• An Update About Updates

    That is, my various attempts at self-promotion and improving the blog. I have mostly been working on the design of my blog, and then fixing the screw ups that happened while I was working on the design of the blog. I changed up the theme, accidentally deleted and then re-added some features, and messed around…

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    • Book Review: The Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia McKillip

      The Bards of Bone Plain combines ancient magic, music and archaeology into a slow, meandering story about the search for magic that turns out to have been there the entire time. The primary storyline involves a search for a place that may only exist in metaphor and legend, a princess who is more interested in…

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      • How to Socialize Your Aeriat (Fell): Little Wolf Who Cried Girl

        The first essay introduces some of the world building aspects of Martha Wells’ Books of the Raksura. The second essay provided some headcanons about how the proto-Aeriat and proto-Arbora came together to form the Raksura. (It also reiterated several points made in the first essay, and covered in part the differences between Fell and Raksura…

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        • How to Socialize Your Aeriat: Imprinting and Husbandry

          The first essay in this series introduced the concept of ring species and detailed some of the basic worldbuilding of the Books of  the Raksura setting. Some comparisons to Jennifer Roberson’s Chronicles of the Cheysuli were made to address the way the Fell appear to be a “alignment: evil” species. The reasoning being, that the…

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          • Book Review: Hammerfall, by C.J. Cherryh

            I read Hammerfall when it first came out in hardback. Our Hero is Marak Trin Tain, a warrior who finds himself in a mass of people being herded to “the holy city.” He is one of a group of people who have been infected by a peculiar madness that “the Ila” the immortal ruler of…

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