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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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As a kind of follow-up to my unsettling experiences as chronicled in ‘No Books For You,’ I’ve bloggated an ode to the act of browsing for books in actual, physical, honest-to-goodness brink-and-mortar bookstores. You remember those — the places we used to get all our books back before the Jetsons became reality and robots started [...]
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I recently saw a very interesting documentary on a group of LARPers (Live Action Role Players) who, strangely enough, happen to be practically in my own backyard. I’ve blogged about Darkon over at Black Gate this week. It chronicles the lives — both in-game and real world — of an unconventional group of weekend warriors [...]
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If you spend a lot of time outside of your everyday woes, if you indulge in, as it’s often termed, ‘escapism,’ then doesn’t that become as real a part of yourself as anything else? I’m not talking about confusing reality with fantasy like Tom Hanks’ disastrous LARPing epidsode, but how transcending the mundane through literature, [...]
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Over at the B-to-the-G this week I blogged about a recent trip to the toy store, an almost singular event in my life. In it I start sort of awestruck about just how ubiquitous fantasy and science fiction has become in the world of children’s toys, and some of the weirder things I encountered on [...]
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Over at the BG this week I posted briefly about how much I’m looking forward to the HBO project to give Martin’s A Game of Thrones – a book I haven’t even read — the series treatment. I think this show, assuming it gets made, has the potential to change the way adults see fantasy [...]
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This week at Black Gate I was thrilled to step back into the lands of Nyumbani in my review of the third book in Charles R. Saunders’ superb Imaro saga. Imaro: The Trail of Bohu ramps up the action and increases the stakes over the previous two volumes (both of which I reviewed here), and [...]
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