Fantastic, original worldbuilding is the main draw of this fantasy novel set in a world in which the ice age didn’t completely go away, cold mages try to squelch steampunk technology, humans share America with intelligent feathered “trolls” who appear to have evolved from dinosaurs, and the main cultural influences on Europe are West African, ( Read more... )

This post was not only prompted by a remarkably stupid NY Times review of the "Game of Thrones" TV series, in which the reviewer thought the story was a polemic against global warming, claimed that women don't like fantasy, and further claimed that women do love sex, so the sex was gratuitously crammed in to please them ( Read more... )