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Entertaining and Smart
Her world is engaging and unexpected ... consider it the Harry Potter series told from the perspective of the magic teachers. This makes this novel a great read for adults and also a fresh perspective on the whole wizardry thing. Highly recommended!"I was delighted to come across this wry, inventive fantasy... Anyone who's spent time at a university will recognize the place...
I'd recommend this to anyone who appreciates academic life, spells, counter-spells, supernatural battles, and the charms of discourse.
... a much more interesting take on demonology than the more traditional realm-of-hell version...definitely recommended
A tenure-track position is a wonderful thing -- even when it comes with demons.
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Demons don't take time off for spring break...
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Mix the Demonology Department's resident curmudgeon, a dragon, and a banshee in the world's messiest, most dangerous research museum...
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8,000 word novella
William Harrison Gracile, enchanter and development officer extraordinaire, has never met a woman he couldn't handle - until he finds himself between a maker of dreams and the academy's only professional lecher. Previously reprinted in Year's Best Fantasy 3.
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None of Anders Regans' colleagues in Demonology would have voted him most likely to become a god, but what did they know? A mild-mannered botanist finds himself embroiled in plant pornography, dryad rights, and the theology of conference door-prizes. Illustrated by Georgie Schnobrich.
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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Meet the faculty
For the convenience of readers and prospective graduate students, here are the pages from the Royal Academy’s bulletin dealing with the Demonology Department. The Royal Academy Bulletin – Demonology Share This:TweetFacebookStumbleUponDiggDelicious
Drood by Dan Simmons
If someone had offered me a new novel by Wilkie Collins, would I have bought it? Well, no. But just tell me it’s about Dickens, and I’m ready to read it – which is the problem for Collins, the narrator … Continue reading
Students Ask: Should Brownies and Imps Grade Papers?
Do you know whether the comments on your latest paper were really written by your prof? Did s/he even glance at the thing? If it was a zoomancy paper, probably not, according to a tech in the Natural Magic Museum. … Continue reading
Advice From Pigeons
The first Royal Academy of Osyth novel is now available for purchase from Double Dragon Publishers! Share This:TweetFacebookStumbleUponDiggDelicious
Metadata Schemas — are they magic?
I was surfing around Scientopia and found a discussion of metadata schemas on The Book of Trogool. I guess if I thought about it, I would have realized that different disciplines use different organizational structures for their data, and this … Continue reading
Magical Knitting; Wicked Stitches
by Julia Fenwick, Arcane Arts Museum The last time knitting was in vogue, magicians weren’t interested in it. The pilled sweaters and bulky ponchos of our youth certainly had nothing magical about them. But now it’s the information age, and … Continue reading