The ongoing adventures of Cugel the Clever continue in the third novel in the Dying Earth series. Will Cugel once more attempt to gain greatness with the least expenditure possible? It wouldn't be called Cugel's Saga if he didn't....

A good, high-level overview of the different aspects of a siege. I don't know that you'd be able to go off and write a thesis on the subject based on this work alone, but it's thorough enough to satisfy the layman....

Killing the Dead is the second story in my Assassin Without a Name fantasy series. It's here in its entirety, free for you to read before heading over to Amazon to continue with the subsequent tales....

Step into the wayback machine; this tale takes place long before The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, when the First Dark Lord, Morgoth, sought dominion over all of Middle-Earth. It's an easier read than some of the other scholarly works of Tolkien and a much more enjoyable read as a result....

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Titus has entered the Entire before, but when he returned to our world it was by himself; his wife and daughter had stayed behind for reasons Titus does not remember. Upon his return, he makes it his mission to find them and to learn the reason they did not come back with him. The answer is both sad and bittersweet....

A list of interesting words I discovered while reading Karl Schroeder's Sun of Suns....

The top 10 highest-paid authors based on the time period from June 2009 through June 2010....

Add Sun of Suns to your reading list for the complex world-building alone....

Notable word choices made by Peter Brett, author of The Warded Man....