Forrest for the Trees

  I make no apologies for my love of post-apocalyptic roleplaying games. My first steady-playing of an RPG was not D&D, it was Gamma Wo...

  The Explosion of a Chandelier by Damian Murphy My rating: 5 of 5 stars Like any good sleight-of-hand, even the publisher name, "Oc...

  On Poetic Imagination and Reverie by Gaston Bachelard My rating: 5 of 5 stars How does such a slight book pack in so much insight? I th...

  Samalio Pardulus by Otto Julius Bierbaum My rating: 4 of 5 stars The word "transgressive" is a trite over-used, particularly ...

  First off, thank you to Thorin Thompson for this little magnetic wonder. For those not in the know, the musical genre known as "Dunge...

  Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany My rating: 4 of 5 stars The older I grow, the more I realize that my childhood might have been exceptional...

  Benjamin Tweddell has a gently diabolical touch. Whether it is the claustrophobic-um-ecstatic The Veneration at Polwheveral Manor or the ...