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Conan Meets the Academy: Multidisciplinary Essays on the Enduring Barbarian: A review 16 Feb 2013 | 11:41 pm
Conan Meets the Academy: Multidisciplinary Essays on the Enduring Barbarian (McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, 2013) offers a broad selection of essays on Conan, but not just the Conan of Rober...
Happy birthday to JRR Tolkien; jeers to Philip Pullman 4 Jan 2013 | 05:24 pm
Philip Pullman is another notable fantasy author who, alongside the likes of Michael Moorcock and Richard Morgan, has grossly missed the mark in his appraisal of The Lord of the Rings. Listening to th...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, a review 17 Dec 2012 | 07:42 pm
Warning: Spoilers follow. As I left an IMAX 3D showing of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey early Saturday evening, I struggled at first to determine why I experienced such mixed feelings about the f...
Just where is this guy? 10 Nov 2012 | 06:16 am
Readers the world round are surely wondering what happened to that guy who writes The Silver Key blog? I wish I had something really cool to report, for example that I've been called in as an emergenc...
The Zombie Survival Guide, a review 28 Sep 2012 | 05:32 pm
The next time a Class 2 zombie outbreak occurs in my neighborhood, I’ll be well-prepared to deal with the shambling corpses of hungry undead now that I’ve read Max Brooks’ The Zombie Survival Guide: C...
Last Call by Tim Powers, a review 12 Sep 2012 | 04:07 am
Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player twenty years ago and hasn’t returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards, in ten years. But troubling nightmares about a strange poker...
Plethora of Howard Days Panels on Youtube 31 Aug 2012 | 07:01 am
If you didn’t make it out to Cross Plains Texas for Robert E. Howard Days this past June (I didn’t, and have not yet made the trip, though it is on my bucket list), despair not: You can experience the...
Some thoughts on the purpose of fantasy fiction 28 Aug 2012 | 05:38 am
The author of another blog I discovered recently, Everything is Nice, recently chose to describe a quote by George R.R. Martin as representative of everything wrong with commercial fantasy fiction. I ...
A Brick-and-Mortar Bookstore Score 17 Aug 2012 | 02:47 am
Brick and mortar bookstores are as rare as hen’s teeth these days, it seems, and that’s a shame. I enjoy the instantaneous convenience and enormous selection of Amazon and Abebooks, but there’s someth...
Three Hobbit Films for the LOTR Fans = Trouble 3 Aug 2012 | 09:19 am
Fans of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings should be thrilled that The Hobbit, originally planned as two feature films, is now slated for three. More Tolkien on screen is a good thing, right? Sure...
