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For those of you who might be using the mafia/farm management simulator known as Facebook, Black Gate now has its very own page, which I’ve invited everyone to join in this week’s BG post. Why would you add BG to your already swollen list of fan pages, especially if there aren’t any weapons caches or [...]
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Anyone following this blog knows I’m absolutely bananas for a relatively new series called the Oathsworn Saga, from author Robert Low. The Oathsworn is a pitch-perfect historical adventure following a group of far-faring Vikings through the 10th century. I’ve had the pleasure of reading and reviewing the first three books in this projected four-volume series [...]
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Just when I thought 2009 had said all it was going to say I see the announcement over at Black Gate that the fourth book in the Imaro saga — that’s right, the never-before-read-or-seen-by-human-eyes fourth book — has just been released from Sword & Soul. With less than twelve hours left in the year, this [...]
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Another reprint review over at the Black Gate site this week, this one also from the last issue. It’s a review of a very fun alt-history Weird Western called Pax Dakota from Ken Rand, which treats us to an agnostic Amerindian and a Prairie Prostitute battling the disembodied corpse-possessing spirit of the Old Enemy. It’s [...]
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This month has primarily been about reading books for the review section of the upcoming issue of Black Gate. So, aside from a Hellboy graphic novel I snuck in at the beginning of the month, and Iain M. Banks’ Against A Dark Background which I read on the plane to and from Atlanta (and which [...]
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I‘ve Bloggated a rather long post all about what belongs on a viking’s head over at BG today entitled ‘Getting It Right — and Wrong — on Film.’ Actually, I did manage to range a bit beyond the headware topic to include garments of other kinds:
The film spares no trick in getting the celebratory atmosphere [...]
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Since I refuse to interact with anyone under the age of twenty-five, I seldom have any idea just what’s going on beneath all the ridiculous floppy hair of today’s young’uns. Joe Abercrombie recently blogged about a conversation with a young boy in which the boy denied any and all awareness of Dungeons & Dragons. Reading [...]
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