Links of Steel, 4/2/2023
This week: Jack Vance, Conan, Tarzan, Clark Ashton Smith, Michael Whelan, John Jakes, Weird Tales, and more.
Read MoreAdventure in All Its forms – A Review of Cirsova Magazine's Spring 2023 Issue
The first Cirsova Magazine of 2023 does not disappoint. It’s full of wonderfully weird stories. Please be aware that there are some very minor spoilers in the reviews that follow.
Read MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: Glenn Rahman (Part Two)
“My brother and I visited the Providence Lovecraftian sites. These included the addresses of the still-standing Lovecraft residences and also the specific city sights that had inspired his stories. Significant among the latter was the church from “Haunter of the Dark” and the “burying grounds” featured in multiple stories, including The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.”
Read MoreLinks of Steel, 3/26/2023
This week: Tanith Lee, Weird Tales, Robert E. Howard, Thongor, viking films, and a new heavy metal track featuring Michael Moorcock.
Read MoreJohn Jakes: 1932-2023
In a literary career spanning seven decades, John Jakes established himself as a mainstay of American popular fiction. He started in the pulps, made the bestseller lists and died a millionaire. Two genre categories that Jakes made his mark on—swashbuckling historical adventure and sword-and-sorcery—are directly in the wheelhouse of DMR Blog readers.
Read MoreWhy (Human Generated) Sword-and-Sorcery?
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 MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: Glenn Rahman (Part One)
“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 MoreLinks of Steel, 3/19/2023
This week: Clark Ashton Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, Arkham House, Robert E. Howard, Piers Anthony, Macbeth, Stephen King, Celts and barbarians, and more.
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 MoreThe Saga of Swain the Viking Volume III: Swain Kingsbane Coming Soon
Swain 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.
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