Showing posts with label Sword-and-Sorcery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sword-and-Sorcery. Show all posts
Saturday, March 14, 2026

To Leave A Warrior Behind by Jon Tattrie, a review

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“What blazed in Charles’s eyes? What was at his core? I think he planted it deep in his books, liberating himself. Readers purify their own ...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Are you getting Arcane Arts?

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Kane vs. the Werewolf by Jeff Easley. I just pressed publish on issue #5 of Arcane Arts , my free weekly newsletter of arcane miscellany. Th...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026

I played Gorgar

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I marveled at its glory... and writhed at my suck. … and I sucked at it.  This past weekend I took a short dude’s weekend trip to Southingto...
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Friday, February 20, 2026

Heavy metal, sword-and-sorcery, the Outsider ... and Iron Maiden's “Drifter”

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Anecdotally, readers of S&S listen to heavy metal in higher proportion than country or rap music. There are reasons for this. The sound ...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Unboxing Savagery

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It had been more than 30 years since I last bought an issue of the original Savage Sword of Conan*, and almost as long since I read one cove...
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Thursday, February 5, 2026

A couple of books I am looking forward to reading: The Tower and the Ruin; To Leave a Warrior Behind

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I don't know about you but my TBR pile is the size of a telephone pole. I have a towering pile of books I want to read, or re-read, and ...
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Saturday, January 31, 2026

Against the Demon World by Dave Ritzlin, a review

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( Note: I was given an advance reading copy of this book, which comes out next week.) It was a life of little but feeding, fighting, and for...
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Thursday, January 22, 2026

Happy 120th, REH!

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I live in the northeast. We’re in the middle of a cold snap in the dead of a rougher than usual New England winter and are expecting a huge ...
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Sunday, December 21, 2025

The Silver Key: 2025 in review

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T-800s like it here... but people too. Traffic to the blog EXPLODED in 2025. Unfortunately some of it appears to be robots, likely using my ...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Why I believe The Snow Women is a great story (and you might not)

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First appearance of this fantastic story? Fantastic . It feels hyperbolic to describe any sword-and-sorcery story as divisive. So few read t...
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Thursday, December 4, 2025

The Merman’s Children by Poul Anderson: A review

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Anderson must have been pissed at the spelling of "Faery" Did magic exist, once upon a time? Did the creatures of Faerie roam the ...
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Friday, November 28, 2025

Of Blind Guardian and The Quest for Tanelorn

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The City of Rest... Tanelorn. Michael Moorcock’s stories are populated with characters ill-fitted to their world, outsiders in lands where b...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

I am too busy to blog right now but here's three things to know...

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I’m a busy dude. I imagine most men and women with adult commitments are too, so no excuses. But this past 10 days has seen me fly to Texas ...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

We need tastemakers

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When I first started getting into sword-and-sorcery fiction, the internet was a fledgling, creaky, place. Charming, but impractical. Think b...
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Friday, October 10, 2025

The 70s were weird, man: Darrell Schweitzer’s We Are All Legends

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Sometimes the 1970s seem not so far away. Photos from my childhood confirm I was there; my old albums and books are a tangible affirmation. ...
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