Infernal adventuring...
A short story of mine was just rejected by a SF/Fantasy magazine. Along with the usual form rejection I was lucky enough to receive some feedback, and one of their points was that my sentences are too long. Yes, they directly said that! I have always assumed that sentence length was a matter of style. [ ]
I am currently working through a Warhammer 4th Edition Enemy Within campaign, and am finally beginning to get annoyed with the combat rules. I am playing online using Foundry, which handles all the fiddliness of success levels (ugh!) and critical rolls and the like, so it s relatively smooth, but I imagine if I were playing [ ]
I have been reading The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire by Chris Kempshall, in hopes of learning something new about the sprawling creative failure that is the Star Wars universe. I think it s going to be a Did Not Finish (DNF) for me, because it s boring and completely unenlightening, but I thought I [ ]
Here at the Faustusnotes Academy we re big fans of the signifiers of elite culture, mixed martial arts (MMA) in particular, which means we have to bring all our analytical tools to work on UFC Freedom 250. That s right folks, I watched this fascist slop so you don t have to, and I m going to give you [ ]
On the 28th May 2026 the New Glenn rocket exploded on its landing pad, in what may have been the largest non-nuclear explosion in human history. Along with the rocket itself the explosion took out a lightning tower, the launch tower, and a bunch of associated equipment. This was the only launch pad in the [ ]
[Stalin] should have gone further still. Then Hitler wouldn t have reached the Volga. General Gudz, Life and Fate Having just finished Vassily Grossman s The People Immortal, and angered by my criticisms of its translators, I tried to find books in English about Operation Barbarossa that were written by Soviet historians. Unfortunately I could only find [ ]
I have begun reading Vasily Grossman s The People Immortal, his story of an encircled Soviet army formation written in the summer of 1942. Although it was his first novel from the war, I have only come to it after reading Stalingrad (originally published as For a Just Cause in 1952) and Life and Fate, which [ ]
To a young woman or a gender critical activist the current wave of anti-transgender panic may seem like a new and original trend in gender politics. It might feel like a once-in-a-lifetime crisis (or opportunity, depending on the side of this debate you ve picked), something which perhaps if you weather it you will never have [ ]
This review is a little overdue because I had a bad sense that this movie was going to be bad, and I wanted to wait till it was on TV and I didn t have to go through the same horrors and exertions as I went through for the first instalment of this duology. So, I [ ]
“Was it a mistake to freeze the djinn?” Al Hamra asked, flinching a little as a bullet struck the air hockey table he was hiding behind. The whine of gunfire echoed around the sumptuous lounge, and something valuable cracked loudly in the ricochet from the gunshot. Al Hamra winced and touched a thin, dark-skinned hand [ ]