Fantasy maps, spoilers for Middlegame

The quadrants of mythical fantasy worlds are important to the alchemical geography. There’s a remark about switching west to east from Oz to another author’s world. That confused me, since the text of the books and all the maps I’d seen in them clearly showed it matching:
East=Blue/Munchkins,
West=Yellow/Winkies.

Turns out the Oz map was printed backward the first time it appeared.

Switching directions is real-world canon!

Tor is offering a free e-book of Seanan McGuire’s Middlegame this week!It’s really, really …

Tor is offering a free e-book of Seanan McGuire’s Middlegame this week!

It’s really, really good. Sort of a modern horror fantasy focusing on alchemy and time loops with characters who have been created to be superhuman at things like math, language, order, chaos, etc.

Possibly my favorite of her books that I’ve read. Definitely recommended!

Oh fun…some spammer used their mailing list email as the reply-to addressWhich means all …

Oh fun…some spammer used their mailing list email as the reply-to address

Which means all the autoreplies and bounces and complaints and challenge-responses and everything are going out to the same list.

And they’ve got a lot of website contact emails on the list too, so I’m getting random tech support ticket confirmations and thanks-for-your-interest and so on along with everything else.

On Wandering.shop