Because today is Jim Macdonald’s birthday, we drove down to Littleton, NH, to the Little Grill, a Brazilian restaurant whose food Jim – who’s been to Brazil, because during his youth his dad worked there for several years – vouches for. (One of the co-owners has Brazilian roots; how he or she ended up in […]
DOYLE Worldbuilding Within Epic Fantasy at the Dawn of a Modern Age Format: Panel 14 Feb 2020, Friday 17:00 – 17:50, Marina 1 (Westin) Fantasy is real, but so is scientific discovery. When an epic fantasy is set during the transition from a rural society to an emerging, world-transforming industrial age, how does the setting […]
The overnight low in our back yard was -27°F (that’s -32.8° Celsius, for those of you in metric climes.) It was so cold in our kitchen that the water in our teakettle froze. So cold, that taking the trash to the dump sounded like a good idea because it meant we could drive around in […]
