The Silver Key

"Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other." --H.P. Lovecraft, The Silver Key

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay—a review

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A common criticism leveled at fantasy is that it’s all about monsters and magic and plot and fails to address the human condition, and there...
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Thursday, December 23, 2010

My top five reads of 2010

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For my final post of 2010 I thought I would revisit something from my days as a writer for the now-defunct Cimmerian blog: My top 5 reads o...
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Monday, December 20, 2010

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond—a review

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Guns, Germs, and Steel is one of those books I’ve heard so much about—mostly in the positive—that it was only a matter of time before I got...
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Thursday, December 9, 2010

AMC’s The Walking Dead: Devouring six million viewers, and me

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Confession: I watch almost no TV. Well, that’s not quite true: NFL football, an occasional news program, and the odd episode of The Simpsons...
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Saturday, December 4, 2010

Lansdale and Keene: Two tastes that taste great together

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Over the last couple weeks I’ve managed to plow through two of Joe Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard series of novels and Brian Keene’s City of the...
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Thursday, November 25, 2010

The Lion of Cairo by Scott Oden, a review

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I think it’s totally cool that the dedication page of Scott Oden’s forthcoming novel The Lion of Cairo (U.S. publication date Dec. 7) pays ...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

A review of Blind Guardian, Nov. 21 at Worcester Palladium

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Until last night, Blind Guardian was on a short list of heavy metal bands that I’ve always wanted to see live, but for whom time and circums...
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Brian Murphy
Marketing professional by day; skald in the Hall of Fire by night; and member of the S.H.I.E.L.D.W.A.L.L. Author of Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery (2020, Pulp Hero Press). Essayist and reviewer for numerous web and print-based fantasy and sword-and-sorcery publications, including The Cimmerian, Black Gate, Tales from the Magician's Skull, Mythprint, REH: Two-Gun Raconteur, The Dark Man, DMR Blog, Skelos, and SFFaudio.com. Two-time Robert E. Howard Foundation award winner: The Atlantean (Outstanding Achievement/Book for Flame and Crimson) and The Venarium (emerging scholar in REH studies).
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