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Category Archives: fantasy
Foreshadows of Hanuvar
Aya Katz talks with Howard Andrew Jones about LORD OF A SHATTERED LAND, his great book coming out soon from Baen.
Posted in books, fantasy, fantasy art, history, Myth & Legend, sword-and-sorcery, writing
Tagged Howard Andrew Jones
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“Numberless Are the World’s Wonders…”: Clifford Simak’s CITY
Here’s Davis Meltzer’s cover for the 1970s-era Ace edition of Clifford Simak’s City, an early entry onto my “Always Reread” list. I disliked this cover when I was a kid because of the anthropoid greenmetal skull with human teeth. Now … Continue reading
Posted in books, dogs, fantasy, fantasy art, music, sff
Tagged Clifford Simak, Sophocles
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Napping in the Bookroom
Reuben Sandwich (PhD, DND, CBD, etc.) takes a brief respite from researching heroic fantasy.
Posted in dogs, fantasy, sff, sword-and-sorcery, werewolves
Tagged Reuben Sandwich
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Fellowship of the Thing
Apologies for my relative silence on social media. I’m engaged on a lunatic plan to write a pair of novels over the summer, and I’ve made some significant progress. This evening I got north of 20,000 words on one (a … Continue reading
Posted in academia, fantasy, language, Myth & Legend, social media, writing
Tagged Old Norse, saga
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Outline or Straight-Out Lying?
Whenever I’m writing anything substantial, there comes a moment where I look at the outline and am reminded of this old Sidney Harris cartoon. If it’s a fantasy novel, frequently what’s required is an actual miracle. Those are the easy … Continue reading
Don’t Put an Otch in My Nadder!
Apparently English notch arises from a word-division error due to the English movable n: it wasn’t originally a notch, it was an otch (cf. French oche “a notch”). So says the AHD and the tyrant OED. This is analogous to … Continue reading
Posted in art, books, fantasy, fantasy art, sff, sword-and-sorcery, words
Tagged E.R. Eddison, Keith Henderson, The Worm Ouroboros
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Pointing Toward the End
Wearing my grading face (which strongly resembles Mung making the Sign of Mung).
Posted in academia, art, books, dogs, fantasy, fantasy art, Myth & Legend, sff
Tagged Lord Dunsany
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Joans Against the Moon Men
I misread a student’s handwriting and thought they had written “Prester Joan” (instead of “Prester John”). Now I can’t stop thinking of Prester Joan teaming up with Pope Joan to, I don’t know, conquer the moon or something. [edited to … Continue reading
Posted in academia, art, fantasy, fantasy art, history, Myth & Legend, sword-and-sorcery, words
Tagged Norvell Page
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The Hood, the Bad, and the Bitey
I was looking up something else in Cleasby & Vigfusson’s Old Norse dictionary when my eye fell on gríma, meaning “a kind of hood or cowl”; by extension “the night”. A lot of badasses, starting with Óðin, are called Grímr … Continue reading
Posted in art, fantasy, fantasy art, Myth & Legend, words
Tagged J.R.R. Tolkien, Old Norse
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The Dark Tower Is Thrown Down
Happy Downfall-of-Sauron Day, but remember: “Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.”
Posted in fantasy, fantasy art, politics
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