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November 28, 2018
About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players in “The Wall Of Night” Series — Meet Gervon
USA
Last year, I resumed my “About the Characters” post series that focuses on the minor characters in The Wall Of Night series, because:
“I think it’s the presence of the smaller characters that “makes” a story, creating texture around the main points of view.”
Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from The Heir of Night, but now I’m continuing on with minor characters from both The Gathering Of The Lost and Daughter of Blo...
November 25, 2018
They’re All Fictional: A Shout-Out For Rebecca Fisher
Rebecca Fisher
You all remember Rebecca, right? Well, some of you may not if you’re new round here, but Rebecca did a Big Worlds On Small Screens column here for three and a half years, looking at SFF TV shows.
And even though studies and career intervened in terms of posting here, Rebecca has maintained her own They’re All Fictional blog throughout where she still checks out TV shows and books, and keeps her finger on the pulse of the wild, wacky, and sometimes even obscure weird of fictiona...
November 21, 2018
A Geography Of Haarth: River (Updated)
The Wall of Night Series map; design by Peter Fitzpatrick
A Geography of Haarth is a post series traversing the full range of gazetted locales and places from The Wall Of Night world of Haarth.
From January 25, 2013 to November 25, 2014, the series explored locations encountered in The Heir Of Night and The Gathering Of The Lost.
Now it’s back to traverse the geography of Daughter Of Blood (The Wall Of Night Book Three.) The new series comprises updates of previous entries as well as new lis...
A Geography Of Haarth: River
The Wall of Night Series map; design by Peter Fitzpatrick
A Geography of Haarth is a post series traversing the full range of gazetted locales and places from The Wall Of Night world of Haarth.
From January 25, 2013 to November 25, 2014, the series explored locations encountered in The Heir Of Night and The Gathering Of The Lost.
Now it’s back to traverse the geography of Daughter Of Blood (The Wall Of Night Book Three.) The new series comprises updates of previous entries as well as new lis...
November 18, 2018
Inside Middle Earth: Driving To Edoras
As it was in ‘The Two Towers’
One of the most striking sets/locales in the three The Lord Of The Rings movies was Edoras, the Golden Hall of the Rohirrim. I’ve always loved that first, wonderful view, with Eowyn of Rohan standing before the Hall and the pennant blowing away in the wind.
Although the set was removed after filming, the location is a few hours drive from where I live and accessible by road (although it’s unsealed gravel road for a reasonable distance), except for the last half h...
November 14, 2018
About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players in “The Wall Of Night” Series — Meet Garan (Updated)
Last year, I resumed my “About the Characters” post series that focuses on the minor characters in The Wall Of Night series, because:
“I think it’s the presence of the smaller characters that “makes” a story, creating texture around the main points of view.”
Although as noted in the original Garan entry, I do think it’s questionable whether he really qualifies as a “minor character” anymore. He is, after all, in all the books and a point of v...
November 11, 2018
The Quest For The Orange Cake Grail Continues
Fresh from the oven
On 1 October, I resumed my quest for the Holy Grail of orange cakes, i.e. an orange cake so good that it becomes my “go to” recipe thereafter.
In embarking on this quest, my yardstick is the orange cakes that were standard fare in Brisbane (Australia) eateries in the early to mid ’90s, when I used to visit there a lot.
Whatever their provenance, I can tell you it’s not one shared by NZ cafes and purveyors of cake goodness, hence the quest.
In the 1 October post I mentioned...
November 7, 2018
A Geography of Haarth: Rindle (Updated)
The Wall of Night Series map; design by Peter Fitzpatrick
A Geography of Haarth is a post series traversing the full range of gazetted locales and places from The Wall Of Night world of Haarth.
From January 25, 2013 to November 25, 2014, the series explored locations encountered in The Heir Of Night and The Gathering Of The Lost.
Now it’s back to traverse the geography of Daughter Of Blood (The Wall Of Night Book Three.) The new series comprises updates of previous entries as well as new l...
November 4, 2018
Remember, Remember, the 5th Of November…
BBC TV Series
Remember, Remember, the 5th Of November
Gunpowder, treason, and plot…
These are the opening lines of the famous gunpowder rhyme that commemorates the attempt to blow up Britain’s Houses of Parliament in 1605, an act of violence that we would term “domestic terrorism” in this day and age.
I am sure most of you know the basic story as well as I do, which was that the plot was conceived by a group of English citizens who professed the Roman Catholic religion and wished to restore...
October 31, 2018
About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players in “The Wall Of Night” Series — Meet Fray
UK/AU/NZ
Last year, I resumed my “About the Characters” post series that focuses on the minor characters in The Wall Of Night series, because:
“I think it’s the presence of the smaller characters that “makes” a story, creating texture around the main points of view.”
Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from The Heir of Night, but now I’m continuing on with minor characters from both The Gathering Of The Lost and Daughter...
