The Ramshackle Vampire

Those of us who grew up in the era of tabletop role-playing games often find that the scenes and characters those games created occupy more...

In my youth I rarely encountered the idea or practice of alternate history. The alt-history storytelling tradition remained an obscure subse...

Scifi readers appreciate good writing as much as anyone, but usually give it lower priority than what they call “ a sense of wonder:” a w...

Ask any literate person to name the most influential fantasy writer of the twentieth century, and she will likely reply "J.R.R. Tolkien...

Metagaming's Microgame series , which began with a now-classic sci-fi wargame , quickly expanded to include the realms of fantasy. The c...

Reviewing my last post on Sandman and Stone Cold , I recalled a game that my fellow comic-book fans* and I enjoyed playing in the earl...