Darkly

August 15, 2023

The artist Dark Crayon, who last year did a fine cover for the Czech edition of Hardwired, now provides this cover for Voice of the Whirlwind‘s Czech edition. The title has been shortened to Whirlwind, which is appropriate, I think, for all it loses the Biblical reference. Find it wherever fine books are sold (near […]

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Unspam

August 10, 2023

So today some Russian spambot dropped 257 spam into random topics on this blog. (How do I know the spammers were Russian? Many of the spam were in Cyrillic.) Fortunately WordPress puts posts from strangers into a single “pending” file, so I was able to spend half an hour or so dealing with them. What […]

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Ancient Eyes

August 6, 2023

This is a photo of a reconstruction of a Neanderthal boy. Hair and eye color were derived from DNA found in the boy’s jaw. You can’t tell from the photo, but the jaw is quite small. The exhibit didn’t tell me how old the boy was when he died, or if any of his other […]

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William’s Brain

July 30, 2023

Monreale Cathedral— more formally Cattedrale di Santa Maria Nuova di Monreale; Duomo di Monreale— is a look into the mind of King William the Good, who built the place. I can see why a life of war and conquest didn’t suit him. This colossal building is a fantasia, a kind of theme park tour of […]

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Rock the Bosporus

July 29, 2023

Ayçe Sicimoǧlu rocks out on a classic. Feel free to give it a listen.

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Bundle Time!

July 27, 2023

The Science Fiction Writers of America have put out another novelbundle, and I am once more included! This time it’s fantasy. There’s something about fantasy that never fails to thrill readers of all ages and backgrounds. Stories filled with magical creatures, wizards, romance, and adventures, both big and small, continue to cast spells over our […]

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Rain in the Opera

July 26, 2023

The Duomo in Palermo was built at the command of William II the Good. (William was the son of William I the Bad. Father William doesn’t seem to have been particularly bad, as medieval monarchs go. He seems to have acquired his monicker because he had a tendency to promote competent commoners over the heads […]

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In A Parallel World Near Yours

July 25, 2023

Lots of stuff going on in the world of Wild Cards. A new original anthology, Pairing Up, has been published here in the US. I’m not in it, but these guys are: “Trudy of the Apes”   KEVIN ANDREW MURPHY“Cyrano d’Escargot”  CHRISTOPHER ROWE“In the Forests of the Night”   MARKO KLOOS“The Wounded Heart”    MELINDA M. SNODGRASS“Echoes From […]

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Loving Couple

July 17, 2023

From the National Museum in Reggio Calabria, a rare double burial dating from either the Paleolithic or Mesolithic, or maybe the boundary between the two. The two were buried in a cave. The man’s left arm is around the woman’s shoulders, and the woman rests her head on the man’s shoulder. I can imagine the […]

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The Best Peste!

July 12, 2023

Cover by Aurélien Police of the forthcoming French edition of The Green Leopard Plague, translated by Jean-Daniel Brèque. Pretty cool, no?

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