Grailrunner goes looking for the ideas that make people want to make something. Meet remarkable creators, uncover strange inventions and forgotten games, experiment with impossible conversations, and rediscover speculative fiction that still burns hot decades later.
Pick a trail and see where it leads.
MEET THE MAKERS
Artists, writers, game designers, futurists, cartographers and other remarkable creators talk about what first sparked their imaginations, how they work, and what still keeps them creating.
Creative experiments using AI to place famous voices from the past into conversations, debates and unlikely collaborations that history never gave them the chance to have.
Forgotten science fiction and fantasy from the pulp era, spotlighted for readers who want to see just how wild, inventive and surprising the old magazines could be.
Stephen Gibson, creator of GrimslingersKarl Schroeder, futurist and authorBrock Oliverio, creator of Future FighterJeff Grubb, writer for Dungeons & Dragons& Star WarsFrancesca Baerald, fantasy cartographerDaniel Sell, RPG game designerJake Norwood: designer of The Riddle of Steel RPGMateusz Lenart: Game director and pen & ink master
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Athanasius Kircher’s Machine Of Inspiration13th Century Islamic Oracle Machine11th Century Philosophers’ GameWhat Exactly Did Magellan See In That Secret Treasury?Why Does This 14th Century Book Have A Dial In The Cover?Was A Booby Trap At The Heart Of One Of The Most Pivotal Battles In World History?Let’s trace 18th century sites for a shipwreck and a town’s founding!A lost card game of the wild American west
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Stephen King & Hemingway debate verbosity in fictionTolkien writes us a new short storyHarlan Ellison debates famous authors on shock value in fictionA friend I lost years ago left me his lyrics – here are his songsArt critiques from a resurrected master of pen & inkA game designed by Tolkien and the Monkey King (and it’s free!)
A spirited debate between artists, Syd Mead and John Berkey and writers, Harlan Ellison and Arthur Clarke
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Black Priestess Of VardaThe Ultimate SalientJourney That Lasted 600 YearsThe Eyes Of Thar
FOLLOW THE SPARK
Inspiration is where Grailrunner starts. It builds worlds, games, stories, strange technologies, and new places to explore.
