Empires of Sand
David Ball’s Empires of Sand is a deliberate throwback to the adventure fiction of the nineteenth century
I have often talked of the strange places where I have discovered strange things to partake in, be they YouTube recommendations or Netflix algorithms or /r/FreeEbooks. Here I shall sing of yet another such way: anthologies.
I discovered the work of David Ball through Rogue, an anthology dedicated to the titular archetype edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois.
(Side note: any anthology…