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Category: The Sleeping Dragon

  • Sleeping Dragon: Gadgets & Items

    Sleeping Dragon’s world is a world of magic, not electricity, with the universal laws of magic explaining that universe in much the same way that physics explains ours. The devices that Sleeping Dragon’s civilisation is built upon are powered by magic, having been designed by mage-programmers and mass-produced in factories. In our world, one word…

  • Countdown to Sleeping Dragon: An Introduction

    The Sleeping Dragon, my third novel, is set in what I call a “post-Tolkienesque” world. Five hundred years previously, it possessed all the standard trappings of a typical fantasy setting – kings, wizards, warriors, magic, dwarves, dragons, and elves who’d been so pissed off at the rise of men that they’d sodded off over a…

  • Announcing the “Manaverse”

    A couple of days ago I wrote a blog about my need to create a name for the fantasy setting of the Sleeping Dragon. Well, a few days later, I have it. Ladies and gentleman, drumroll please, may I give you… the Manaverse. What is the Manaverse? Well as the name suggests it’s a universe,…

  • Upabove: Sleeping Dragon’s Decaying Jewel

    Sleeping Dragon’s origins lie more than ten years in my past, to a weekend break my wife and I took to Venice back in the autumn of 2007. This was just three months after our wedding, but full disclose compels me to admit that this was the result not of some romantic gesture by me,…

  • The Cast of Sleeping Dragon: Dani

    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…