Bill Ward's blog of all things genre
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 [...]
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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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