Tag: Trilogy

2025-07-28—Bartimaeus (Amulet of Samarkand, Golem’s Eye)

Let’s throw back to the early 2000s today. Remember Bartimaeus? The Bartimaeus Trilogy is an alternate history, fantasy YA series by Jonathan Stroud. Since it’s an alternate history (and events are often moved around and reinterpreted in that genre), I’m not confident about the exact years the books take place in, but for general context…

July 28, 2025
2025-05-13—Proofs, After Moses: Prodigal, Marlin on Conclusions and Canon, Olney on New Stories

Get yourselves settled in for a long one. After I provide my writing updates, I’ve got a review for After Moses: Prodigal in the pipeline, musings on deathbed repentance as a story element (I hate it), and I’m entering into conversation with two other blogs on articles/essays they’ve posted. Yeah, I know, insane. I disappear…

May 13, 2025
2025-03-07—Some Really Weird Fiction (Annihilation), AI Again

As a write this, a two-year-old is screaming in my ear because it’s quiet time and she wants to be anything but. Let’s see how this goes. As for my writing updates, I think I’ll bullet-point it this time: Bloggyness Review—Annihilation Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer, is a sci-fi/cosmic horror/”new weird” novel originally published in 2014.…

March 7, 2025
2023-03-13—Episode VI: Return of the Bloggyness

The Failed Technomancer and Other Writing Projects First bit of great news out of last week: I finished up on The Failed Technomancer‘s proofs! Now, so far as I am aware, that just means I need to wait for the files to be finalized and sent to me, than I can go and slap them…

March 13, 2023