Philip Athans > Recent Status Updates

"In reality there is one reason, and one reason only, that readers get excited about a novel: great storytelling. That’s it. End of story."

Less than a fortnight later we left the last hint of polar land behind us, and thanked heaven that we were clear of a haunted, accursed realm where life and death, space and time, have made black and blasphemous alliances in the unknown epochs since matter first writhed and swam on the planet's scarce-cooled crust.

This is what a Lovecraftian sentence looks like!

Francis Bacon on everyone who works for or supports Donald Trump:

And certainly it is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set a house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs; and yet these men many times hold credit with their masters, because their study is but to please them and profit themselves; and for either respect they will abandon the good of their affairs.

Wow… so far, The Kar-Chee Reign is at least as good as Rocannon's World!

I might be over-seriesing myself, but what the hell…