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A gang steals a dangerous designer drug in a bid to control the streets of New Old Philly, a demonically-possessed warrior battles hellspawn in a post-cataclysmic world, and a victim of the inevitable zombie apocalypse writes a final letter to his ex-wife. Seems the gods of genre have blessed me with a perfect trifecta of [...]
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So, what did I bring back from this year’s D-con? A bad cold, for starts. But also some Gene Wolfe books signed in person by the Maestro himself, some dirt-cheap graphic novels, and a few other assorted textual tidbits. Of course, there are also some pictures (of which, I’m ashamed to say, I took far [...]
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Over at The Cimmerian — a website devoted to pulp and heroic fantasy of both the new and time-tested varieties — Deuce Richardson has just posted a great review of Rage of the Behemoth.
Of my own contribution to the anthology, ‘The Wolf of Winter,’ he had this to say:
Bill Ward delivers the grim and gritty goods [...]
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Rogue Blades Entertainment has just released its second anthology, and it’s a doozy. Three hundred plus pages of secondary world fantasy with a pulse, featuring stories in the classic Heroic Fantasy and Sword & Sorcery vein — but with a modern twist. Rage of the Behemoth’s overarching theme of heroes battling colossal creatures is further [...]
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Prolific online reviewer John Ottinger of Grasping for the Wind has just posted an early review of Rogue Blade’s forthcoming Rage of the Behemoth anthology, the follow up to 2008’s Return of the Sword. Behemoth has a more focused theme than Sword, as it deals specifically with the confrontation between man and large, powerful, fantastical [...]
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Sages & Swords, the 2005 follow-up to Lords of Swords, is an example of just how fine a small press anthology can be. If I didn’t already have my copy, the latest special offer from Rogue Blades Entertainment would have me jumping out of my gym shorts to get it. Follow this link and you’ll [...]
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Return of the Sword just got a great review over at BlackGate.com. Black Gate reviewer Ryan Harvey goes beyond simple summarization to get at the heart of the themes and story elements of the anthology’s nineteen tales, and he does a superb job of explaining to a genre-savvy reader just why he or she might [...]
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Return of the Sword just received a good review over at The Fix, a review site dedicated to genre fiction that looks at a lot of small press work. Reviewer Janice Clark, who acknowledges that sweaty heroics and clanging battles aren’t normally her preferred reading fare, seems genuinely impressed with the quality of the [...]
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