We’ve certainly come a long way since Blaise Pascal invented the calculator in the 17th century. Newton discovered that apples and anvils descend upon toads at the same speed. Franklin incinerated an unnamed assistant ...

Are you aware how modern literary artists have brutalized fantasy by duping the public with elaborate lies about living people and passing them off as true stories? Did you know that Hollywood ...

Any fanatic of J.R.R. Tolkien knows that he was a Roman Catholic, but the question has been raised about how this was portrayed, if ever, in his fantasy epic.

An initial glance at "Fellowship of the Rings" indicates that the world of Middle-Earth is polytheistic ...

Science fiction and fantasy writers all have different methods for creating their worlds and people and getting them on paper, whether they set a special time of the day to write or a set number of pages to fill. I try and be at my desk ...

Most fiction is about a battle between Good and Evil. The Evil may be a sadistic schoolteacher or Adolf Hitler, but this is still Evil, and it is balanced by a protagonist who presumably seeks to overcome it. Fantasy is richer and deeper than reality, its blacks more black and its whites more brilliantly white than any black-and-white we know in our world. Here, ...