Tag: book reviews
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Lab Reading List: Alchemy & Mysticism by Alexander Roob
Alchemy has permeated the fantasy genre so deeply that it’s become a stock element, from alchemist shops in Dungeons & Dragons to the Alchemy skill in The Elder Scrolls. It was even a central element of Season 4 of the Castlevania animated series, which focused on a character directly inspired by the alchemical figure of…
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Occult Reading List: Vagabond & Berserk
This past June, I was at a panel discussion on fantasy literature and worldbuilding and was surprised when an audience member asked what the panelists thought about worldbuilding in manga series. In my experience, most people keep discussions of novels and manga separate, but it seems like the two mediums are overlapping more in people’s…
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The Occult Triangle Lab Review: Ubik by Phillip K. Dick
I first heard about this book when reading through Philip K. Dick’s biography, I Am Alive and You Are Dead, which took its title from one of the more chilling lines in Ubik. It seemed to have everything I could ever want: existential crises, meditations on eternity, entropy, and the human spirit, and a mind-bending journey through an illusory…