Around the Blogroll

A couple of links worth reading.

Charlie Stross thinks the political landscape of the early to mid 21st century has already been designed -- by Gary Gygax. It's a scary thought.

Making Light discusses the worst excesses of fantasy and SF cover artwork, mullets and all.

As is always true with Making light, some of the best stuff is in the comments; in this one commenter Paul A comes up with the following:

I remember, at a convention once, somebody advancing the theory that the real reason The Revelation of St John was included in the New Testament canon was that the marketing department had already commissioned cover art featuring a half-dressed bimbo and a dragon with seven heads...