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

Friday, August 27, 2021

The Fantastic S&S contributions of Cele Goldsmith

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Fafhrd and GM going at it, for show, in "The Lords of Quarmall" Oliver Brackenbury, host of the Unknown Worlds of the Merrill Coll...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Men of Iron, Howard Pyle

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Any Howard Pyle fans in the house? If so, or if you're looking for fun, old-school, historical fiction adventure, my review of Pyle'...
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Saturday, August 14, 2021

RIP Steve Perrin

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Just heard of the passing of game designer Steve Perrin , best known as one of the key creators of perhaps my favorite RPG of all time, Rune...
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Monday, August 9, 2021

The Dark Man: Journal of Robert E. Howard studies, vol. 12.1

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I took a (small, calculated, $8) risk on the latest volume of The Dark Man: Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Studies , purchasing it bas...
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Saturday, August 7, 2021

Technopoly, Neil Postman

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Finished Neil Postman’s Technopoly the other day, and loved it, and was enlightened by it, challenged by it. It was very interesting to rea...
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Friday, August 6, 2021

Sepultura, The Hunt

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I was a huge Sepultura fan back in the day, when Max Cavalera was fronting the band. They put out 3-4 stone cold classic albums in that peri...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

The problem with reviews

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I get asked for book reviews, with some amount of frequency. I don’t blame anyone for asking me, or asking others, to review their book. N...
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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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