Showing posts with label DMR Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DMR Books. Show all posts
Friday, January 12, 2024

Going Viking at DMR Books

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No, not looting and plundering Dave Ritzlin's book hoard, but do have a new post up on his blog:  A Deep Cut of Adventure: The Saga of S...
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Friday, January 5, 2024

The Truth of the Matter of Britain

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Something about January has been bringing me back to King Arthur. Maybe it's the promise of renewal, of a hopeful dawn on a new golden a...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Remembering Manilla Road's Mark Shelton, heavy metal bard of sword-and-sorcery

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Ben Davidson of Conan the Barbarian fame? Nope, Mark Shelton. Yesterday marked the 5 year anniversary of the death of Mark Shelton, founder ...
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Friday, June 16, 2023

Neither Beg Nor Yield, and other S&S developments

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Keith Taylor was one of the most talented authors to come out of the “second wave” of sword-and-sorcery in the mid-late 70s. Upon a re-read ...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Why (Human Generated) Sword-and-Sorcery?

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Fuck you asshole... I'm here to write your sword-and-sorcery Wherein I rage against the machine. Check it out here, on the blog of DMR B...
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Monday, January 23, 2023

Blood of the Serpent: Is the New Conan Novel Really Conan?

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This past weekend I finished the new Conan novel, S.M. Stirling's Blood of the Serpent . And wrote a brief review which you can find on ...
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Saturday, January 14, 2023

The big Excalibur post

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Up on the blog of DMR Books is the big Excalibur post I've been meaning to write for years. 2K words about not just one of my favorite f...
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Saturday, September 17, 2022

Fantastic essay and other updates

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Failed to mention that my post on Fantastic , that digest-size magazine that ran from 1952-1980 and published a fair bit of sword-and-sorcer...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

A shout-out to five S&S voices on the interwebs

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We don’t always stop to praise others whose stuff we read, or who are doing general good work in the spaces we enjoy. So here’s a shout-out ...
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Monday, July 11, 2022

LORDS OF DESTRUCTION! A review of Death Dealer book 2

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If you're looking for sword-and-sorcery turned up to 11--but not in a particularly good way--look no further than James Silke's Deat...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Thune's Vision/Schuyler Hernstrom

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I love this cover... weird and trippy, violence beneath, like the contents. DMR Books/Dave Ritzlin has published my review of Thune's Vi...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

S&S updates: Scaling the walls of Venarium, and assorted essays

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A couple updates from my corner of S&S fandom. I’m psyched/pumped/jacked to announce that I was honored with the Venarium award from the...
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Saturday, June 4, 2022

RIP Ken Kelly

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When you get a Tweet from Joey DeMaio sending you off to the afterlife, you've done something right with your life, son. RIP Ken Kelly, ...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Conan the Barbarian (1982) at 40

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The barbarian triumphant... and contemplative. My latest post is up on DMR Books. Conan the Barbarian at 40 (can it really have been 40 yea...
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Friday, May 6, 2022

RIP Neal Adams

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Every year in May I go to a major conference that takes me out of action for the better part of a week. And when I say out of action, I mean...
Friday, March 18, 2022

Slinging sword-and-sorcery about the interwebs

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A couple recent posts up at two of my favorite hangouts: Catching up with Tom Barber, Classic S&S Artist,  at the blog of DMR Books. Dun...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Fantasy without Tolkien? Yes that happened, and yes it matters.

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My latest post is up on the blog of DMR Books: "Fantasy without Tolkien? Yes that happened, and yes it matters." Check it out here...
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Thursday, February 17, 2022

War of the Gods!

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I hadn't read War of the Gods  for the better part of 20 years, and a recent re-read confirmed it's a pretty darned good book. My so...
Saturday, January 8, 2022

Starting 2022 with Michael Moorcock’s The Swords Trilogy

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My latest post, and first of the year for DMR Books in 2022, is now up: Starting 2022 with Michael Moorcock’s The Swords Trilogy . I love Th...
Sunday, December 26, 2021

Things That Are Undone and Ought Not To Be: A Sword-and-Sorcery Studies Wish List

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My latest post is up on the blog of DMR Books. Check it out here . I blasted this one out in a couple hours while reflecting on what still n...