I just watched the latest post-apocalypse offering, the first episode of the television series Revolution. They’re giving us a future with lots of swords, crossbows, horses, bad-guy militias, and no electricity (though someone’s secretly holding out on that, so stay tuned). It got me thinking about some of the others in this ‘shit’s hit …
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Aug 22
The Wall
Let’s face it: being a writer is like having homework every day for the rest of your life, someone once said. Homework has gone from pencils and pens to typewriters to laptops, but a few things haven’t changed. One is the tyranny of the rectilinear blankness staring you in the face, whether it’s a …
Jul 06
Muselair?
It’s one of those names fantasy writers like to use (often too much; I’m guilty of that) instead of a contemporary word—like study, office or library—that might break the spell, setting a reunion of old questing elves in Poughkeepsie, for instance, to mangle Ursula LeGuin’s well-known aphorism. It’s a place where you go to reflect …
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A Beast In The Ruins
A Beast In The Ruins is an 8,000-word story set in the same Six Kingdoms world as his novels The Shadow of His Wings, The Mace of Souls and Pass on the Cup of Dreams.
It begins: “Old age sometimes carries with it the urge to confess to secrets accumulated over the years. I have only one: I murdered my brother. I had no hand in his death, nor did I ask anyone else to do what I could not. I never wished him dead even after we were estranged. You may think this a riddle. It is not. I did kill him. To understand why, you must come back with me to the day he and I met the Bell Boys…”
The Six Kingdoms Codex
The Six Kingdoms Codex, is a 55-page companion volume to Bruce's fantasy novels The Shadow of His Wings, The Mace of Souls and Pass on the Cup of Dreams.
In it you’ll find a story written exclusively for the Codex; an extensive glossary and background material to the Six Kingdoms world; and a color map by cartographer Pieter Talens.