Showing posts with label Sword-and-Sorcery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sword-and-Sorcery. Show all posts
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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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Of pastiche and John C. Hocking’s Conan and the Living Plague

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These dead are unquiet... I don’t mind pastiche … which is I suppose a bit of a lukewarm way of saying I support it. Nonetheless it’s how I ...
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Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Celtic Adventures wrapup and on into Cimmerian September

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Worth your 10 cents... I just closed the cover on DMR Books’ latest release, Celtic Adventures , and had to say a few words about the final ...
Friday, August 15, 2025

"Mystification," Manilla Road

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Dialing up a bit of Manilla Road this Metal Friday, one of the most swordly-and-sorcerous metal bands ever.  I love the atmosphere of "...
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Sunday, August 3, 2025

Sword of the Gael by Andrew J. Offutt, a review

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Sword-and-sorcery typically works better in the short form than the novel, and I think I know why. It’s a lot harder to sustain breakneck ac...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

A sorely needed, swordly-and-sorcerous week off

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It's 5 o'clock somewhere ... My grandfather had fabulous foresight. After WW2 he and his buddy bought a piece of property in the lak...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

S&S publishing news: Plunder-a-plenty

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Lots of swords, lots of sorcery going on. My friend Ken Lizzi, one of the dudes with whom I split a house rental at 2023 Robert E. Howard Da...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

I've finally got it: Monster Tales: Vampires, Werewolves & Things

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Pumped for this delivery. When I was a kid I used to regularly check out Monster Tales: Vampires, Werewolves & Things  (1973, Rand McNal...
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