English. It’s even on the...
I finished my first novel at 16, and have written 23 so far. Several of them will never be seen by any other human being, but some make me rather...
I agree completely, but it has to be learned. It’s no easy matter to overcome the prejudice one absorbs with mother’s milk. It’s one reason I...
In one of the realms in my Sundered Spheres, the punishment for rape is to be cast into the sea with a water-breathing spell and a sort of watery...
One of the things that we read backward into earlier times, including data at settings, is a casual attitude toward sex. TV and movie versions...
Xenophobia and tribalism is the normal and natural state of humanity. It has to be overcome, and can be. Racism has to be taught. People used...
David Drake’s Belisarius Saga Sprague de Camp ‘Lest Darkness Fall’ Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Chronicles (sorta dark ages I guess) Conn Igulden’s...
In the Sundered Spheres the eleven Great Drathons are mammalian, gigantic and vastly wise and astonishingly powerful. However every generation of...
