Category: State of the Genre

On Bankrupt Nihilism - or Some Such Nonsense

Leo Grin (over at Big Hollywood) doesn't care for "gritty" fantasy. So he wrote an article. In that article, he stuck his nondescript, attention-whore thumb into modern fantasy's pie and pulled out a fat, juicy, "look at me" plum. Bankrupt nihilism indee… more »

Where Are the New Authors of Stand-Alone Speculative Fiction Hiding?

I often go on scavenger hunts for new reading material that take me to the ends of the internet and back. I rarely come back with an "arm-load of books". Why, you say? Because I'm a snobbish connoisseur whose tastes are far more refined than the average… more »