Bill Ward's blog of all things genre
Title: The Tears of Ishtar Author: Michael Ehart Genre: Historical/Sword & Sorcery Year: 2010 (2007) Fans of Michael Ehart’s 2007 release The Servant of the Manthycore (Double-Edged Publishing) will find a lot of familiar ground in The Tears of Ishtar – in fact the later book contains all of the stories collected in the former, [...]
{ 0 comments }
Title: The Prow Beast Author: Robert Low Genre: Historical Year: 2010 It was with some sorrow that I came to the last page in Robert Low’s The Prow Beast — the fourth and, sadly (for now?), final book in the excellent Oathsworn saga. Beginning with 2007′s The Whale Road, the Oathsworn series has followed Orm [...]
{ 0 comments }
This interview originally appeared at Black Gate Online. The great thing about interviewing Howard Andrew Jones is that it is impossible to run out of interesting things to talk about. That’s because Howard has been busy. Busy writing stories, busy preserving the legacy of an unsung founder of historical adventure, busy editing Black Gate Magazine. [...]
{ 0 comments }
Recently I wrote an essay about the dangers of too much ‘realistic thinking’ in fantasy fiction — When Realism Isn’t Real — Conan the Jazzerciser. In that article I used an example from Poul Anderson’s Conan pastiche Conan the Rebel to illustrate my point. The following post, which originally appeared at Black Gate, is a [...]
{ 6 comments }
An entry over at Joe Abercrombie’s blog about his encounter with a neighbor boy who hadn’t even heard of D&D got me reflecting on many of the things Abercrombie himself covers in his post. He and I are about the same age, and belong to a pre-internet, pre-500 cable channels, pre-iPhone generation that entertained ourselves [...]
{ 3 comments }
A little while ago writer Matthew David Surridge penned a hefty trilogy of articles at Black Gate that look in depth at his rereading of The Lord of the Rings. It’s great stuff and well-worth the time to digest, and Surridge really dives into his subject and tries to arrive at just what it is [...]
{ 0 comments }
