Against The Wicked City

In this plain there are a number of villages and towns which have lofty walls of mud, made as a defence against the banditti,  who are very ...

Khan's palace, Kokand, Uzbekistan. There are dozens of cities strung out along the four-thousand-mile length of the Great Road, and...

The Great Road is four thousand miles long. It winds across hills and steppe and deserts; it passes through golden cities and holy cities a...

So, in my last post, I described the Plains of Rust: an area of the steppe which was once a battleground between ancient armies of clockwork...

Image from Didier Graffet . His art is great and you should really check it out. In ages past, this otherwise-unprepossessing stretch of...

Recently, after receiving some very heavy hints, my sisters bought me a copy of Fire on the Velvet Horizon as a birthday present. It lo...

(A spiritual companion-piece to ' Bronze Gods of the Frog-Men '. And, yes, I know that scarab beetles don't actually build hives...