Complaining about bad physics in time travel movies is pointless (but good fun afterwards), but there's a character reaction that always breaks my suspension of disbelief.

There's a trope in time travel stories where the viewpoint character jumps back into to their own body, changes the past, and then returns to their body in present day. They ( Read more... )

The story begins with a group of villagers who are forced to flee their sleepy fishing village. It has been destroyed by a god of the deep. Not in act of wrath, but by an inadvertent tsunami. They regroup at a inn, just out of range of the the waves. Taking up passage with a travelling circus they slowly make their way across the plains to the ( Read more... )

Dr. Mark Slone gets drawn into the lives of two children when he hears their medication has been replaced by spoonfuls of sugar by their au pair. When he gets to the house he finds the children are missing and the living room is covered in soot. He heads up to the roof tops where:

Poll Dick

I had to get this out of my brain lest it turn into DVD/DVD slash ( Read more... )

The other day the Google blog observed that "fewer teens are wearing watches now because they use their phones to tell time instead"

I'd been wondered about that myself a while ago. Fortunately I knew an author who was looking explain, the mythology of mobile phones and other modern fairy talesI don't normally read Fantasy, but I really enjoyed ( Read more... )