In a world scarred by indiscriminate bombing, forced starvation, and mass displacement, a nameless survivor lies crushed beneath the rubble of a bombing—alive, but barely.

A shadowed tale about brothers, blood magic and bad blood

So much of foundational fantasy is about the (often imperial) core versus outside territories.

Zachary Gillan I have been thinking, for obvious reasons, about living in a world of reactionary politics, and about the political valences of the irreal, and about ARB’s insistence upon the radica…

Case Files of the Supernatural and Fantastic

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