Keith Taylor: The 2023 Birthday Interview
Keith Taylor has a new Felimid novel in the works: Sunspear. In this interview, Keith talks about everything from Cormac Mac Art to the ‘Bard’ series and upcoming projects.
Read MoreBarry Windsor-Smith's Enigmatic Print, "The Enchantment"
There are several elements in “The Enchantment” that make it stand out as one of Barry Windsor-Smith’s more mysterious works. Let’s take a look.
Read MoreWhat If? -- Jim FitzPatrick and the 'Danans' Novels
I’ve long thought about what a shame it was that Irish fantasy artist extraordinaire, Jim FitzPatrick, hadn’t been hired by Ace Books to do the covers for Keith Taylor’s ‘Danans’ series of heroic fantasy novels. Thus, this post.
Read MoreKeith Taylor’s Other Fantasy Series
Most readers of Sword and Sorcery are fans of Keith Taylor’s Bard series of stories and novels set in historical Post-Roman Britain. They are indeed some of the best S&S tales to come out of the late '70s/early '80s, but some folks might not know of some of his other heroic fantasy/S&S works that came later. I’m talking about The Danans trilogy of Historical Fantasy, published in the late '80s and early '90s.
Read MoreREVIEW: The Lost Empire of Sol
“Sword and Planet is my favorite genre. Traditionally an earthman arrives somehow, and has to make his way on an alien world with his wits and prowess. When I heard about this anthology I was very excited. What I encountered was something different than I was expecting.”
Read MoreComing This Fall: Samhain Sorceries
DMR Books has a Halloween treat in store for fans of both horror and fantasy: the new anthology Samhain Sorceries! In these haunting tales of swords and sorcery, the dead will rise, dark rituals will be performed, and gateways to the afterworld will open.
Read MoreKlarkash-Ton's Sword-and-Sorcery: Another Look
It seemed to me that I should revisit my old essay for The Cimmerian blog, “The Sword-and-Sorcery Legacy of Clark Ashton Smith”. While recognition of Klarkash-Ton as the co-founder of Sword-and-Sorcery has increased since I wrote that essay in 2010—most notably in Brian Murphy’s excellent Flame and Crimson—it appears to me that Smith’s influence on the S&S genre is still very undervalued.
Read MoreThe 'Lost Tales' of Keith Taylor
Keith Taylor celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday today. That got me thinking about his literary legacy. While Mr. Taylor has more books in print—digitally—at this moment than at any time since the 1980s, there are quite a few of his short stories that have never been reprinted. Many of them are closely connected to his ‘Bard’ tales of Felimid mac Fal. Others are something of a mystery even to me…
Read MoreGiving Thanks for Poul Anderson
During his fifty-year career, Poul Anderson wrote numerous classics—major and minor—that fans of SFF should be thankful for. In my opinion, Poul is quite possibly the greatest science fiction author to ever pound a keyboard. He is also one of the finest fantasy authors to ever spin a yarn.
Read MoreKeith Taylor - The DMR Interview, Part Two
In Part Two of this interview, Keith Taylor talks about his writing career including two novels featuring the Robert E. Howard hero Cormac Mac Art, both co-written with Andrew Offutt, his health, and his current works in progress.
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