Tag Archives: Roman Empire
Dark Fantasies
Tonight’s post is a review of another short story collection by Misha Burnett, Dark Fantasies. It contains stories set in fantasy worlds inspired by HP Lovecraft, Ancient Rome, medieval Europe, and 1930s/40s America. I didn’t read the first two stories, “A Hill of Stars” and “In the Gloaming O My Darling”, as I had read […]
Magazine: Kzine #16
Kzine issue 16 I’m one of three gunfighters in a Mexican standoff, arranged in a triangle. Our only spectator in this western ghost town is an unarmed flute player, watching from the roof of the saloon. He plays his instrument. Tootely toot … toot toot toot. To my left is my nemesis, Talking Chicken. She […]
Setting: Galactic Empire, part 1
A while ago, I decided I wanted to read some science fiction about a galaxy-spanning empire. I briefly browsed Amazon’s kindle offerings under “galactic empire”, but all I found was military sci-fi where the galaxy-spanning nature of the empire wasn’t a major element in the story. Thinking back to classic sci-fi, I’m only coming up […]
Planetary Defense Command 