The Beautiful and Dangerous Ecology in A Song of Ice and Fire
This article contains a few spoilers. To follow along, it’s helpful for the reader to be familiar with author George … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Discover
The Middle Earth Universe, J.R.R. Tolkien
This is the 600th book post made in the years I’ve run Dragonfly, and I wanted to make it special … Continue reading →
Ecological Weird Fiction
In light of the Discover feature here at Dragonfly, I began writing what would turn into three articles, between 2017 … Continue reading →
Paradise Lost, John Milton
It’s been a while since I have had time to write a new Discover book feature. Partly it is just … Continue reading →
Lost Horizon, James Hilton
I was happy to find this old book at the Value Village in Burquitlam. I have this book on Kindle, … Continue reading →
Minus Tide, Kevin Ostedal
Over a decade ago, when I was chief editor of Jack Magazine, issues would have themes, whether South African poetry … Continue reading →
A White Umbrella in Mexico, Francis Hopkinson Smith
I found this book among a collection of “The Works of F. Hopkinson Smith” at Brown’s Books in Burnaby. I … Continue reading →
The Faith of a Coast Salish Indian, Diamond Jenness
These days we would say First Nations, but during anthropologist Diamond Jenness’s day–this book first published in 1955–the term Indian … Continue reading →
On the Beach, Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute’s On the Beach is credited as an example of fiction that changed the way we think about a … Continue reading →
In Search of Captain Zero, Allan Weisbecker
The story behind this book is that I discovered it when I lived in California. I wish I could remember … Continue reading →