Year: 2024

Who Wants to Live Forever?

About forty years ago, I wrote a short story exploring the idea of immortality. The main character (a kind of everyman — or everywoman in this case) does a favour to a supernatural being who, in gratitude, offers to make her immortal. As she’s a bit unsure what to...

Poetry Thunderdome podcast!

 Here's something fun that you may have missed!Last month I had a chance to participate in Deborah L. Davitt's Shining Moon podcast with a group of other speculative poets. We talked about poetry and our paths with writing it, and the central focu......

Poetry Thunderdome podcast!

 Here's something fun that you may have missed!Last month I had a chance to participate in Deborah L. Davitt's Shining Moon podcast with a group of other speculative poets. We talked about poetry and our paths with writing it, and the central focu......

Empires, Evil and Otherwise

You don’t have to travel far within either fantasy or science fiction before you trip over an empire. If anything, in fact, they’re even more prevalent in SF than in fantasy, from the empire of the Klingons and the one that strikes back to the enemies of the Foundation...

Hanging Out With the Kids — Recent YA Fantasy TV

In general, the best stories don’t have an upper age limit, and this fact has been traditionally recognised in fantasy more than most genres. The Hobbit, the Chronicles of Narnia, His Dark Materials — they were all published as children’s books, and the all-ages phenomenon of Harry Potter put...