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Book Reviews and the Great Conversation: What Readers Like Versus What Authors Like

I am indebted to The Pulp Archivist for the title of this post, but I see it as an extension of my blog from 2020 What authors like versus what readers like. As someone who really likes adventure books, and really likes to blog about adventure books, there is a

The Widow's Son by Ryan Williamson Book Review

The Widow’s Son by Ryan Williamson [Amazon link] is a weird western, a tradition going back to at least to Robert E. Howard’s “The Horror from the Mound”. Westerns were popular for more than a century, oftentimes [loosely] inspired by the real-life adventures of men like Kit Carson,

Goblin Slayer Season One Anime review

It has been a very long time since I’ve done an anime review here at With Both Hands. Goblin Slayer [Amazon link] has been on my radar for a while, and I recently had a chance to watch it. The short review is I found it a perfectly enjoyable

Clerics in Fantastic Literature

Last evening after work, I was delving into the Grognardia blog, and I found this post on The Implicit Christianity of Early Gaming from 2008. James Maliszewski makes this startling [to me] claim right at the beginning: One of the many interesting ways that Dungeons & Dragons differs from its

The Voidburned Queen: Zack Lancestrom Book 2 by D. J. Bodden Book Review

The Voidburned Queen [Amazon link] is the second book in D. J. Bodden’s new Zack Lancestrom series, itself part of the larger FiveFold Universe. In the last book, Zack escaped his homeworld of Politeia in a stolen shuttle, narrowly avoiding a last minute interception by the Federal Fleet, who

Linkfest 2021-04-30: Peasant life

The image above links to a great Twitter thread on the real advantages and laments of medieval peasant life. One major challenge with talking about medieval life is that people might mean a period at any point from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Reuters: Why a medieval peasant got more

The Time Traders and Galactic Derelict by Andre Norton Book Review

Andre Norton was a prolific mid-century science fiction and fantasy author who is listed in Gary Gygax’s Appendix N, but despite her popularity I was entirely unfamiliar with her work. To rectify that, I picked up the 2000 Baen omnibus edition titled The Time Traders [Amazon link] that contains