Showing posts with label Sword-and-Sorcery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sword-and-Sorcery. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

50 years of Savage Sword of Conan, and beyond

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Ahh, no. 29, I love you. Love them all... Savage Sword of Conan debuted August 1974.  I was just one year old. Probably a little young to be...
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Death Dealer 3: Semi-enjoyable (?) train-wreck

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I’m back at it again, with a long-awaited review of Death Dealer 3: Tooth and Claw . Check out my reviews of book 1 and book 2 of this fou...
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Saturday, December 23, 2023

The Silver Key: 2023 in review

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It’s the tail end of 2023. Another trip round the sun, another year of blogging on The Silver Key. Many things of import happened this year....
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

RIP David Drake

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David Drake has passed away. I’m no Drake scholar and unqualified to evaluate his life and career or the majority of his creative output, in...
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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Lord of a Shattered Land: A review

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Hanuvar has lost it all—his land, his people, and his family—following a disastrous military defeat. Narrowly escaping his own death and pre...
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Assessing the sword-and-sorcery "glut"

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Jason Ray Carney recently weighed in on an issue that’s been on my mind, too: The glut of new sword-and-sorcery fiction . Asks Jason: Becaus...
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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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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Part II of S&S interview video up on YouTube

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Part II of a video interview I did with Jan, The Brilliance of S&S, is now up on YouTube. Check it out here. Part I is available here ....
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Saturday, July 8, 2023

1979 Ken Kelly heroic fantasy calendar, month-by-month

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Let's look inside, shall we? And return to an age undreamed of ....1979. Among my prized finds at 2023 Howard Days was this bad boy. A ...
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Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Talking sword-and-sorcery on YouTube and my current reading

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Prior to my vacation to the Outer Banks I was invited to speak with Jan, a cool dude from the UK with a YouTube channel that covers pulp fic...
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, May 4, 2023

Going Rogue(s) with another 2023 Howard Days recap

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This week I was invited to join the wonderful sword-and-sorcery podcast Rogues in the House to continue the discussion about Robert E. Howar...
Monday, May 1, 2023

There and back again from Massachusetts to Cross Plains: A recap of 2023 Robert E. Howard Days

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Ken Lizzi, me, and Deuce, on sacred ground. That Saturday morning long ago remains fresh in my mind. The day I stumbled across a hoard of Sa...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Howard Days are upon me

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Two days from now I shall be standing upon the soil of Cross Plains attending my first Robert E. Howard Days. This shit is real. Some news s...
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Are we in a new sword-and-sorcery renaissance? Not yet. At least commercially.

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Some corners of the internet are speculating whether we’re in a third sword-and-sorcery wave. This assumes a first, unnamed wave in which S&...
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Saturday, April 1, 2023

Heroes behaving badly: The wondrous and bastardly creations of Jack Vance

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S&S protagonists: Occasionally lovable scumbags. Cugel the Clever probably isn’t a guy you want to invite to dinner. You’d be guaranteed...