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Swords & Sorcery: a blog: Imperial Art - Portrait of the Battle of Inkerman, Ukraine, 5 November 1854 by Thomas Rose Miles
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Saturday, July 18, 2015. Imperial Art - Portrait of the Battle of Inkerman, Ukraine, 5 November 1854 by Thomas Rose Miles. While I'm working on my piece about Verdun, I'm working my way through Tervor Royle's Anglo-centric Crimea: The Great Crimean War. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What I'm Also Reading. And this one too. Stephen S. Power – The Wave Rises. Raising a story from the dead… and then putting it back in its grave. Dancers, Penguins, Defiance: Movies and TV viewed this week (#SFWApro).
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Swords & Sorcery: a blog: May 2015
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015. I'm not sure what the first story I read by Clifford Simak was, but the first I remember is "Desertion." It's part of the book he's probably most famous for, City. The novel is a mournful farewell to humanity and Earth and stars robot butlers and talking dogs. Desertion" is about a scientist and his dog on Jupiter investigating missing explorers. They were transmogrified into lopers, a lifeform native to the planet's surface. None so far have returned to the station. In the UK Guar...
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Swords & Sorcery: a blog: October 2014
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Friday, October 31, 2014. After watching a mostly not-too-spooky movies for most of the month, the luminous Mrs. V. and I will send the holiday out in style with a few creepier films. The highlight will be The Haunting. Robert Wise's effective adaptation of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. If there's time, we'll also watch Donnie Darko. Writing this, I'm thinking about what other spooky movies I need to get my hands on. First, The Innocents. So have a fun Halloween and don't eat too much crap.
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Swords & Sorcery: a blog: Imperial Artwork - Assault of Gimry - by Franz Alekseyevich Roubaud
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Imperial Artwork - Assault of Gimry - by Franz Alekseyevich Roubaud. This detailed painting is of the Russian attack on the stronghold of Ghazi Muhammad, the most important religious leader of the resistance of the peoples of the Eastern Caucasus to Russian conquest. It was painted by Franz Alekseyevich Roubaud. Make sure you click on it to get the full effect. Will I ever read all this, who can tell? Still, it's a mesmerizing period and region I know little of. As much as w...
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Avoiding Fantasy Fatigue
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Bull; 17 Comments. If you’re reading this article you might be thinking two things:. 1 Why would a fantasy website feature an article about being burned out with fantasy? 2 I’m burned out on fantasy, so I want to see what this guy rants about. Is it bad to abandon your main genre for a spell and try something else? Let’s explore this idea together, shall we? A mixture of dark comedy, weird fiction, and fantasy. This allowed me to continue to write sword and sorcery, but with a more comedic lens. ...Maybe...
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Why SAD PUPPIES 3 is going to destroy Science Fiction! | Brad R. Torgersen
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Brad R. Torgersen. Blue Collar Speculative Fiction. Skip to primary content. Articles, Interviews, Guest Blogs. BRT Success – A Definition. Why SAD PUPPIES 3 is going to destroy Science Fiction! January 16, 2015. Brad R. Torgersen. It’s remarkable how fast word travels on the intarwebz these days. No sooner had I posted the (rather tame) announcement that SAD PUPPIES was coming back for a third go-around. So some personal opinions. Take ’em or leave ’em. And Judy-Lynn del Rey had not happened yet. Th...
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Swords & Sorcery: a blog: Simakpalooza!
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015. I'm not sure what the first story I read by Clifford Simak was, but the first I remember is "Desertion." It's part of the book he's probably most famous for, City. The novel is a mournful farewell to humanity and Earth and stars robot butlers and talking dogs. Desertion" is about a scientist and his dog on Jupiter investigating missing explorers. They were transmogrified into lopers, a lifeform native to the planet's surface. None so far have returned to the station. In the UK Guar...
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Swords & Sorcery: a blog: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Chaosium Mythos Fiction: Mysteries of the Worm (2nd ed.) by Robert Bloch. After weeks of delay brought about by travel, cataracts, other obligations, and, above all, laziness, I finally finished Mysteries of the Worm. By Robert Bloch. It's name is the English version of Bloch's contribution to the Mythos' library of evil volumes: De Vermis Mysteriis. Robert Bloch (1917-1994) is still, sadly, really only known to the wider public (if at all) as the author of Psycho. Even that laur...
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Swords & Sorcery: a blog: The Spanish Navy on Staten Island
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Thursday, August 13, 2015. The Spanish Navy on Staten Island. One nifty new bit of info I've learned reading Ivan Musicant's history of the Spanish-American War, Empire by Default, concerns my home town of Staten Island. When the USS Maine was sent to Cuba to both serve as a guardian for Americans in Havana during a period of increasing unrest in the streets to threaten the Spanish over their actions against the Cubans. The Vizcaya at sea, sometime between 1893 and 1898. Labels: Don Antonio Eulate. Augus...
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Swords & Sorcery: a blog: April 2015
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Friday, April 3, 2015. Wonderful Nonsense and Unearthed America. There are probably all sorts of fascinating reasons that there was a market for UFOs and cryptozoology when I was growing up back in the seventies. I don't really care now and I definitely didn't care when I was eleven. What mattered was that there were lots of books of glorious nonsense for me to read. The Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film. In 1967 and Eric von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods? Let Roddy McDowall get lost in the Triangle. I love...
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