Category Archives: Fantasy

Wild Speculation – Mapping Out the First Season of the Wheel of Time

Posted on September 14, 2021 by H.P.

Last week I broke down the first trailer for Amazon’s adaptation of The Wheel of Time. This week I break down the season by episode. We know that the season will be eight episodes and the episode titles for six … Continue reading →

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Amazon Releases Wheel of Time Trailer – My Analysis and Wild Suppositions

Posted on September 7, 2021 by H.P.

It’s happening!  With all the pandemic-related delays, the arrival of Amazon’s adaptation of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series seems sudden.  We have a release date—and it is in a little over two months!  The first three episodes drop … Continue reading →

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Throwback SF Thursday: The Verdant Passage by Troy Denning

Posted on August 26, 2021 by H.P.

Troy Denning was one of the primary game designer for Dungeons & Dragons’ Dark Sun setting, so it is no surprise he got tapped to pen the first Dark Sun novel, The Verdant Passage.  Dark Sun is one of D&D’s … Continue reading →

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Review of Starlight Enclave by R.A. Salvatore

Posted on August 10, 2021 by H.P.

Tolkien was my real gateway into fantasy.  But like a lot of kids in the 80s and 90s, a huge part of my fantasy reading was devoted to D&D tie-in novels.  Outside of the Dragonlance Chronicles, R.A. Salvatore was the … Continue reading →

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Throwback SF Thursday: Scott Oden Presents The Lost Empire of Sol: A Shared World Anthology of Sword and Planet Tales, edited by Jason M. Waltz and Fletcher Vredenburgh

Posted on July 30, 2021 by H.P.

Can writers today still produce stuff with the verve and the flavor—the outright joy—of the pulp and pulpy tales of yesteryear?  The Lost Empire of Sol is evidence they can.  A collection of otherwise unconnected tales set in a far-future, … Continue reading →

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Rereading The Great Hunt, chapter 37

Posted on June 30, 2021 by H.P.

In which Rand and company travel to Toman Head by Portal Stone, a trip that spans several months and many, many lifetimes. I am for the first time devoting an entire reread post to just a single chapter, both because … Continue reading →

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Throwback SF Thursday: Conan the Rogue by John Maddox Roberts

Posted on June 10, 2021 by H.P.

John Maddox Roberts is probably my favorite of the Conan pastiche authors, but Conan the Rogue isn’t my favorite of his Conan books.  It is a fun book, and the concept of Conan as the greatest rogue of all in … Continue reading →

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Review of The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman

Posted on May 25, 2021 by H.P.

Buehlman had me at “stag-sized battle ravens.”  That alone was enough to make me jump at an ARC of The Blacktongue Thief when offered one by the publisher.  And we do indeed get a giant warbird (if not quite so … Continue reading →

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Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman

Posted on May 12, 2021 by H.P.

I haven’t done one of these in a while. And I technically didn’t wait–I finished my advance review copy of The Blacktongue Thief a few days ago. It is you who can’t wait, because I can already tell you that … Continue reading →

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Wheel of Time TV Show gets pre-release Greenlight for Season 2

Posted on April 30, 2021 by H.P.

They are being quiet about it, but Amazon has given the greenlight to season 2 of its Wheel of Time show, despite season 1 still shooting, let alone not having aired. Shooting of season 2 is to start immediately after … Continue reading →

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