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The Pulp Archivist launches a Substack

The Pulp Archivist has launched a Substack, The Obelisk. Since I turn to the Pulp Archivist for knowledge of the pulps and adventure fiction, I can heartily recommend you check this out. Correction: The Pulp Archivist pointed out to me that this Substack is run by the Bizarchives, he just

Black Amazon of Mars by Leigh Brackett

Happy New Year to all the readers of With Both Hands! I thought I’d start off this year with a classic work, Black Amazon of Mars. You can get a free Kindle version, but there is also an illustrated edition put out by Cirsova. [Amazon links] Even though this

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

Reaper: Cradle Book 10 Review

Reaper, book 10 in Will Wight’s Cradle series, is so good it reaches back in time and transforms events in the previous books, making you see things with new eyes. I think it would be quite fun to go back and read them all again in light of what

King of the World's Edge by H. Warner Munn Book Review

King of the World’s Edge by H. Warner Munn [Amazon link] is truly a pulp era story, first serialized in Weird Tales in September of 1939. A bold tale with massive scope, this is an alternative history of both the Americas and the last remnants of Romano-Britain that works

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

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