BotNS Archaisms for Your TTRPG

Just read a great little post over at Throne of Salt all about generating a scenario for a TTRPG adventure set in Severian’s world of The Book of the New Sun. He created a d30 table of Unexplained Archaisms and a really clever way to get PCs started that uses the story-telling contest from Citadel of the Autarch that takes place in the Pelerine’s field hospital.

Matthew Keely on Gene Wolfe

In the first of what appears to be a series of posts on Gene Wolfe, Matthew Keely writes about approaching the author’s work and the author himself for the first time. Matthew gives us an interesting and personal perspective on Wolfe and I look forward to the next installment of this series over at Tor.com

Read the post here.

Swanwick on How To Read Wolfe

Another great post by Michael Swanwick over at Flogging Babel in honor of Gene Wolfe’s birthday. He shares the essay he wrote for the special Gene Wolfe issue of Science Fiction & Fantasy back in 2007.