Art + Fiction from author Rick Wayne
It seems to me, fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism. The right word is not "banalizing", although in fact a little of this is involved. Rather, I mean that the effectiveness of a fantastic story will depend on its being told in the most simple and practical terms. Dino Buzzati (1906-1972) was …
Continue reading The high-literary surrealism of Dino Buzzati
In the beginning was the crisis. This is the singular belief that defines the religious history of our species, the insistence that this world, full of suffering -- where the race goes not to the swift nor bread to the hungry -- cannot be all there is, that there must be something more: a just …
Continue reading In the Beginning: a bird’s eye history of religion
This is the kind of song that, when I hear it, I wonder why the artist isn't famous. Dig that driving bass. Here is your soundtrack to tonight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKdruPxXb8g And here is the full ongoing playlist: https://bit.ly/2LUXo2L
"Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on." "She did not reassure him. She did not tell him he was like everyone else. She said, "I'll never know anyone like you again, Shev." All the same, a rejection …
Continue reading Selections from Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Dispossessed”
Even if you haven't heard of him before, if you've read a science fiction or fantasy novel or played a fantasy RPG in the last few decades, odds are you've seen work by British painter Peter Andrew Jones, whose career in science fiction and fantasy illustration spans more than forty years. His style, while most …
Continue reading The retro science fantasy art of Peter Andrew Jones
As far as we know, the alphabet was invented only once* -- in Phoenicia (covering modern-day Lebanon, Syria, and Israel). It spread and persisted because with it, you can render any word in any language. This is what the physicist David Deutsch called "the beginning of infinity" in his book of the same name. It …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Auufutrb-w Here is your soundtrack to tonight. And here is the full ongoing playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL64sdu9pXr6JDkjPG1-v3f2u6RpI_x2bm
