Altered Carbon Offers an Out-of-Body Experience In Someone Else’s Flesh
Altered Carbon shares a grim, dinginess similar to Blade Runner. The 1% now live hundreds of years in a rotating cast of tech-infused bodies.
After the Funeral
I stand on black water, like a navigator at night, maps aglow in lantern light, as the stars wink out one by one. Not sure how well this poem…
In Last Argument of Kings, It’s Evil Versus Evil
There is no room for epic fantasy in this grimdark universe.
Before They Are Hanged: The Antihero’s Journey
Conventional fantasy goes back to the mud. It's tromped on. Ground down in the dirt. There are people to kill and scores to settle. Conventional fantasy tropes are among the dead.