A way with worlds: 31 – Losing the Race by Steven Savage of Seventh Sanctum
Years ago, someone told me Star Trek was racist. This, of course, stunned me. The original series broke down barriers. It dealt with racism.…
Year: 2000
Personalised writing by Paul Escu
First off, literature is slower at conveying a message than, for example, the visual arts or music. It’s not so instant. When I started…
Interview with Michael Stackpole
Stormwolf (Michael A. Stackpole interviewed by Joshua fromhttp://www.scifihaven.com when they met at TusCon 27.) I saw Mr. Stackpole for the first time ten minutes after…
Doctoring the Tardis by Ebony McKenna
Known to many for its cheap sets, zippered costumes and sometimes questionable acting, Doctor Who was a show that defied its low budgets and…
Windkeeper by Charlotte Boyett-Compo
Windkeeper is a romance in a sword and sorcerer setting, (book one ofthe Windlegends Saga). The book is a reedited version, with additions,of the…
Interview with Robert Jordan
This Interview has been provided by Orbit, and is printed with their permission. Robert Jordan is the bestselling author of the Wheel of Time series.…
A way with worlds: 29 – Why are we doing this? by Steven Savage of Seventh Sanctum
A few columns ago, I wrote about “Timeline Based Writing, which works in the following way: It’s been nearly a year since I started…
A way with worlds: 28 – Timeline-Based Writing: The Critical Axis by Steven Savage of Seventh Sanctum
First of all, I’d like to announce that “Way With Worlds” just picked up another distributor! It’s available at the re-launched lit.org! Lit.org was…
Interview with Dave Cravens
Q: How did you come up with the idea of mixing fantasy, science fiction and the real world in the way that you have?…
Interview with Tara Harper
Q: For our readers who haven’t heard of yourbooks, how would you describe them, and which would you recommend first? The Wolfwalker books are…
Interview with Laurell K. Hamilton
This Interview has been provided by Orbit, and is printed with their permission. The Anita Blake series has had a fantastic reception in the UK…
Interview with Tad Williams
This Interview has been provided by Orbit, and is printed with their permission. While Tad is hard at work on the fourth and final volume…
Fantasy: Another Boys Club? by Carrie Badorek
When I was a young child I read everything I could get my hands on. I didn’t really understand the concept of genres, so…
Preternatural Too: Gyre by Margaret Wander Bonanno
An atypical time travel sci-fi, book two in Margaret Wander-Bonanno’s preternatural series stands on its own with new characters and a mystery to solve.…
Preternatural by Margaret Wander Bonanno
Karen Guerreri is a “midlist’ writer working on a first contact sci-finovel, Preternatural. She has borrowed her lifelong muse to play thepart of the…
A way with worlds: 26 – More Crime and Punishment by Steven Savage of Seventh Sanctum
Well the last column on crime, law, and punishment in one’s continuity generated the most feedback I’ve had period. Even more than the religion…
New Ideas for a New Century of SF by James Wittenbach
I have spent the last few weeks reading the stories in the Fiction Archive of this web-site. Some of them are actually quite good,…
Sleeper Awake by Bob Rich
Flora Fielding, a wealthy successful actress, is awakened after one thousand four hundred thirty three years in cryogenic storage. She had been frozen in…
Interview with Margaret Wander Bonanno
Q: When did you first know that you wanted to be a writer? A: When I was 10, I wrote a story about a…
A way with worlds: 25 – Crime and Punishment (and a lot of other stuff) by Steven Savage of Seventh Sanctum
One thing that can get overlooked in worldbuilding is legal systems. It’s easy to assume things are perfect, or corrupt, or “just like us,”…
