Sounds, Shapes, Ussers, and Auralia
First, a shameless self-promo: the short story "Silkod of the Drenn" has been published in Journ-E: The Journal of Imaginative Writing . A stand-alone “Tond” story, it is also a (possibly unsolved) call to adventure. Scroll down to find Volume 1, Number 2. Also, nobody's reviewed Grendul Rising yet, though here's an interview about it. Also, check out this blog's sister, The SoundScroll . It's about music. Okay, now that that's out of the way, here's the actual blog post. Discussion Part One So this time I’m going to look at a psychological/sensory phenomenon that occurs in one (possibly two?) of my own novels, even though I have never actually experienced it. Or have I? As usual, this blog will review a couple of books, and the point of one of them is that maybe I actually have experienced the phenomenon in question. Auralia’s Colors by Jeffrey Overstreet It’s refreshing to read a novel of high fantasy that does not draw its concepts of good and