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Please do not say the sentence "kids don't want to feel the adult behind the book" but also yes they fucking do. One of the best parts of being a kid is reading a book that is just out of your grasp of maturity. Feeling like you're getting an early preview of the world.

I was inspired by this piece from @duncanfyfe.net ‘Is this book even for children?…The book feels at once too odd, tempering its fantasy with adult disappointment, to catch on with kids.’ www.ft.com/content/412a...

Just finished reading this. I’m sorry it’s taken so long to discover Naomi Mitchison. Hard to sum up but it’s like Colette wrote a fairytale. Amazingly published in 1952, two years before Lord of the Rings

Went to Korean BBQ for birthday dinner and saw one of my favorite things in the world: inexplicable signage

This is the most fun I've had reading about video games since someone tracked down the actress who started in PLUMBERS DON'T WEAR TIES and interviewed her.

still the most fun I've ever had at work www.vice.com/en/article/a...

obligatory link to the oral history of this glorious moment, the man is truly a living legend

if Tim Curry had only blessed us with this speech it would have been enough, but he has given us so much more

the best genre of video game is the ones where you can get on the roof

It was such an absolute pleasure to be interviewed for this piece!!

Travel Light, a miniature epic of magic and mundanity, is back in print this year from Virago, thanks in part to the enthusiasm of fans like El-Mohtar, and the chaotic influence of a former Twitter user called "bigolas dickolas wolfwood" www.ft.com/content/412a...

For the FT this weekend, I wrote about the 70-year history of one of my favourite weird books — Naomi Mitchison's fantasy (?) novel for children (??) Travel Light, which @amalelmohtar.com calls "like sunlight... beautiful, warm and strange" www.ft.com/content/412a...

For the FT this weekend, I wrote about the 70-year history of one of my favourite weird books — Naomi Mitchison's fantasy (?) novel for children (??) Travel Light, which @amalelmohtar.com calls "like sunlight... beautiful, warm and strange" www.ft.com/content/412a...

Was absolutely riveted by this feature by @duncanfyfe.net on The Elder Scrolls and lore over at @remapradio.bsky.social remapradio.com/articles/who...

"only" oh my god

thank you!

Can't recommend enough that you read this amazing piece and then listen to the author discussing it with Rob Zacny: open.spotify.com/episode/2EZf... I particularly enjoy that the author pulled a fun meta twist and added all sort of contradicting quotes & viewpoints on world-building

Great article about lore, and of the Elder Scrolls lore in particular, but there's a really fun bit with Gary Gygax at the start:

Here’s @duncanfyfe.net on the intentionally tangled lore of The Elder Scrolls and the creative forces that shaped that world a pivotal moment before its mass popularity. remapradio.com/articles/who...

Really excellent piece digging into some of the development of Morrowind. I remember playing it as a teenager and being amazed not only at its strange world, but contradictory theologies and histories. It breathed a real life into the entire setting im not sure I’ve ever seen again in a game.

did some illustrations for this piece! it was super fun~

To be clear, this is why I subscribe to @remapradio.bsky.social. There are so few places to find writing as fascinating as this, telling stories that both illuminate the history of the medium and also grapple with the question of what the fuck lore is, was, or if it is worth caring about.

Check out this very interesting (and I suspect divisive!) article on the creation of TES lore. It asks the fundamental question: should lore have one definitive canon? Featuring interviews with many devs, as well as fans like me. remapradio.com/articles/who...

Morrowind in the hearts and minds of gamers lately 😤 But you don't have to care about TES to enjoy this. Really excellent article on game lore and worldbuilding from @duncanfyfe.net. (Glad as ever @remapradio.bsky.social is providing space for pieces like this) remapradio.com/articles/who...

This is a really excellent piece and your relationship with Elder Scrolls, or even caring about "lore," has no bearing on whether you'll enjoy this exploration about the role of world building in storytelling.

For @remapradio.bsky.social, I wrote about the worldbuilding business, and the apparently irreconcilable lore of Bethesda's ELDER SCROLLS games. This is about people who love lore, people who make it, people who break it, and those who do all three. remapradio.com/articles/who...

this week on Remap: an absolutely monstrous piece from me on Lore, and who cares about it

There is a submerged cave at Greece's Mani peninsula said to be where Orpheus descended after the shade of Eurydice; today, according to one tour guide, it's where swimmers like to stop and have a shit www.ft.com/content/6c96...

I'm in the FT magazine this weekend, writing on one of my favourite subjects

I'm in the FT magazine this weekend, writing on one of my favourite subjects

This is somehow the most haunting bit of in-game lore I have ever read.

A real honour to write something for Jacob's new book, and a real pleasure to have an excuse to carry out this particular investigation

Here is a little bit of @duncanfyfe.net's afterword for "How Can We Bear to Throw Anything Away?"

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Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

14 years ago we accidentally hired a genius to write the script for 80 Days. Now she’s narrative director on a deck-builder about billionaire busting. Check out All Will Rise:

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

in 2026, let's bring back the concept of "selling out" and once again make it contemptible

I think it's important to know that an oral history of Tim Curry's greatest line delivery exists here it is (and yes, it was his first take, and yes, they kept it anyway because how could you not)

26 // Space is the final frontier and it’s where Tim Curry’s Soviet Premier wants to go in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. You can learn more than you ever wanted to know about the game’s most infamous scene in this oral history from @duncanfyfe.net. videogameresearchlibrary.com/an-oral-hist...

This nomination — a second consecutive one! for journalism! — is so appreciated, not least because I had a grand total of FOUR pieces published this year, which I worried is really not very many. (I spent most of this year writing things to be published in 2026, 2027 and beyond.)

🎉 #NewYorkGameAward nominees for Games Journalism: Duncan Fyfe @duncanfyfe.net Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social Jackson Tyler @abnormalmapping.bsky.social Joseph Earl Thomas Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social Nicanor Gordon @nicanor.bsky.social People Make Games @chrisbratt.bsky.social

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This was one of the all-time bangers of deep dive journalism from Waypoint. I was a part of Sierra fandom and closely followed these developments as they happened, and it's unreal to see it retold but with all of the wild, crazy financial business shit laid bare.

Rediscovered this electric article from 2020 by the great @duncanfyfe.net about the death of Sierra, a studio that was so so important to my childhood.

And all your favourite characters from the movies are here

Friends, I am in the market for editing work at the moment. I really enjoyed a stint editing stories for BBC Future earlier this year and am currently looking for more such opportunities! Anything from news & features to book chapters and so on. I'm game. Please share!

For the FT this weekend, I wrote about the foundation and fallout of Disco Elysium: how two Estonian novelists' successes and failures in literature led to the creation of a video game masterpiece, and an endless font of strife. www.ft.com/content/5ae5...

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