Robert E. Howard’s James Allison in Comics
Roy Thomas sat in a unique position in the early 1970s. None of the Howard material had been adapted unless you count one very obscure Read More
Category: The Lord of the Rings
New Pulp: We Finally Got There
Twenty years ago I made it my mission to write as they did in the old days of Black Mask, Dime Detective and Thrilling Wonder Read More
The Forests of Forever: Thomas Burnett Swann
I can remember when I walked away from Fantasy in the late 1980s. I had read all the good stuff from the Pulp era, the Read More
An Interview With J. B. Toner
J.B. Toner studied Literature at Thomas More College and holds a black belt in Ohana Kilohana Kenpo-Jujitsu. He has held many occupations, from altar boy Read More
Asimov’s Golden Age
It is usually difficult to point to one book and say definitively, “That book changed me.” It is usually a gradual process with many books Read More
Death…Ten Feet Tall: Conan Vs. The Hulking Beast
Looking at covers for the old Conan the Barbarian comics, I was struck by a few thoughts. First off, a number of covers feature Conan Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery : Mike Ploog (1942-)
Mike Ploog is a comic book artist from the 1970s who later turned to the more lucrative designing movie characters and doing story boards. In Read More
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
Link: Fantasy, Oh Fantasy, Where Art Thou Gone?
The 1960s saw an explosion in heroic fantasy fiction with Ballantine’s The Lord of the Rings and the Lancer Conan paperbacks. Suddenly barbarians and hobbit-like Read More
The Iceberg Theory
Hollywood is searching for icebergs. I don’t mean a pointless sequel to Titanic, but story ideas that have a long, unseen history behind them. I Read More