Sword & Sorcery Break & Enter
There is a small group of Sword & Sorcery tales that involve a hero in a break & enter into a wizard’s domicile. This is Read More
Tag: Roger Zelazny
Science Fiction Across the Genres
Science Fiction runs the gamut as it burns across the genres. You might think an SF story has to be robots, spaceships, time travel or Read More
The Arthur W. Saha Year’s Best Fantasy
Arthur W. Saha (1923-1999) was editor for DAW’s Year’s Best Fantasy #7-14 (1981-1988). The previous editor had been Lin Carter, whose selections leaned towards Sword Read More
The Sapphire Siren & Portal Fantasy
“The Sapphire Siren” was an unusual tale from an author with an equally odd name, Nyctzin Dyalhis. The story appeared in Weird Tales, February 1934 Read More
A Night in the Lonesome October: A Game
A Night in the Lonesome October is a 1993 novel by Roger Zelazny. Some Octobers I like to play a game with it. The book Read More
The Towers of Fantasy
The Pulps The towers of fantasy fiction have always been locations of sorcery, mystery and strife. If the bad guy lives in a tower, whether Read More
The Passage of Dilvish
Roger Zelazny’s Dilvish the Damned had two distinct periods of development, separated by a twelve year hiatus. The first explosion of story writing was in Read More
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: Sword & Sorcery Cliche #3: The Wizard With the Unpronounceable Name
The barbarian hero hacks his way through an army of undead to finally come face-to-face with the evil necromancer who has been terrorizing the countryside. Read More
Link: Funny Mythos: Comedy & Tentacles
A new comic book called Arcane Secrets by Angel A. Svoboda (Amigo Comics) got me thinking that there aren’t many Lovecraftian comedies out there. In Read More