Monthly Archives: November 2013
The Story Behind Monsters of the Earth
Written for Upcoming4.Me [online magazine] Posted 30 October 2013. The Books of the Elements combine Roman culture with regional myths, but I don’t mean regional religions. I’m building on African backgrounds and folktales in Monsters of the Earth, but there … Continue reading
Newsletter #77
NEWSLETTER #77: November 3, 2013 Dear People, Two months ago I said I had a direction on the plot for Air and Darkness, the final novel in the Books of the Elements fantasy series for Tor. The plotting has proceeded, … Continue reading
Dinosaurs & a Dirigible
This is a compilation of my five time-travel novelettes, published by Baen, September 2014. The four Henry Vickers dinosaur-hunting stories have never been published together (which is odd now that I think about it). The dirigible comes from Travellers, a … Continue reading
Halloween Spider
The Natural World of the Drake Residence As a kid I was very frightened by spiders and insects, and even as an adult I don’t like them very much. For that reason I make a point of not smashing them … Continue reading
Genetic pose
I have always had a suspicion that Lamarck was correct: that the giraffe wished so hard that he had a longer neck which could reach higher leaves on the acacia tree that his descendents were born with incrementally longer necks. … Continue reading