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In good news for readers of adventure fiction, the late lamented e-zine Flashing Swords, founded by the irreplaceable Howard A. Jones, is relaunching in Fall 2007 with a new slate of editors. Candidly, I don’t know the work of the … Continue reading →

This probably falls into that very large category of “Things Everybody Knows Except Me” but apparently a group of dedicated fans has been producing a series of webisodes that continue the original “Five Year Mission” of the Enterprise. This entails … Continue reading →

a.) “Sword and Planet” stories and Edgar Rice Burroughs have both come up in recent threads on the usually (too) quiet swordandsorcery community. 2.) The wise and the good tell us to “write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives … Continue reading →

Both morbid and lighthearted, here’s the paradigmatic Bergman parody De Düva by George Coe. (It’s also the first film of the unspeakably great Madeline Kahn, apparently.) If the embedded video below doesn’t work you might try Google video directly or … Continue reading →

John O’Neill has put up a preview of Black Gate 11 (which will include a Morlock novella, “The Lawless Hours”). Things I never knew (or forgot about) until recently: There are “Black Gates” all over the world: in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, in … Continue reading →

Ingmar Bergman has died. Fritz Leiber (one of the world’s great fantasists) considered him one of the world’s great fantasists.

Hilary Mantel mulls over myth, death, music and a production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo, mixed up with memories of her ghostlike father and (incongruously) Princess Diana. The myth that Diana-cult makes me think of isn’t so much Orpheus & Eurydice but … Continue reading →

The Weekly World News “the world’s only reliable newspaper” is ceasing publication. It was just like Lucian’s True History with ugly black and white photos. The cool thing about reading The Weekly World News was that you never really knew … Continue reading →

Synchronicity can happen at any time (as someone cleverer than me once said–probably Sting or Harlan Ellison). Yesterday I ran across two Troy-related items on the web. First, Cecil Adams at The Straight Dope gave a fairly accurate rundown of … Continue reading →