Author Archives: JE

About JE

James Enge is the author of the World-Fantasy-Award-nominated novel Blood of Ambrose (Pyr, April 2009). His latest book is The Wide World's End. His short fiction has appeared in Black Gate, Tales from the Magician's Skull, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and elsewhere.

Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit

ARMISTICE DAY, 1918by Robert Graves What’s all this hubbub and yelling,       Commotion and scamper of feet,With ear-splitting clatter of kettles and cans,       Wild laughter down Mafeking Street? O, those are the kids whom we fought for       (You … Continue reading

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Startling lines heard on the Halloween episode of “Castle” included…

“Crow may have drawn us a roadmap to Morlock.” “The crows would never do that!” I shouted at the screen. “Morlock and them have a deal!” Then I realized… different Crow… different Morlock.

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Three Things, Not Too Wild

1. Belated but unbowed, I posted a sort of review of the movie Where the Wild Things Are at the Blog Gate. 2. The Sci Fi Guys Book Review guys interviewed me a while ago for one of their periodic … Continue reading

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Sun Day

1. A new Babel Clash post, this one about the perils and pleasures of live storytelling. 2. An insanely beautiful day today. It was that kind of autumn day you remember wistfully from childhood, thinking, “I must be making that … Continue reading

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Clash on the Barrelhead

Babel Clash: Are we living in a pop Golden Age or a Silver Age–and, more importantly, what’s the exchange rate?

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Of Mainstream and Slushies

New Babel Clash: Respectobiggles of the Mainstream. (Actually, respectobiggles don’t come up, but now I wish I’d thought of them. Maybe the next time this perennial topic comes up.)

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Keeping It Unreal

New Babel Clash: Using reality, or vice versa.

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Free Is Good

Courtesy of Black Gate and Pyr, win a free copy of This Crooked Way, the book that many are calling, “A book about Morlock and some other characters.”

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At Night When You’re Asleep…

…into your blog I will creep. (At least, if you’re the Borders Babel Clash blog. Not otherwise, on advice of counsel.) A new entry here, this one with a video subtext, a political surtext, and a pro-fabulistic agenda. “What do … Continue reading

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It’s New, It’s Big, It’s All Over the Place: Philoromhorrmorbpunk

More genre-mixing in today’s “Babel Clash” post.

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