Tag Archives: Steven Erikson

Happy Lord of the Rings Day

Posted on March 25, 2025 by

I recently started reading a book entitled The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay. It is historical fiction, immaculately detailed, with three excellent protagonists surrounded by a band of almost as admirable allies navigating a middle-era Spain in which three powerful … Continue reading →

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The idea of doing right by the US

Posted on March 4, 2025 by

After US troops withdrew from Afghanistan after two decades in 2021, the Taliban returned to power. In its oppressive regime many groups of people, but especially women, girls, and minorities, have lost most of their civil rights. In this time, … Continue reading →

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Happy Lord of the Rings Day

Posted on March 25, 2024 by

War is on all our minds these days. There is a war happening in Ukraine and something barely resembling a war (because it’s a genocide) in Gaza. Governments have been fond of casting our collective responses – such as they … Continue reading →

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Lord of the Rings Day

Posted on March 25, 2023 by

Happy Lord of the Rings Day. 🙂 About a week ago, I began rereading book 7 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. This followed my realisation earlier this year that I had somehow lost the ability to read … Continue reading →

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The names of our dragons

Posted on November 12, 2021 by

The first piece of very-popular epic fantasy fiction I read was J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth saga, which, among many things, reminded me how much the American and British writers of ‘high fantasy’ owed the ancient mythologies of the people of … Continue reading →

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Lord of the Rings Day

Posted on March 25, 2020 by

A happy Lord of the Rings Day to you! (Previous editions: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014) Every year I pen a commemorative piece about Lord of the Rings, and share something about the books and films that I think about … Continue reading →

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The calculus of creative discipline

Posted on October 27, 2019 by

Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building. World-building is dull. World-building literalises the urge to invent. World-building gives an unnecessary permission for acts of writing (indeed, for acts of reading). World-building numbs … Continue reading →

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Happy Lord of the Rings Day!

Posted on March 25, 2018 by

The Malazan Book of the Fallen fantasy series exhibited a rabid yet desirable iconoclasm, through which its author Steven Erikson elucidated every trope of epic fantasy and then shit on it. I came out of reading the series feeling like … Continue reading →

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Happy Lord of the Rings Day

Posted on March 25, 2017 by

On this day, let’s read a chapter or two from the trilogy and remember what an enlightening experience reading the books was. Continue reading →

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Some notes and updates

Posted on July 5, 2016 by

Four years of the Higgs boson, live-tweeting and timezones, new music, and quickly reviewing an Erikson book. Continue reading →

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