30 Years

30 Years

By Jeanie Kortum, author of Ghost Vision and Stones Kenya, 1984. I first knew the cutting was close when the sun rose and the young girl who had been dancing all night, bleating through a whistle, was dragged across the clearing by an old woman and lowered to the...
The Quest for Hard Fantasy

The Quest for Hard Fantasy

By Tad Williams As someone who writes what I think of as “hard” fantasy — similar in purpose to “hard science fiction”, that is, with a strong emphasis on the possible — I research all the bloody time. I don’t believe you can make a working fantasy world in which most...