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Advertisement In Norse mythology, Loki causes just as much confusion as his Marvel iteration. Though there aren’t any stories of him outwitting death, there are plenty of myths where he shapeshifts, swaps genders, or tricks gods into killing other gods. In the Marvel universe, he’s quite prone to allegiance swapping. Let’s dig into this troublemaker’s journey. What is Loki’s origin? The legends surrounding the Norse god are first documented in writing around the 13th century, primarily in Iceland. There are two versions of these legends that enter the historical record around the sa...

How to Write a Pro-Glacier Book: An Earth Day Reading List Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður, Iceland. Photo by beau mori on Unsplash. My writing is a product of my reading, so today, on Earth Day, I am pleased to share some of the books that inspired me to write On Time and Water. The theme of the book is, as the title says, time and water, and how all the elements of water that used to change on a geological scale of thousands or millions of years now change in a single human lifetime. Sometimes the issue is called "climate change," but that is just a term, and it comes nowhere close to expr...

Poetic Edda  is composed of 29 poems, contained in a famous manuscript known as the  Codex Regius  N. 2365 (which has for centuries been the property of the Copenhagen University). And the first two texts of the collection—the  Völospá and the  Havamál—are particularly relevant for the image of Odin as a god of  secret knowledge , and consequently master of the  art of poetry . Odin throws a spear at the Vanir host in the Norse Æsir-Vanir war of gods. (Lorenz Frølich /  ) The exegesis and translation of these texts has always been subjected to many problems of interpreta...

New York Times-bestselling science fiction epic Out of the Dark, Earth beat back an alien invasion. Now we've got to make sure they don't come back, in Into the Light. The Shongairi conquered Earth. In mere minutes, half the human race died, and our cities lay in shattered ruins. But the Shongairi didn’t expect the survivors’ tenacity. And, crucially, they didn’t know that Earth harbored two species of intelligent, tool-using bipeds. One of them was us. The other, long-lived and lethal, was hiding in the mountains of eastern Europe, the subject of fantasy and legend. When they emerged...