The Way Back GULag is the acronym for the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems in the early 1900’s. In Romanized Russian that’s “Glavnoye upravlyeniye ispravityel’no-trudovih lagyeryey i koloniy” which means “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies.” The term “Gulag” quickly morphed to represent the camps themselves, which
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Buck About two years ago I was walking out in Round Valley and saw a rider on a horse coming down a hill through the brush. I got to him just as he moved onto the road. Right away, I noticed that there was something a bit off with the horse’s gear—the rider was not
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Sherlock Holmes & Mission Impossible I have been looking forward to two movies this holiday season. One of them was as good as I’d hoped it would be. The other disappointed me because the story tellers forgot to make things clear. The two movies were Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of
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Pure Delight One of the most delightful literary characters to appear in the last decade is the cheeky Bartimaeus–a five-thousand-year-old djinni (“genie”) who plays the lead role in Jonathan Stroud’s trilogy The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem’s Eye, and Ptolemy’s Gate. In Stroud’s world, magicians have no magic in themselves, but they do have the
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David Farland has been a big influence on me. It was his workshop back in the 90’s that actually made me think I could write professionally and led directly to my first publication as a Writers of the Future winner. Later Dave gave me comments on my first novel which helped me write a second, much better
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