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Denver novelist David Slayton's newest novel, Dark Moon Shallow Sea, is out now as part of his fantasy trilogy

Borgor crept forward across the stony floor. He'd trekked for many leagues across the plains of V'lsht to reach the lair of the nekromancer Yoxxat, in ...

Thu Feb 12 2004 at 1:11:14 Borgor crept forward across the stony floor. He'd trekked for many leagues across the plains of V'lsht to reach the lair of the nekromancer Yoxxat, in the heart of the isolated volcano. Muttering a prayer to Benef, god of adventurers, he pressed on. How had he let the president talk him into this? Distracted, he did not notice the narrow chasm until it was nearly too late. Only by shooting out a hand and grabbing a stalactite did he avoid a hundred-foot plunge into boiling lava! So you've decided to design a world. Maybe you're a budding novelist.

First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. There is something enthralling about listening to Anastacia Tomson-Myburgh talk. She seems to have instant access to all the knowledge she’s accumulated in her life and can weave together clean, precise, lucid answers to almost any question, whether it is of an existential, factual, philosophical, sociological, medical or political nature. This talent is one of the reasons she became what she calls “a reluctant leader”. The other is her fairly unique identity of being a trans doctor. Tomson-Myburgh, author of Always Anastacia: ...