10 Sword & Sorcery 1950s Firsts
If you missed the last one… This post is brought to you by Jack Mackenzie’s Blades & Alchemy. This is the first in a two-volume Read More
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What Others Think: 20 Sword & Sorcery Books
This post is brought to you by Bearshirt #5 The Beacon House and Other Stories by G. W. Thomas. The six short stories in this Read More
Sword & Sorcery: The First Paperbacks
This post is brought to you by the upcoming collection of young Arthan stories, Bearshirt #5: The Beacon House, the fifth book in the series Read More
Fred Saberhagen’s Berserkers II
If you missed the last one… Before the Death Star, there were Berserkers. I am talking visually, of course. Star Wars‘ Death Star is a Read More
LINK: What Is the Single Best Sword & Sorcery Anthology?
A reader, who I will call Utahjim, asked me a great question the other day. He had been reading L. Sprague de Camp’s The Spell Read More
Top Ten Favorite Swords in Heroic Fantasy
The enchanted sword has been a part of heroic fantasy since the beginning. Beowulf slays Grendel’s mother with an elder blade he conveniently finds in Read More
Winged Humans
If you missed the last one… The idea that people will encounter aliens out in space that have wings is an obvious Christian-based concept. In Read More
Home is the Hunter
If you missed the last one… As Robert Louis Stevenson said in “Requiem”… “Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from Read More
The Interplanetary Graveyard: The Sargasso of Space
If you missed the last one… In previous posts we have talked about exiles and castaways in space, but where do all those ships end Read More
Welcome to the Human Zoo
If you missed the last one… Welcome to the Human Zoo! This old SF idea has been bugging me for a while. How old is Read More