Showing posts with label Thoughts on fantasy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thoughts on fantasy. Show all posts
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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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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Friday, August 22, 2025

Revisiting H.P. Lovecraft's "The Silver Key"

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I don’t expend a lot of digital ink on H.P. Lovecraft, but everything I do is related in one way or other to the old gent from Providence (b...
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Thursday, July 3, 2025

The Shining Wire

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They knew well enough what was happening. But even to themselves they pretended that all was well, for the food was good, they were protecte...
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Some further thoughts on generative AI art

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We’re getting increasingly embedded into machinery. The future is almost certainly cyborg, flesh and circuitry melded together. It is alread...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck, a review

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John Steinbeck is rightly remembered these days as a Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Grapes of Wrath and secondarily, East of Eden; a...
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Sunday, March 9, 2025

We're living in an outrage machine

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Tanith Lee = anti-outrage. Ronnie James Dio once sang that you’re living in a time machine . Today we’re all living in an outrage machine. I...
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Wednesday, February 5, 2025

An interesting personal insight into Moorcock’s inspirations

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Was just listening to an interview with Michael Moorcock on the Monsters, Madness and Magic podcast (recommended BTW). Co-host Dave Ritzlin...
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Sunday, December 29, 2024

The Silver Key: 2024 in review

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Life is pretty good these days, both personally and creatively. Even though I slowed down a bit on the blog, I’m making an impact. Life is i...
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Sunday, December 15, 2024

Some interpretations of the ambiguous ending of The Green Knight (2021)

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If you haven’t seen The Green Knight , and don’t wish to be spoiled, stop here before you enter the Green Chapel and its perils. Thou hast b...
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Friday, October 11, 2024

More (mediocre) content is not better than no content: A rant

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Once in a while you’ve got to let off some steam ( Bennett) . For most, that means punching a heavy bag, screaming into a pillow, maybe goin...
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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Weird Tales of Modernity: Elevating the artistry of the Weird Tales Three

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Pulp and other forms of genre fiction have become not just an accepted form of entertainment, but an acknowledged outlet for meaningful arti...
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