We all know you can learn a lot from reading fiction—about other cultures and time periods, about lifestyles and philosophies foreign to you. Reading almost always expands your mental horizons. but some books go beyond that. Sometimes, while enjoying a great novel, you find yourself learning something practical, a bit of knowledge you can apply in your daily life. These six […]
For years, one nagging question has troubled the minds of a small subset of genre readers: who is K.J. Parker? Since the publication of the author’s celebrated 1998 debut, Colours in the Steel, we’ve known the name to be a pseudonym for a previously published writer. But the person behind it has remained a mystery—even gender […]