RPG/Book Review: The Memoirs of Auberon of Faerie by Jeff Grubb
(Note: The original version of this review was written for an issue of Astrovitae, a magazine of speculative biology. The magazine is currently on hiatus, and that issue has not been published, so I figured I'd share my article here. Astrovitae is an awesome magazine, by the way. Anyone with an interest in speculative biology should definitely check it out. Every issue is available for free here .) Speculative biology is a subgenre in science fiction and fantasy that looks at imaginary life through scientific lens. This includes designing plausible alien creatures, animals from the far future, and alternative paths that life could have evolved on Earth such as non-avian dinosaurs that survived the end-Cretaceous asteroid impact. Then there is fiction that examines the biology of beings from mythology and folklore to see how they could exist as natural organisms. Some creatures are easy to explain- dragons, sasquatches, unicorns, etc. More explicitly supernatural entities such as...