“I have no idea what readers expect. I know what I like, so that's what I write. Someone reading one of my stories with a particular idea of how the story will go is likely to be disappointed--or perhaps pleasantly surprised.”
Read MoreThe Wells of Ur is the newest anthology from indie publisher Pilum Press. The Wells of Ur comprises four stories with cities being the common thread.
Read MoreThis week: Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser/Wonder Woman crossover, Howard Days, pirates, Guy Gavriel Kay, and more.
Read MoreJohn Taliaferro has given us the living, breathing Edgar Rice Burroughs and shown us what a wonderful writer he was. He shows ERB as a courageous and admirable man, a patriot and a family man. Tarzan Forever is also a good book for anyone who wants to understand the pulps and how they produced the finest American stories.
Read MoreThe late 1960s and early ‘70s were peak sword-and-sorcery. The Lancer Conan Saga was at its zenith of popularity, eventually selling by some estimates upwards of 10 million copies. And as the ‘60s gave way to the ‘70s a struggling magazine was about to get a signal boost from S&S’s mightiest hero.
Read MoreAdrian Cole is a veteran of the fantasy/SF/horror scene. The first book in his most ambitious project to date, the War on Rome series, was just released. Read on to learn more of Arminius, Bane of Eagles, plus his other works, past, present, and future.
Read MoreToday marks the thirtieth anniversary of when Fritz Leiber departed this mortal coil. At the venerable age of eighty-one, he left behind him a truly great legacy in the fields of fantasy, science fiction and horror, not to mention the realms of literary criticism and role-playing games. When he died, Leiber had already influenced the likes of Ramsey Campbell, Michael Moorcock, Harlan Ellison, Terry Pratchett, Glen Cook, Tim Powers, Neil Gaiman and Michael Chabon, demonstrating the sheer breadth of what he had wrought.
Read MoreThis week: Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Stephen Fabian, Jack Vance, Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, a Jirel of Joiry RPG/board game, and more.
Read MoreThis is the debut celebration of the date when H.P. Lovecraft bestowed upon Clark Ashton Smith the ‘Mythos name’ of “Klarkash-Ton”, while also creating a persona/backstory to go with the sobriquet.
Read MoreFrank Kelly Freas, rightly called “The Dean of Science Fiction Artists”, enjoyed a fifty-year run, winning Hugo after Hugo. He began his career painting covers for Weird Tales and ended it as a stone-cold legend in his chosen field. His art defined the look of “Classic Sci-Fi”.
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