Bill Ward's blog of all things genre
Last freitag a guest post of mine appeared over at Rogue Blades Entertainment’s new blog platform, the Home of Heroics. When Realism Isn’t Real — Conan the Jazzerciser takes one example from a Poul Anderson Conan pastiche and goes to town with it, looking at how ‘realistic thinking’ can sometimes blind an author to the [...]
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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 [...]
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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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