Author: Alexis Kennedy
The Next Feast and the Last Duel
Cultist Simulator: Holometabolous Incipience
As you know, holometabolous metamorphosis is one of the most ghastly things in nature.
Why the Unterzee eats ships
The sea frightens me. I know I’m not alone in this.
‘The Rarer Action’
An update on the controversy of 2019, and an open letter to Failbetter Games.
The Confusion of Tongues
Linguistics quiz! Everyone loves a linguistics quiz.
/kəˈbal/, Part 3: The Society of Simon
The following is an extract from an article Alexis wrote decades ago, in 1996, for British roleplaying magazine Valkyrie. It’s juvenilia, and some bits make him wince – but it’s an insight into his early style and fiction which later became Fallen London, Sunless Sea and Cultist Simulator. [ Part 1, Part 2 ]
How It Happened To Happen
Jack Cohen is a reproductive biologist who gives talks on speculative xenobiology. I once heard him explain how we had happened to evolve from a species of fish that kept its reproductive organs next to the pipes it used to eliminate waste from its body.
September #1: IS THIS THING ON?
MAYBE A PUBLIC ALPHA OF BOOK OF HOURS?! Also, our August newsletter goes out.
/kəˈbal/, Part 1: The Caldecotts
The following is an extract from an article Alexis wrote decades ago, in 1996, for British roleplaying magazine Valkyrie. It’s juvenilia, and some bits make him wince – but it’s an insight into his early style and fiction which later became Fallen London, Sunless Sea and Cultist Simulator. [ Part 2, Part 3 ]