In 2018, TwoMorrows released Comic Book Implosion by Keith Dallas and John Wells, which was an oral history of the DC's 1978 plan for a...

Star Trek: Designing the Final Frontier by Dan Chavkin and Brian McGuire came out this week. It catalogs the use of Mid-Century Modern and ...

It would be reasonable to ask what's the use of a print episode guide to a TV show in an age where the internet makes the basic informat...

A bit of a depature for this Wednesday, a couple of books about comics and comics history. Despite the similarity in stated goals and the ba...

When I posted about the Jack Vance Lexicon last week , Baron Opal lamented there wasn't one for Gene Wolfe--which reminded me that ...

The preparation going on out in the Hill Cantons for a game in the Hyborian Age got me to thinking about a couple of works of nonfiction of...

I’m occasionally accused of having too many books. It is true the number sometimes means shelving requires some planning--sometimes they sta...

Can’t get enough of "Simian Saturday" over at the Green Skeleton Gaming Guild ? Or perhaps your gearing up for a game of Terra Pri...

Here are some nonfiction recommendations I’ve rustled up from my collection with an eye toward the Western genre. Given the broad influence ...

Wanting to create your own unique wildlife a la the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, or just wanting to get outside your usual monster manual...

Want to crank up the weird or strange in your game? Here are works from my library that I’ve found inspirational in doing just that--and wit...

Here are the latest acquisitions for my own nonfiction shelves, which you might find inspirational or isntructional in gaming, particularly ...

Looking for a good genre read for a summer vacation? Since I got a Kindle earlier this year, I’ve been able to buy books on even more of an ...

Here, from my shelves to you, are five more works of nonfiction that I've find inspirational, or instructional, in the process of world-...

Fiction isn't the only place to find gaming inspiration.  Here are a few choice nonfiction titles pulled from the shelves of my library:...

There are a lot great urban settings in fiction--Lankhmar, Shadizar the Wicked, Valkis , the Sprawl , and New Crobuzon , to name a few. As e...

Tired of your hum-hum, unadorned locution? Bored with your terse email correspondences? Frustrated by your lack of adjectives to describe th...