Philip K. Dick is viewed by many as the father of modern science fiction. His book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is one of the reasons for that title. Originally published in 1968, the story follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who is charged by the police to eliminate rogue androids. However, this story…
SeventhSanctum.com is a website that hosts contests and contains many different random generators for establishing characters, setting, and more, mostly with a fantasy angle to it. Pictured above is the homepage. It contains the blog, which gives information on contests coming up, as well as the results of finished contests. In the middle of the…
The Wheel of Time is a high fantasy tale of epic proportions. Written by Robert Jordan, the first book, The Eye Of The World was originally published in 1990. Jordan continued to write the series until his death in late 2007. Beginning with the 12th book in the series and using Robert Jordan’s highly detailed…
Zach Pasons’ My Tank Is Fight was published in 2006. It details some of the inventions and ideas that didn’t actually make it to the battlefield. Many of these are of German origin, fueled by the need for some kind of new weapon to turn the war around. The picture above, which is in the…
Is genre writing, particularly science fiction and fantasy literature? Recently it has become a topic of hot debate among the creative writing big wigs. One side believes that no, fantasy and science fiction are not literature, period. The other side thinks that they can be. What is literature? Literature is defined as: “writings in which…
Vampire Knight is a manga written and drawn by Matsuri Hino. It originally premiered in 2005 and is currently on-going. It is a fantastical piece of shojo manga, although a two season 26 episode anime version has been made as well. First off, Matsuri Hino’s art is fantastic. Her style is very pretty to look…
Soulcalibur V is the latest in the ever popular SoulCalibur series, released in early 2012. It is set about 16 years after the previous game, and the cursed sword Soul Edge has returned. As a fighting game, SoulCalibur V lives up to its predecessors. Its battle system is well crafted and fun to play. There…
Gurren Lagann is an anime that originally aired in Japan in 2007. Since then it has been re-dubbed in English and is actually on Netflix now. It follows the story of downtrodden humans who are forced to live underground, subjugated by beastmen and the tyrant Spiral King. The story truly begins when Simon and his…
Mansions of Madness was made by Fantasy Flight Games and was released in 2011. It is a game for 2-5 players, though the more players, the better. One player takes the role of the Dungeon Master, and the other players are investigators. The Dungeon Master will need to take some time to prepare one of…
Nexus Ops is a strategy board game that was originally released in 2005, though Fantasy Flight Games released a reprint in early 2012 that included new ways to play in the rulebook. This game functions very differently from many other strategy games. Each player takes control of a company that is attempting to harvest…
Originally released as an expansion for Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars, it was released in 2008. Command and Conquer 3 is an RTS (Real Time Strategy) game, and is one of the few to ever make a successful launch on a console (versus a PC). The story picks up where Tiberium Wars left off, with…
Written in 1926 by H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu was first published in 1928. Since that time, it has become a cult classic, its popularity leading it to spread across all forms of entertainment. There are now boardgames, videogames, songs, roleplaying games, and much, much more associated with the Cthulhu mythos. The story itself…
