Les Misérables Author: Victor Hugo, 1862 (tr. Norman Denny) Publisher: Penguin Classics System: System-neutral/free-form Setting: French...

Having just finished Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind , a Christmas present, I can see why it's such a divisive novel. It's a shar...

Let's define "autonomous fantasy": a work about a world not our own, without attempting within the text to place the created w...

This article  in the website of record -- the New York Times -- uses the generic form "D&D" but I have to give special props t...

Of all the reactions to 5th D&D Basic I find this one most intriguing - that the cultural reference point in the game has shifted from ...

The stories of John Cheever are said to epitomize late 20th Century middle-class life in New York and its suburbs. But he's got much mor...

I was going to do some writing -- about some people's resistance to my identification of gaming aesthetics as kitsch , about how it mig...

As a teen I read Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions but never got around to its slightly later-written companion volume, The ...

Reading someone's list of th e top 13 new and forthcoming fantasy novels -- most of which appear to involve white male antiheroes caugh...

Happy 40th birthday, D&D! The world's oldest fantasy adventure role-playing game?  Yes, but ... most of the world doesn't know a...

By chance, Michael Bukowski of  Yog-Blogsoth  has reached a stopping point in illustrating the creatures of H. P. Lovecraft's imaginatio...

Inspired by Appendix N fever, I recently picked up and read Sterling Lanier's Hiero's Journey (1973), which I'd never read befor...

This has been going on for some time without the OSR seeming to take notice ... but Tor books is deep into an appreciation of the Appendix N...

The first AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide, as grognards well know, contains the touchstone Appendix N, in Frazetta cover, 1964 whic...

William Hope Hodgson was an early 20th century imaginative writer whose fictions often show up on old-school gamers' "Appendix N...

It seems that whenever people discuss the appropriateness of D&D or whatever other roleplaying system to a fictional genre - sword &...

Look, I'm not expecting D&D module writers to be Hermann Hesse. I'm not even ... sheesh, OK, let me back up here. This is abou...

Seeing the first novel in Jack Vance's Planet of Adventure series put up for free download in the USA , I'm reminded of how importan...