WBH Weekly Digest 2023-04-15 Mapping it Out

Author Ryan Williamson announced a new series to be published by WarGate Books. Just from the image and knowing what WarGate publishes, it looks like a Central American flavored military portal fantasy.

I reviewed Williamson's The Widow's Son in July of 2021, if you want to get a taste of his style.

RE:View- Blade Runner - Arkhaven Site

Blade Runner is a film I hold in considerable affection and yet it is not a great movie. Some argue not even a good movie, but they’re wrong and they’re bad, and here’s why. It is an extraordinarily influential film. Everyone knows that it has problems. It’s just that it’s hard for anyone to agree…

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This review of Blade Runner by The Dark Herald does an excellent job getting why the film is so influential, while acknowledging its flaws.

Fan art can be sweet

Spy x FamilyEndo Tatsuya’s Spy x Family is one of the most wholesome pieces of popular entertainment to come along in quite some time. I can wholeheartedly recommend both the manga and the anime.With Both HandsBenjamin Espen

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Spy x Family is one of my current favorites, so I delighted by this fan art imagining teenage Anya and Desmond in a sweet way entirely in line with manga. Volume 9 is recently out, you are reading it right?

I love the aesthetic of drawthentic's Kingdoms of America art.

The Alchemy of Treason: The Lost Book 5

In the land of ice and monsters, there is nothing mundane about treachery. Eternal consequences flow from mundane actions.

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The fifth volume of Peter Nealen's The Lost series shows us a world were treachery and necromancy unleash cthonic horrors upon the innocent. I'm here to argue that world is more like ours than you might be comfortable admitting.

The Long View

On May 30, 2012, my friend John J. Reilly passed from this vale of tears after a sudden illness. John and I never met in person, but we exchanged emails and forum posts for nearly ten years, so I feel that I knew him in a way. John was one

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The Long View topic archives are live, with all of John's essays up through 2008 posted, along with some from 2009. Let me know if you find a broken link or missing essay!

J. Manfred Weichsel

J. Manfred Weichsel writes extravaganzas that fuse adventure, horror, science fiction, and fantasy into some of the most original subversive literature being published today. Weichsel’s shorter works appear regularly in Cirsova Magazine and anthologies from Cirsova Publishing. His longer self-pu…

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Jon Weichsel's hilariously offensive books are on sale until the 15th for $0.99 USD on Smashwords. I've reviewed ten books by Weichsel, which usually make me queasy and uncomfortable, but his satire hits hard because of his willingness to go where no one dares.

I should have a review of Savage Headhunters up soon.

I was a guest on the Blasters and Blades podcast again, this time I talked about maps in fantasy stories with Chloe Garner, Kate Korsak, Michael Morton and Matthew Bowman.