You liked Master LI and Number Ten Ox!!! That trilogy is one of my favorite unknown fantasy classics.

Still, they aren't perfect. A Jesuit who taught classes on religion at Boston College High School was just arrested and charged with having sex with a child.

Yep. Dealt with stuff like that, too. For much of the last 16 years of my working life I was in part a subject-matter-expert on the safe transportation of hazardous materials, world-wide, via any mode of transport. Had an entire shelf in my office bookcase full of regs I had to follow.

Fortunately, I have never felt any desire to climb Everest.

In my last job we regularly shipped 200-gal tanks of RFNA. RFNA is REALLY scary.

I do too. But I also understand the thermodynamics of the nitrating reaction, and refuse to play with it without proper hardware and adequate safety measures.

Oh, gods, Roger was/is one of my favorite authors. And don’t’ discount his shorter works. “A Rose For Ecclesiastes” is 61 years old, and it is STILL a gut-wrenching story to read.

Leyendecker also illustrated a collection of Irish myths. Here is his vision of Queen Maeve:

Yeah, I was just thinking that.

When I lived in Texas, we had school districts so small that their one high school played 7-man football. This is pretty much peak Texas.