Brandon Sanderson has a LOT of fantasy books out, but the series I first encountered (and that Sanderson first became really well known for) is the Mistborn series. [Image source] The Mistborn books are

The few of you who read my blog regularly have probably noticed my infrequent posting the last couple months. I'm here to talk a little bit about what's been going on with that, and what my plans for the

Sorry for the long absence, just got done moving for the first time in over four years. The new place is awesome, but man was that a hassle and a half. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is one of the

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The Malazan Book of the Fallen is easily one of the weirdest- and biggest- of the giant epic fantasy series. There are ten books in the main series, as well as an additional six book side series, a couple

It's no secret that I'm a huge sucker for epic fantasy. Part of that is my reading speed- I read really, really fast, so most books are over just way too fast for my taste. A good epic fantasy series,

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Charles Stross' Laundry Files books are my single favorite series of spy thrillers, bar none. They're also my single favorite Lovecraftian horror series, bar none. I don't know what provoked Charles Stross

The character of any city will to a great degree be shaped by its underlying geology. Chicago's even, straight grid is possible thanks to its flat terrain. San Francisco's steep hills underlie much of

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Part 1, Part 2 There's a fantastic XKCD comic strip that discusses the relative "purity" of the sciences, ranking them with physics and math on top. And, indeed, in the history of the sciences,

Part 1, Part 2 As heavily as the damage humanity has wrought upon the oceans has changed the course of evolution, the damage on land has done even more to shift the path of evolution. (I really should

I grew up in a hippy family, so there were always weird left wing newspapers that ran Derf Backderf's comic The City in them. The stiffly drawn (but deceptively difficult) artstyle is immediately distinctive,

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John Soennichsen's book Bretz's Flood falls into that strange confluence that you often find in better quality histories of geology. It's hard to describe adequately, but it involves an intermixing of

N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy is some of the best fantasy I've read in years- and it's also unique in being geological fantasy. Geological science fiction is certainly common enough- Hal Clement's

In terms of sheer number of pages, Jeff Smith's all-ages comic Bone is by far the longest work I've ever recommended on Steemit- and it's more than worth reading all 1332 pages. Bone's won more awards

The results from our first week of Steem Lovecraftian goodness are here, you can check out the results in the comment section of last weeks post. Winners get 1 Steem, and a 100% upvote! So let's play round

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Ugh, I know, too many reposts. Life is crazy right now, what can I say? The Amazon river isn't just the biggest river on the Earth- it's the biggest river known throughout the entire geological history