Showing posts with label Poul Anderson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poul Anderson. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Piecing together Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword

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My review/revisit/recap of/love letter to Anderson's magnificent 1954 novel is up on the blog of Tales from the Magician's Skull. Ch...
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Six Sought Adventure: A Half-Dozen Swords And Sorcery Short Stories Worth Your Summer Reading Time

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I’ve always enjoyed fantasy fiction in the short form. In an age when a typical series stretches seven-plus doorstopper sized volumes with...
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Thursday, December 1, 2011

The Demon of Scattery, a review

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I’ve had the Poul Anderson/Mildred Downey Broxon collaboration The Demon of Scattery (1979) sitting on my bookshelf for ages, and this past...
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Friday, June 17, 2011

The Broken Sword, an (audio) review

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Note: This post also appears on SFFaudio.com . The Viking Age of England offers fertile ground for storytelling. It was a time of strong men...
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Thursday, September 2, 2010

In the grip of “The Northern Thing:” My top 10 northern inspired stories

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Let us die in the doing of deeds for his sake; let fright itself run afraid from our shouts; let weapons measure the warrior’s worth. Thoug...
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: "Fantasy” a worthy entry in Anderson’s canon

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While others seek the passageway to elven realms in vain, Poul Anderson throws wide the gate to let his readers enter into wonder … Anderson...
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Friday, July 31, 2009

Hrolf Kraki in the Guardian

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As a longtime proponent of Poul Anderson's Hrolf Kraki's Saga , I was pleased today to see a review of this fine but mostly forgotte...
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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Top 10 fantasy fiction battles: Battle at Leidhra

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The ‘battle piece’, as a historical construction, is as old as Herodotus; as a subject of myth and saga it is even more antique. It is an ev...
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Monday, May 5, 2008

Hrolf Kraki's Saga: A viking warlord in King Arthur's court

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Though life is lost, one thing will outlive us: memory sinks not beneath the mould. Till the Weird of the World stands, unforgotten, high u...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

The Broken Sword: A masterpiece from the fantasy forge

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Poul Anderson is an author who seems to be largely ignored and unappreciated these days, save for those who are true fans of the fantasy an...