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A Collection of Essays on Various Works of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Frank Herbert's Dune: A Book Report (written when I was a sophomore in high school, it does show its age, but is still interesting to compare and contrast my level of appreciation of the work at the time to a more mature understanding of it>

The Identity of Kynes

The Ancestry of Stilgar

Loneliness, Impersonality and the Tecton (an essay on the Sime~Gen Universe of Jacqueline Lichtenberg)

Simelan (an examination of the fictional language of Jacqueline Lichtenberg's Sime~Gen Universe in light of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis)

The Mri Language (linguistic analysis of the fictional language of the mri in C. J. Cherryh's Faded Sun trilogy.

The Dol'jharian Langauge (linguistic analysis of the fictional language of the Dol'jharians, villains of the Exordium series by Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbrdige)

Where are the Next Draka Books?

Is Voldemort Harry Potter's Real Father? Say It Isn't So! (oriignally written after the publication of The Goblet of Fire)

>Literary Flaws of the Gor Books (alas, but it's not nearly as fun as Mark Twain's wonderful skewering of the literary sins of James Fenimore Cooper).

The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf, a review site I maintain, and its associated blog on which I discuss the news of the science fiction publishing world.