Nicholas Royle’s Diet Column: Viewing the World Through Mud-Spattered Spectacles
Since I’m in such a lousy mood this issue, here are some of my pet [...]
Writing
Desert Island Books: Tad Williams
I am assuming (perhaps erroneously) that the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare are provided, as in the radio program. If not, I’m afraid I would have to [...]
Of Sprouts and Men: Robert Rankin Interviewed
After having held “some forty-two or forty-three” different jobs over the period of his life, Robert Rankin settled down to being a writer. Nancy Sparling went [...]
Prequel Power: Terry Brooks on First King of Shannara
Bestselling author Terry Brooks reveals the background to First King of [...]
Rob’s Life: a Profile of Robert McCammon
By Matt Williams ‘My key word is hope; I think there’s hope in any situation.’ (Robert McCammon in Fear, Nov/Dec 1988, p.27) The Kings, the Herberts, the [...]
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
John Clute interviewed by David J. Howe. On April 3 1997, Little Brown published a book which was possibly the most important Fantasy work to see print since Tolkien first [...]