The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

I was heavily into AD&D in my teens (late 1970s-early 1980s) but fell off the RPG habit in the mid-80s and have never gone back to it; my lifestyle today isn't very compatible with having a regular gaming group (too much travel).

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)