Even though kings and queens are human beings like everybody else, they can’t always afford to seem like it. The New Worlds Patreon is taking a look at royal dignity and its role in maintaining a government — comment over there!
One ruler, that is. This week, the New Worlds Patreon starts taking a look at those monarchies you see so often in science fiction and fantasy. Comment over there!
One of my projects for 2021 is to start working my way through my backlist of BVC titles and get the majority* of them into print editions. That project starts now, with Maps to Nowhere!
It’s a slim little paperback, about the size of a novella, and you can get it now from Barnes and Noble, Book Depository, Bookshop.org (which, btw, has become one of my favorite places to order from — it’s the latest development in supporting independent bookstores), or Amazon US or UK. (Full disclosure: I get a commission from sales through the Amazon US link. Which is nice, but did I mention I really like Bookshop.org?)
The others will follow in due course — with the asterisk up above being that some titles (Never After, Monstrous Beauty) are too short for print editions, while others In London’s Shadow, The Doppelganger Omnibus) are too long. But the rest are Goldilocks-approved, and over the next year or so, I hope to roll them all out!
It being a fifth Friday, the New Worlds Patreon has a theory post for you! This week we’re looking at change over time, and the extent to which we may mis-perceive how fast and/or inevitable that is. Comment over there!
The April tour of the New Worlds Patreon through interpersonal violence wraps up with protection from same, in the form of bodyguards. Comment over there!
Would you beggar your kingdom to buy your king back? This week on the New Worlds Patreon, we take a look at hostages and ransoms. Comment over there!
In between the personal conflicts of individuals and the state-wide conflicts of wars, the New Worlds Patreon takes a look at feuds: long-running wars of retaliation (and sometimes escalation) between families and other such groups. Comment over there!
The lovely supporters of the New Worlds Patreon have opted for a bloody topic this month: interpersonal violence, i.e. the kind of thing we enact as individuals, rather than as part of an army. We start off with a look at the societal conditions that support or discourage that kind of thing, and how they’ve changed over time — comment over there!
As the New Worlds Patreon wraps up its tour through the literary arts, we’re taking a half-step to the side to look at the concept of copyright (and intellectual property more broadly). Comment over there!
In a show of appropriate timing (since I had to write several tanka and haiku for my short story “Speak to the Moon,” which came out this month), the New Worlds Patreon has moved on to the topic of poetry! Comment over there.
