Monthly Archives: January 2022

Vintage Science Fiction Month: Conan the Valorous by John Maddox Roberts

Posted on January 20, 2022 by H.P.

I’ve said before that John Maddox Roberts is neck-and-neck with Robert Jordan for best writer of Conan pastiches, but that he gets Conan better than any other writer of pastiches I have read.  Conan the Valorous helps firm up my … Continue reading →

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Vintage SF Month: A Fighting Man of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Posted on January 13, 2022 by H.P.

Goodreads used to give you nifty little pie charts divvying up your books read in a year by genre or however you categorized your books in shelving them.  Google (as Google does) discontinued the tool they used to generate the … Continue reading →

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Fourth Quarter 2021 and 2021 Quarter-and-Year-in-Review

Posted on January 4, 2022 by H.P.

Our long national nightmare is over.  2021 has passed and 2022 begins.  Only, on one hand, the word “over” doesn’t really fit when we are facing another wave of COVID, and, on the other hand, I actually had a really … Continue reading →

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