Wow. It has been a while since my last update. Has so much time really slipped by ( Read more... )

George R.R. Martin is one of my favorite authors; his epic fantasy series Song of Fire and Ice is one of the more realistic in the genre in how it handles magic with subtlety and focuses on character development and adult issues. This skill and poise was completely absent from the first short story in his collection Dreamsongs. But after reading ( Read more... )