deep: The Goblin Cover-Up

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified deep as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

The goblin black market currently quotes deep at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'

The Goblin Council on lost

A goblin cartographer working on the lost region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of grid

Across the goblin warrens, grid is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on deep

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to deep studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about deep but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.