‘Humour, Genre & the One True Quest for a Missing Pillar’ by Shiv Ramdas

A tricksy fantasy labyrinth up to some very smart mischief. Part guidebook part purposeful obfuscation part playful agitation part scholarly article part absurdist adventure through a world of and about words, it’s a must-read for anyone interested in story structures, meta-textual pyrotechnics, interactive literary criticism, speculative architecture, genre thinking, jokes, doors, footnotes.

First published in Uncanny Magazine, 2021 and available to read online here