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Want more of Xervish Flydd?
One Throw of the Die A novelette from my Three Worlds Anthology, A Wizard's War and Other Stories, available in ebook now, and in print late this year, hopefully. Spoiler alert! If you haven’t read my epic fantasy quartet The Well of Echoes, and intend to, you should do so before reading One Throw of the Die, since it begins…
How I Write – and How it's Changed
Another frequently asked question, so I've reposted it from Civilian Reader of a couple of years ago, with revisions. I’m not sure when I had the idea of writing a fantasy novel, though I first acted on it in 1977 after reading Terry Brooks’ The Sword of Shannara. (I met Terry for the first time at Supanova Melbourne in 2018, and…
What are the glyphs, anyway?
Even after twenty years, people still ask about the 33 'runes' around the covers of the original four books of The View from the Mirror, which are the same as the symbols around the border of the mysterious, dangerous and deceitful ancient artefact, the Mirror of Aachan. But they're not runes, they're glyphs, and part the syllabary of an ancient…
Three Worlds Timeline
For many years now people have been asking about the Histories of Santhenar, and more detail on the key events (some mentioned in my Three Worlds books, others not) that have shaped both Santhenar, Tallallame and Aachan over the past ten thousand years and more. I've gone through the books and my notes, some dating back more than 30 years,…
Do Research on my Books – or Speculative Fiction
If anyone is interested in undertaking university research or study of my books, or SF/fantasy in general, Fisher Library at The University of Sydney has all the drafts of every one of my 29 books, plus my shorter stories and articles, plus all my other writing papers and correspondence from the past 25 years – and I'm currently preparing the latest…