THE SHADOW CONSPIRACY: Tales of the Steam Age goes live today! Book View Press released this collection of all-new, never before seen steampunk tales. Set in a world powered by steam and magic, where FRANKENSTEIN was no mere fiction, these … Continue reading
Daily Archives: December 15, 2009
In the last year of her life, Marion Zimmer Bradley began work on a new Darkover novel set in the time period between The World Wreckers and Exile’s Song. It focused on one of her favorite characters, Regis Hastur. … Continue reading
As someone who recently gained access to the OED online, I can share that this is correct – an illegitimate child is the original, first usage of the word “bastard.” To wit: 1297 R. GLOUC. 295 Of Fulke blode Wyllam bastard com. Fulke, of course, seems to be the 13th century guy of like mind to Tiger Woods!
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