I love cities. I might even love cites in fiction even more. I love when writers capture the movement and odd flavor of their particular city, how it moves, the districts and sociological rub of the different neighborhoods, the people on the Street, the people in the clubs, the people in the inevita...
One of the things I loved the most about Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series was his rather brilliant twist on the concept of a witch's familiar: that in that world, each person's soul manifests as a companion animal that is their other half. It's not only because it's a cool idea; it also is...