Off into the sunset …

If you are the hero of a fantasy novel, then your parents must be dead or absent.

Harry Potter (Harry Potter books): dead parents, raised by uncaring (though not truly evil) aunt and uncle.
Garion (Belgariad went-on-far-too-long series): dead parents, raised by extremely distant great grandparents whose roles as such are not revealed to him for quite some […]

Isn’t it funny how geeky boy science students don’t seem to have changed in 25 years?! Most of the science buildings on the UTas campus are clustered together, and when I wandered down that way yesterday there was a group of nerdy males conversing, looking just like the nerdy males I remember from my own uni […]