The spectre-children sitting–look, such things As dreams are made on, phantoms as of babes, Horrible shadows, that a kinsman’s hand Hath marked with murder, and their arms are full– A rueful burden–see, they hold them up, The entrails upon which their father fed!
He has written seven non-SF novels to date, including The Hand-Reared Boy (1970), a novel of sexual initiation that was a considerable popular success in Britain, and its two sequels A Soldier Erect (1971) and A Rude Awakening (1978). And of course he has been a distinguished writer ...
Yamato's wood ninjutsu lets him build a full two-story wooden house out of nothing. Whenever there's a fictional universe like this one where ninjutsu, or say magic, is so powerful, I always wonder why anyone ever bothers learning any other skills. It must suck to spend years learning ca...