The Stories…

  • Avoid Sunken Ships

    It Might Just Save Your Life Years ago during a routine voyage, the SS Arcadia vanished without a trace. Sixty years later, it’s wreck has finally been discovered more than… Read more

  • The Expanse: Leviathan Wakes

    Jim Holden is an officer on an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the belt. When he and his crew stumble upon… Read more

  • Bother, I’m Bothered

    But Why? Since posting this article on the communities I haunt on reddit, I’ve had a fair few people ask why I bothered writing a response to the Mythcreants article… Read more

  • Issues, Issues

    It’s All Just A Case of History Repeating We are nearly at the end of Chris’s teaching article, and she’s evaluating the “opening overall,” as well as providing a lead… Read more

  • Causing Confusion

    Villains Don’t Have to Look Villainous I’m just jumping straight into this one, because I can’t really think of an appropriate introduction. A new voice spoke behind them, a woman’s,… Read more

  • Prologue Pep-Talks

    Persistently Pedantic I’ve already made it clear that I believe there’s something other than an objective analysis in the original article, and I’ve also mentioned several times that taking things… Read more

  • Curiouser & Curiouser

    Deliberate Disregard? Quite often in literature, the introduction throws readers into a situation that the have no knowledge of. Let’s face it. If you read a fantasy novel that immediately… Read more

  • Stigmas & Supposition

    Purpose and Predisposition CW: “It’s the storyteller’s job to communicate, not the reader’s job to figure things out.” As a reader, and an avid one at that, I don’t completely… Read more

  • Critiquing a Critique

    Mythcreants and Malazan When I began expanding my experiences of reading in the genre of fantasy in 2023, joining groups on Reddit, discovering new authors and ending up with far… Read more

  • Moves like Jagger

    It goes like this: My Dreams grew wings and fled.Soared away with mocking delight!The Churn – the Grind – Stole me away;and in the distant shadows, stillThey goad… Waiting for… Read more

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