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Vintage Science Fiction Month: Lord of Thunder Lacks the Thematic Weight of The Beast Master

Posted on January 25, 2018 by

Lord of Thunder is the sequel to Andre Norton’s The Beast Master.  It is the much easier book of the two to find, but it is also the much weaker book.  Which isn’t to say that it is bad.  It … Continue reading →

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Vintage Science Fiction Month: The Beast Master is Half-Western, Half-Planetary Romance

Posted on January 11, 2018 by

I had a heckuva time finding this book.  Like any kid from the tail end of Generation X, I had seen the Beastmaster movie countless times on cable as a kid.  And I picked up at some point that the … Continue reading →

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Summer of Conan: Robert E. Howard Was the Texan Tolkien

Posted on July 27, 2017 by

The Conquering Sword of Conan is the final volume in Del Rey’s three-volume collection of every Robert E. Howard Conan story.  I wrote about the second volume, and how Robert E. Howard wrote like Hank Williams sang, last week.  Gregory … Continue reading →

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Summer of Conan: Robert E. Howard Wrote Like Hank Williams Sang

Posted on July 20, 2017 by

The Bloody Crown of Conan is the second of Del Rey’s three-volume collection of Robert E. Howard’s Conan yarns.  Including Howard’s only Conan novel, it has the fewest stories of any volume in the collection.  The Bloody Crown of Conan … Continue reading →

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Summer of Conan: Howard’s True Successors are in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, not Epic Fantasy

Posted on July 13, 2017 by

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet. The first volume of Del Rey’s … Continue reading →

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Throwback SF Thursday: Who Fears the Devil? by Manly Wade Wellman

Posted on April 20, 2017 by

I went to a panel at the WorldCon in San Antonio a few years back on Texas Pulp SF.  Apart from the 800-lb. 1800-lb. gorilla in the room, Texans were grossly underrepresented in the pulps.  The consensus was that they … Continue reading →

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Book Haul Post: Appendix N by Jeffro Johnson

Posted on January 23, 2017 by

Bursting with critical thought without an outlet, I started writing Amazon reviews six years ago.  The natural constraints of that format began to chafe, and I started this blog over a year and a half ago.  The catalyst was the … Continue reading →

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