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, August 28, 2011

Current reading: A cultural clash in fantasy

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So I just finished reading The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman, the middle book of the His Dark Materials trilogy. I'm waiting until I ...
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Monday, August 22, 2011

The Golden Compass, a review

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I began reading The Golden Compass (1995), Book One of the His Dark Materials trilogy, with a fair bit of reserve—and, to be honest, a sli...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Some thoughts on the eve of Conan the Barbarian

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I’ve refrained from talking about Conan the Barbarian (2011) until now, despite my love for Robert E. Howard’s works. But now that we’re po...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

NPR releases survey results for Top 100 Science Fiction, Fantasy Books

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The results are in for NPR's Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy Books survey . You can view the complete list over on the NPR website, ...
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Monday, August 8, 2011

Imaro by Charles Saunders, a review

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Charles Saunders once stated that the impetus behind Imaro (the eponymous protagonist of his 1980 novel Imaro ) was a simple urge to create ...
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Friday, August 5, 2011

Get out the vote: NPR poll on top 100 SF/F titles of all time

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If you haven't already heard, NPR has an open poll on the top 100 science fiction/fantasy titles of all time. To participate in the poll...
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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Breathing Life Into Dead Gods: The Allegory of Love by C.S. Lewis

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The old gods, when they ceased to be taken as gods, might so easily have been suppressed as devils: that, we know, is what happened to our i...
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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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