Recent content by Malacandra

Yes. In my imagination I'm picturing a refuelling depot not far from El Alamein, and a dozen or so centaurs, twenty at most, approaching at dead of night carrying mortars and Vickers machine-guns (with some of them also carrying Bren light machine guns as you might a rifle). The guards are...

This rather reminds me of a little disagreement I had with Mercedes Lackey (yes, the Mercedes Lackey) over on Quora. I do not know why, but the subject of the usefulness of centaurs on a modern battlefield came up, and she insisted that they would need to be armoured like a tank and even that...

I have had more than enough time to explore! :D I go back twenty years hereabouts, although I'm not often a visitor these days, but thank you for the kind thought.

Yes. Lewis himself remarked that she had many years before her for a change of heart. I have long since had the germ of an idea for at least one episode that takes place after she first goes to the Wood and this last episode, and one day I must see if I can find time to write it (and hopefully...

Some day I hope to write the episodes that belong after Once a Queen in Narnia and before this :)

(This is a follow-on from the earlier stories "Plumbing the Depths" and "Once a Queen in Narnia". I was talking them over with Copilot and the AI asked if I had any future plans for John Henry to interact with Susan. And a sudden thought occurred to me. :p) She stood before the Fountain, full...

And it's good to see you're still well, EveningStar. I'm just coming up to retirement so I hope to have some more time for writing, too.

Hello everyone, I've hardly been around for years, but I've not been idle. Along with the tedious but necessary business of earning a living, I've been working on some writing that definitely leans into Lewis in places -- sometimes with echoes of Narnia, but often with a tip of the hat towards...

Sounds like the kind of book I would enjoy, if only (for I have devoured this series many times) as hobbits delighted in books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions. :D

(I have some ideas, but I was quite unwell last weekend - enough to take a Covid test but mercifully it came up negative. I have some ideas jostling for attention, the oldest of which is at least as old as the idea for this whole Woods/Fountain/Gardener sequence. I will start bashing it down and...

As to the first, "Miss Railly" is the central character in Plumbing the Depths (it's lurking somewhere in the recesses of this forum); it's pronounced "Rye", and as The Plumber explains when he gives her the lion, which is addressed to her with a three-syllable name she hasn't seen for many...

“Woman, why do you weep?” said the gentle voice of a strange man after a long while. Supposing him to be the gardener, Susan answered: “Because this is a cruel mirror, and shows things that are not, and that cannot ever be again; and it seems that it shows them to wound me.” The voice said...

It was impossible to say how long the falling sensation went on for. Time didn’t seem to mean much any more. But it was not for ever, and then sight and sound and the other senses came back quite abruptly, beginning with the realization that her feet were wet. As her eyes opened, they took in a...

(New readers: Some years ago I posted a story called Plumbing the Depths in which a repairman who was called in to replace a radiator in a retirement home had a long conversation with one of the residents, a Miss Railly (pronounced "Rye"). At the end of the conversation the repairman presented...

While a mere 61, I am having to come to terms with the fact that in many circles (not all; the church where I play organ is a notable exception) I'm the oldest or among the oldest. Aside from the odd minor niggle and gradually starting to say goodbye to one tooth after another, I really can't...