Wants Master (The Royal Academy at Osyth Stories)

I might not be Patricia S. Bowne's biggest fan, but I am one of the first.

Patricia S. Bowne

We were both members of a writer's critique group in Milwaukee in the s. She was working on stories set in at the Royal Academy of Arcane Arts and Sciences at Osyth, a university with both magic and bureaucracy. She's been hanging around university science departments all her life - even longer, since her mother was pregnant with her while she was a grad student. Pat has a PhD. She has a shrewd eye for personalities, with their strengths, foibles, and secrets. She's written a series of novels and short stories about Osyth, and I love them all.

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I'm always drawing on that - not that any of my professors were attacked by demons! I went to such interesting grad schools, with things like whale skeletons buried in the volleyball pit, deep-sea sampling expeditions, students chasing down pronghorns in winter and sampling lakes during snowstorms, or running into bears on their sampling transects - how could I not miss all that when I went into teaching?

There's a part in the first novel where Warren wishes he was a painter, just so he could record what the offices look like. I felt that way every day when I was in grad school. So I finally have recorded it, if in an altered form. What's the Royal Academy at Osyth like? It's like a large modern university, an R1 [advanced research institution] with medical school sorcery and engineering school wizardry.

The Demonology Department is about equivalent to the biology department at a real university; it's in the school of Natural Magic.

I've toyed with adding a business program for non-magical students, since as a Royal Academy they have to accept any of the Royal family whether they're talented or not, but haven't written anything about it yet. I wanted it to be a real university, with the kinds of issues that a real university has - for instance, insurance coverage, faculty meetings, program evaluations, all those things that seem to be imposed from some nebulous upper region that's why the Dean doesn't have a name. Folks who write about universities of magic sometimes treat them as if faculty just do whatever interests them until they cry "voila!

But in real life, what government would allow that? All my faculty work under bureaucratic constraints. The most extreme example is Bill Navanax, who might be burned at the stake if he takes his work out of the lab. I'm told that the most realistic part of Advice From Pigeons is the stress on a new faculty member. Rho really does need to get his research going and get a grant ASAP, and the culture clash he goes through on moving from Kasidora to the Royal Academy is real.

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I enjoyed that it was unpredictable and you kept me guessing to th Gregg wrote: I enjoyed that it was unpredictable and you kept me guessing to the end. The story had a great mood, and the character Winst I hope you enjoy the book you bought, and many more! Mar 16, Patricia Bowne liked a quote. Mar 18,