Now our art is threatened not by derivative authors, but by machines capable of turning it out in choking quantities. What happens if an AI-generated story is good? Can we read and enjoy it? Should we?
Read More“Writing is for the brave. No one is ever going to win over more than a very small particle of the entire reading audience. Write to have fun; if you are not having fun, don’t write. If you are writing primarily for money, well, there are easier ways to be poor.”
Read MoreThis week: Clark Ashton Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, Arkham House, Robert E. Howard, Piers Anthony, Macbeth, Stephen King, Celts and barbarians, and more.
Read MoreI’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 MoreSwain the Viking returns once more! DMR Books has already reprinted two volumes of Arthur D. Howden Smith’s critically acclaimed but hard to find historical adventure series, and the third shall appear in early April.
Read More“My “background as a writer” is a deep and misty vista. My first fantasy novel, Mooncrow, was released by a New York publisher in 1978. I’ve been writing full-time for the past several years and have three different fantasy series that I now consider complete.”
Read MoreThis week: Conan, Jim Fitzpatrick, Tanith Lee, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Weird Tales, Argosy, and more.
Read MorePeter Beresford Ellis is one of the foremost popularizers of Celtic fiction and non-fiction of the last hundred years. In addition, he has authored biographies of H. Rider Haggard and Talbot Mundy.
Read MoreIn the foreward Dariel explains to the reader the genesis of Orhan Timur. What if Genghis Khan had a blood-brother who had betrayed him? Would this hunted man ever give up his lost khanate?
Read MoreIf Roy Thomas is taken out of the reckoning, Doug Moench can lay a rock-solid claim to bringing more pulpish goodness to mainstream comics than any other comics scribe, living or dead. Even then, Doug gives Roy a run for his money.
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