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Category Archives: sff
Of Eeels and Miracles
The Surprised Eel on their Patreon gives us a very nice piece of writing that usefully complicates some over-simplified worldmaking advice. One thing that leapt out at me was this: “Of course, your fantasy world doesn’t have to work like … Continue reading
Bookalanche!
Past Me is sometimes a deadly enemy. For instance, he only left me two pieces of pizza from the other night so that I could celebrate the first day of True Summer with the Breakfast of Champions–cold pizza and hot … Continue reading
Posted in art, books, fantasy, fantasy art, magic, Myth & Legend, sff, sword-and-sorcery
Tagged Edmond Hamilton, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, Rosel George Brown
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“I’m Unavailable.”
The Dudley Moore Trio, which I did not know was a thing, plays an instrumental version of “Bedazzled”.
Posted in music, Myth & Legend, sff
Tagged Bedazzled, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook
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Science Fiction and Mr. Brown
Much of the short paragraph below by Fredric Brown is outdated and/or not meant to be taken seriously. But I like his conclusion about sf, which I would broaden to include fantasy (as sf often did in those now-distant days: … Continue reading
18th Century Mashup: White’s MISTRESS MASHAM’S REPOSE
I came to T.H. White’s brilliant fantasy Mistress Masham’s Repose (Putnam, 1946): immediately after reading two much inferior (but not worthless) books. One was by White himself, The Age of Scandal (Putnam, 1950), a social history of the later 18th … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures in the Public Domain, books, fantasy, history, language, sff, words
Tagged T.H. White
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Swords Against Silence
It’s been sometimes sad, sometimes joyous, but always a pleasure to hang out with people at Windy City Pulp and Paper and celebrate the life and work of Howard Andrew Jones. Too many stories were shared for me to scribble … Continue reading
Posted in books, fantasy, Heroic Fiction League, Myth & Legend, sff, sword-and-sorcery, writing
Tagged Howard Andrew Jones, Windy City Pulp & Paper
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Swords Against Style
For various reasons I’ve had a couple different essays under my eyes this afternoon: “Epic Pooh” (Moorcock’s Titanic body-slam against Tolkien and other “high” fantasists) and Tolkien’s “On Fairy-Stories”. All critical writing about fantasy needs to be taken with a … Continue reading