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Where There’s Smoke…
You may have noticed that the West Coast is on fire. I certainly have. My house has been blanketed by an apocalyptic miasma for days.
March 2, 2022
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Anthologies
Mighty Swordsmen…and Guest
The Mighty Swordsmen comes close to delivering precisely as advertised, and even its single lapse is excellent. I admit to a lack of familiarity with the
March 2, 2022
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Rereading “Janissaries”
Jerry Pournelle’s Janissaries was first published in 1979. I was ten. My copy is the 1982 edition. So I probably first read this in ‘82 or ‘83
March 2, 2022
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Anthologies
Swords Against Darkness: Here Be Monsters
Monsters come in many guises. Andrew Offut put together an anthology illustrating that very point. It is a fine collection. It doesn’t achieve the heights of some of the
March 2, 2022
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Reading Snapshot
I don’t know if my life is actually compartmentalized, but given how I read it sort of looks that way. I generally have four or
March 2, 2022
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Anthologies
Swords Against Darkness: Sometimes Less is More
In the last entry in this series of reviews of anthologies, I covered Swords Against Darkness I. This time I’m leaping ahead to Swords Against Darkness III,
March 2, 2022
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Appendix N
“The Moon Pool.” Dive In.
My faulty memory assured me that I had read Abraham Merritt’s The Moon Pool. So I picked up a copy figuring I would enjoy a re-read.
March 2, 2022
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Anthologies
Swords Against Darkness II: Thematically Ambiguous
Andrew Offutt’s introduction to Swords Against Darkness II deals with what term to apply to this genre of stories. He writes of sitting on four different panels
March 2, 2022
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Business of Writing
The Big Grift Post
I have made no secret in these posts that I write a bit of fiction now and then. At least I believe I haven’t kept
March 2, 2022
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