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The Cast of Sleeping Dragon: Darick
The cast of the Sleeping Dragon is an ensemble one, featuring five misfits bought together by circumstances beyond their understanding, who swiftly realise that only by working together can they work out just what the hell’s going on and, more importantly, just how the hell they can get out of it. In this post we…
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Jonnycon II Makes The Local News
A press release I put out about Jonnycon II (the launch party for the Sleeping Dragon) was picked up by our local web news site, Rochdale Online. I was quite chuffed about that. …Jonny said, “I’m a Londoner originally, but my wife and I moved to the Littleborough area nearly three years ago. It was…
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Sleeping Dragon’s Phonetic Alphabet
Like our world, the world of Sleeping Dragon has a phonetic alphabet. However, given that world’s history, the words chosen are rather different. A – Amulet B – Bard C – Candle D – Dagger E – Elven F – Flame G – Griffin H – Hammer I – Ice J – Jade K –…
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The Cast of Sleeping Dragon: The Storm
The cast of the Sleeping Dragon is an ensemble one, featuring five misfits bought together by circumstances beyond their understanding, who swiftly realise that only by working together can they work out just what the hell’s going on and, more importantly, just how the hell they can get out of it. In this post we…
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Elven Vision In The World Of Sleeping Dragon
“Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over worldbuilding.” – M. John Harrison When writing a fantasy or science fiction novel, authors generally find themselves engaging in quite a lot of world building in an effort to create a world of depth and detail sufficient that the resulting story…
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The Cast of Sleeping Dragon: Presto
The cast of the Sleeping Dragon is an ensemble one, featuring five misfits bought together by circumstances beyond their understanding, who swiftly realise that only by working together can they work out just what the hell’s going on and, more importantly, just how the hell they can get out of it. In this post we…
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The Cast of Sleeping Dragon: Blade
The cast of the Sleeping Dragon is an ensemble one, featuring five misfits bought together by circumstances beyond their understanding, who swiftly realise that only by working together can they work out just what the hell’s going on and, more importantly, just how the hell they can get out of it. In this post we…
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Adventuring In The World of Sleeping Dragon
The world of Sleeping Dragon is an ancient one. For several tens of millennia, civilisations had risen and fallen, with each new civilisation built upon the foundations of the old. In times of old, adventurers would venture east over the World’s End Mountains and into the wild, untamed wilderness that lay beyond, in search of…
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Sleeping Dragon: Geography
Like many a fantasy world before it, the Sleeping Dragon is an analogue of our own Europe. I could give some kind of academic style answer to that, involving much talk of metaphor and historic analogue, but the truth is that since the Sleeping Dragon has elements of a comic fantasy novel, one in which…
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YouTube Review: Encounter With Tiber and The Return
My review of two books by the science-fiction author John Barnes (who’s not that John Barnes) and Buzz Aldrin (who is that Buzz Aldrin). In it, I compare and contrast them, describing how they start from similar premises (a then near-future accident to the space shuttle Columbia) but then go in very different directions.
