The Complete Compleat Enchanter. Part One, of the Making of a Hero.
I re-read books. Yes, I keep going back to the well, or, rather, wells. But if the water is so good — uisce beatha, if
If Ken Lizzi has a quest it is to help infuse a pulp sensibility into 21st Century fiction
I re-read books. Yes, I keep going back to the well, or, rather, wells. But if the water is so good — uisce beatha, if
H.P. Lovecraft receives top billing for The Watchers Out of Time. But the stories in this collection appear to have been actually written by Lovecraft’s
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I was watching (yet again) the John Wayne western El Dorado. It looks amazing on the 75-inch 4K screen. In fact so amazing that I
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