Three Hearts and Three Lions on Sale
Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts and Three Lions is on sale on Amazon for $1.99 USD.
This is a seminal work of American fantasy, and I can’t recommend it enough.
Mythic fiction
Follow-up on a capsule history of English scifi and fantasy
I was looking around my own blog to see if I had ever written anything on Verne while I was prepping my review of Eighty Days Around the World, and I stumbled on this:
A Capsule History of English SciFi and Fantasy
I wrote that post in November of 2010,
Mythical and Submerged Lands of the World
Robert E. Howard and other pulp era writers were pretty good on anthropology, but a little less good on plate tectonics and catastrophism.
Which isn’t to say there weren’t some astonishing things in the geologic record,
Brandon Sanderson's Kickstarter
The big news in the publishing world today is Brandon Sanderson’s Kickstarter for four new novels. The totals just keep going up, but as you can see from my screenshot he is approaching 65k backers and $16.6M. That comes out to an average of $250 per backer, an
The Power of Setting
Nathan, the Pulp Archivist, has an awesome blog up at Castalia House Why Settings Matter. He uses the tiki bar as an example of a bit of fiction that seemed so real that it perpetuated itself into reality. You should go read it, as Nathan along with JD Cowan is
Pulp stories and character death
On Twitter, Astonishing Hero asked an excellent question about how in a lot of pulpy adventure stories the hero always beats the bad guy and gets the girl, and then interestingly contrasted it with preferred RPG play style. There was lots of great discussion over on Twitter, but the part
Forgotten Ruin and Eucatastrophe
I like writing book reviews, although in one way I do find the form a bit limiting. For the most part, book reviews are written to entice people to read a book they have not read, and hence it is considered bad form to give away everything in the book