If Ken Lizzi has a quest it is to help infuse a pulp sensibility into 21st Century fiction
December 12, 2021 The Immortal of World’s End: A Psuedo-Comic Travelogue Lin Carter put his carnival barker’s hat on. “Step right this way folks, see
December 19, 2021 Barbarian-Light Lin Carter’s Gondwane Epic continues in The Barbarian of World’s End, the fourth volume. In a pleasant departure from the previous book, this
November 16, 2014 The Elfin Ship Feeling, as I did, a trifle lonesome with my wife and daughter out of town for the week, “The Elfin
October 26, 2014 Rainy-day Reading The grey days are here again. The storms roll inland from the Pacific in succession, bringing the seemingly continuous rain.
October 19, 2014 Peregrine: Primus, Philosophy and Picaresque I’ve written before about Avram Davidson. Might he not have graced the list of an alternate Appendix
September 28, 2014 Immortal Creations I think the number of pages of Sherlock Holmes pastiches I’ve read equals or surpasses the volume of “The Complete
Swords and Sorcery fiction provides us with exciting action in memorable settings. It also drops terrific characters into those settings and lets them run free.
In previous posts I’ve praised David Drake’s Vettius and Dama stories. It was clear to me he had a gift for melding historical accuracy with
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