We all love a great villain. Plenty of stories offer us Big Bads who are much more interesting than the mealy hero we’re supposed to care about. But what’s remarkable is how often our favorite baddies aren’t even all that big—they’re actually highly competent lackeys, or what’s sometimes known as “The Dragon” character: powerful, evil beings who are often […]
As anyone who has ever been single can attest, finding love isn’t easy. In fact, sometimes it seems like finding one person out of the billions here on Earth is impossible. For sci-fi and fantasy writers, of course, the impossible is often the starting point for a story, so it’s no surprise that SFF novels […]
