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

Sunday, June 26, 2011

A Short Rest

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For anyone following The Silver Key , I'll be heading to our family's equivalent of Rivendell (a place that's internet free) and...
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Saturday, June 25, 2011

(Closing in on) 100 years of Tarzan of the Apes

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Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes was first published in All-Story Magazine in 1912, which means that we’re closing in on 100 years...
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Thursday, June 23, 2011

First official photos of The Hobbit released

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From Entertainment Weekly . So far so good, though I can’t say I’m surprised, given the precedent set by the wonderful scenery and set-piece...
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Friday, June 17, 2011

The Broken Sword, an (audio) review

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Note: This post also appears on SFFaudio.com . The Viking Age of England offers fertile ground for storytelling. It was a time of strong men...
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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Any other Edguy fans out there?

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German power metal band Edguy is hard to pin down. On one album you're likely to hear medieval fantasy flavored songs in the vein of Ir...
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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, a review

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John Joseph Adams has a well-earned reputation as The Man Who Delivers Anthologies. Barnes & Noble.com has dubbed him “the reigning kin...
Monday, June 6, 2011

Books: This is Exactly How They Work

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An arresting image making the rounds: http://a.yfrog.com/img13/8364/21063920857041414761211.jpg I'm not sure who the credit for this pie...
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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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