Tag Archive | "Literature"
Go Mutants! A retro-future, teen angst, mutant love story
Go Mutants! arrived on my doorstep not to long ago and I was, on opening the package, immediately struck by two facts. Fact #1 - James Dean with a giant brain and no hair. Fact #2 - Oh my god I never new it but I've been waiting for this book for years! If I had to describe this book in one word, I'd use the word "romp" because that's what it is. Like a happy puppy it runs through B-movie camp, teen angst, singing the blues like you mean it and countless references to the pop culture of a bygone age.
Continue reading...Reviews & Ideas: Abraham Lincoln – Vampire Hunter
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Using novels to spark imagination and develop questions for RPG world-building.
Continue reading...The Shattered Glass Project – Jess Hartley, her readers and nothing in between
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Jess Harley is a familiar name to many gamers and has an impressive resume when it comes to designing and writing for the RPG industry and can also be heard on the Pulp Gamer Out of Character podcast. She's also recently launched the Shattered Glass project.
Continue reading...Here there be monsters! Speculative Fiction authors make beasts.
Friday, April 23, 2010
What do you get if you take some of the masters of speculative fiction and ask them to create non-existent creatures? You get some pretty freaking awesome creatures, that's what!
Continue reading...Stories with Meaning
Friday, March 12, 2010
In order to create a believable world, in which characters do more than simply hack and slash, some study and research will always be needed. In fact, to create the most effective game world possible, as much effort could be required as penning a novel. Penning a novel, however, need not be done from scratch – authors do tend to have a “toolbox” of useful story elements handy to make their jobs easier.
Continue reading...Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
When I saw this book in my library, I immediately picked it up, and proceeded to blast through it in about two days. Though the book is not primarily about “gaming geeks” in a way that I was originally hoping for, it still offers an interesting trip through many avenues of fantasy fandom.
Continue reading...Peter Straub’s A Dark Matter (book) sounds great, gave birth to this video
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
I've read a few Straub books and I've never been disappointed. His newest, A Dark Matter is hitting the shelves on February 9th. It sounds really interesting in that four high school friends each recount a supernatural event to a journalist friend of theirs, many years after. Each retelling is a bit different from the others but all suggest that the event in question may be responsible for not only the downturns in their lives, but in the world at large. Click through for the trailer.
Continue reading...EA and Del Ray and Dante team up to go to Hell
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
In what I can only describe as a slight blow to literature everywhere but an interesting opportunity for literate gamers, Dante’s Inferno is being republished. In book form. By Electronic Arts. Oh, with Del Ray (ne Ballantine ne Random House) doing the bulk of the dead tree work. Don’t worry though, the fine folks who [...]
Continue reading...The Shield, Sword, And Crown: Great Fantasy Without the Elves
Friday, November 27, 2009
These are the best young adult (the jacket recommends the book for ages 8-12, though I would recommend it for anyone 8-120) fantasy books I have read since Artemis Fowl or Harry Potter. I would hasten to add, however, that the trilogy is meant for more than just fans of fantasy/sci-fi, as the fantasy elements are extremely subtle, especially in the first two books. It is fantasy like the Princess Bride is fantasy, good clean fun for everybody.
Continue reading...Sandman Slim a magic noir revenge novel that contains no effing elves
Friday, August 28, 2009
Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim kicks ass. I mean, the protagonist literally left the text and physically kicked me in my ass. Yeah, it’s that much fun. James Stark spent 11 years killing monsters in Lucifer's arena for the entertainment of fallen angels, but now he's back in seedy, magic-riddled L.A., trying to avenge his girlfriend's murder and hunt down Mason Faim, the black magician responsible for getting him sent downtown. After that it really starts to get interesting.
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