L. Sprague de Camp’s The Tritonian Ring is bronze-age sword-and-sorcery. In its pages he fits in lost continents, suggests origins for certain myths: medusa, gorgons, Amazons, etc., and provides a whirlwind tour of his pre-historic world of anxious, fallible gods, overly arrogant wizards, and bizarre societal habits. The driver of the narrative is the quest… Continue reading The Tritonian Ring: Barbecue in L. Sprague de Camp’s Backyard.
If Ken Lizzi has a quest it is to help infuse a pulp sensibility into 21st Century fiction