The recent passing of Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Dave Arneson saddens me, as did the death last year of Gary Gygax. Though I never met either man, I owe them a debt of gratitude for many hours of entertainment. I also must acknowledge them as creative influences on the Jason Cosmo saga. It is safe to say that without the work of Arneson and Gygax (along with many other creators and authors at TSR and Dragon magazine) there would be no Jason Cosmo! Continue reading
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Blurb Jason Cosmo!
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You know those blurbs you find on books that are intended to make you think that this book is super-awesome because Famous Author X says so? Like —“This book scared me.” — Stephen King or “A real page turner.” — John Grisham.
I probably won’t have many of those on the new edition of Jason Cosmo: Hero Wanted. Continue reading
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Hero Wanted
Greetings, Loyal Reader!
Happy New Year and welcome to 2009. To this point, I have assumed that most readers of the Jason Cosmo Update are either:
- Longtime Loyal Readers who have read one or more books in the Jason Cosmo Non-Trilogy (Jason Cosmo, Royal Chaos, Dirty Work)
- Related to me.
- All of the above.
But this is 2009. Continue reading
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Magic in Jason Cosmo
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Over at Tor.com, author Jane Lindskold posits that “In discussions of magic in Fantasy fiction, a frequently argued point is whether or not systemized magic somehow ruins the “magical” feeling of a work of fiction by making magic a poor copy of science.”
