Lyorn is the seventeenth installment in Steven Brust’s Vlad Taltos series. For some reason I’d believed this would the final book, as there are seventeen houses in the Cycle of his fictional universe, and one book title now corresponds to each individual house. I was, apparently, incorrect, as this novel does not tie up loose… Continue reading Sword-and-Sorcery and Song and Dance: Steven Brust’s “Lyorn.”
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En Garde! “Cesar the Bravo” is En Route.
It has been about fifteen years in the making. As I recall, it was in 2010 that I began writing the first Cesar the Bravo story, longhand, in a notebook on a flight to Hawaii, finishing it up pool side. A rough life, I know. That story ended up in an anthology in 2011. The… Continue reading En Garde! “Cesar the Bravo” is En Route.
The Web Log Has Migrated
After three years in Houston, MBW, the HA, and I have packed our bags. Forgive this short post. I’ve been up since 4AM. I drove to the new Web Log Headquarters in San Antonio, and have been unloading, unpacking, driving about town for various essential purchases, and generally sweating my fundament off all day. I… Continue reading The Web Log Has Migrated
Poisoned Lands: Stormlands Book Three.
Several years pass between the end of the second book of John Maddox Roberts’ Stormlands, The Black Shields, and the third book, The Poisoned Lands. Enough years for the sons of the series’ hero, Hael, to have reached a warrior’s age. Hael, in fact, makes no appearance in this volume, apparently busy in the East… Continue reading Poisoned Lands: Stormlands Book Three.
Andrew Offutt’s “My Lord Barbarian.”
My Lord Barbarian is a slim planetary romance by Andrew Offutt. It begins with an intriguing premise and a reasonable pretext to include spaceships and sci-fi technology in a story of sword-swinging barbarians. (Again I’m reminded why Gary Gygax enshrined Offutt in Appendix N.) The pulp action picks up rather quickly after the introductory chapter… Continue reading Andrew Offutt’s “My Lord Barbarian.”