Link: Size Does (Not) Matter: The New Paradigm
A good friend, writer Jack Mackenzie, got me thinking about book lengths in Science Fiction and how they have been tied to publishing. He also Read More
Category: Fantasy
Sword & Sorcery Favorites You Might Have Missed IV
With favorites you are always going to find others who have read those stories, and to those people I will apologize, but it surprises me Read More
Link: Not Quite Sword & Sorcery: Early Fantasy
Robert E. Howard may have invented Sword & Sorcery with the first King Kull tale, but he was not the only author working with the Read More
Link: Blue Pencils and Bloody Swords: Editors of S&S
It’s easy to discuss authors for their contributions are evident. You just have to read the stories. The great editors are harder to corral, for Read More
Pulp Artist/Comic Artist
Doing research on my favorite Pulp artists at Field Guide to Wild American Artists, I found the end of each biography was almost always “and Read More
The ‘Barely-There’ Costumes (and Plot) of Zardoz
The 1970’s was a curious decade for science fiction films. Almost every science fiction film released in this decade ended up being overshadowed by the Read More
King Kull Covers
Conan the Barbarian will always be Robert E. Howard’s top dog but there are those of us who enjoy Kull just as much. (In Robert Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Vincente Alcazar (1944-)
Spanish-born artist, he found work in America thanks to Gray Morrow and Neal Adams who recommended him to publishers. Much of his work was in Read More
Link: Cosmic Mojo – Part 2
The authors of cosmic creepiness mentioned in the previous piece, “Cosmic Mojo Part 1”, were English, for Lovecraft was an anglophile of the first order. Read More
Link: Cosmic Mojo – Part 1
Critics of horror fiction have labeled Lovecraft’s brand of storytelling “cosmic” horror to differentiate it from the regular legions of werewolves and murderers that filled Read More