Category: News
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The Lab Reawakens
For two years, the Lab has been asleep, dreaming. Now, it’s awake again. New stories are being written, new art crafted, and more. What is the Occult Triangle Lab? The Occult Triangle Lab is a home for fiction and multimedia projects that center on the world of OROBORO, a dark fantasy setting created by Christopher…
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Highlights from GIFCON 2017 and my trip to Scotland!
Hey, so you probably heard I was asked to speak at the Glasgow International Fantasy Conference on my 2015 project, The Rats in the Walls. The talk went great, and I’ll be publishing the full text soon, but in the meantime I wanted to give some of the high points of the trip. First off,…
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New Essay in Clarkesworld Magazine: “Frodo is Dead: Worldbuilding and The Science of Magic”
I’ve said this before: magic should not be science. Magic can be systematic and internally consistent, but it shouldn’t be reduced to a human tool, like astronomy or chemistry. A lot of writers and worldbuilders don’t seem to understand the difference–didn’t Arthur C. Clarke famously say that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic?” But there is a…
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I’m Going to Be a Speaker at Glasgow International Fantasy Convention!
Last month I saw a post on the SFWA website calling for papers and presentations for GIFCON, the Glasgow International Fantasy Convention, and decided to submit a presentation on my Rats in the Walls project. Now, I found out I’ve been accepted–I’m going to Scotland to be a speaker at the con (March 29th-30th)! “The…