A Brief History of Sword & Sorcery
So, What the Heck Did You Think It Was Made Of? This piece is a condensed history dedicated to a sub-genre of fantasy called “Sword Read More
So, What the Heck Did You Think It Was Made Of? This piece is a condensed history dedicated to a sub-genre of fantasy called “Sword Read More
I recently heard that ASB is a neologism used by writers of Alternate History Science Fiction. The term refers to an implausible idea based on Read More
Writers of the fantastic have had to make peace with an idea that may not sit well with them. That is quite simply, once you Read More
Every since 1954, people have been trying to resurrect Weird Tales as if it were an undead corpse in a tale by H. P. Lovecraft. Read More
In our last segment I mention four great stories I would want you to enjoy. This time the sentiment is more, well if you don’t Read More
Uninformed critics have written off the Thongor novels as a bad Conan the Barbarian copy. This really isn’t true. Thongor the character is very much Read More
The 1980s were not kind to Sword & Sorcery. What started as an explosion in the 1960s became a marketable sub-genre by the 1970s, but Read More
The Barbarian Age was not a remote time after the fall of Rome but the years 1968 to 1981 or so. Beginning with the Lancer Read More
I’ve been spending a lot of time amongst the Pulps lately. And it begs the question: what is the appeal of these old, flaking, brown Read More
One of the last books published by the Ballantine Fantasy Series (BFS) was Imaginary Worlds (1973) by Lin Carter. I recently picked up a copy Read More