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A ripping SF-fantasy-adventure fraught with dinosaurs, barbarians, Transformers, heavy metal, monsters, spaceships, and all manner of madness.

Thursday, 30 December 2010

Looks like the Encyclopaedia Hyboriana has company!

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I got a surprising link from Google Alerts: as of yesterday, it appears there's going to be another reference guide to the Hyborian Age...
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Wednesday, 29 December 2010

Epic Syndrome and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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He's an uppity, precocious, intolerant English schoolboy! He's a fierce, quixotic, swashbuckling talking rat!  Together, they travel...
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Tuesday, 28 December 2010

The Encyclopaedia Hyboriana: A Reference Guide to Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age of Conan the Cimmerian

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Ever since I got really into Robert E. Howard after my second gateway via Conan, I've wondered just why there isn't a counterpart ...
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Monday, 27 December 2010

The Alleged Conan Formula

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More recently I decided to read Robert E. Howard, particularly his Solomon Kane and Conan stories. I am not a fan of Conan, I’m afraid. At...
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Saturday, 25 December 2010

Metal Barbarian Dinosaur Comics: The Expedition

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We should've left long ago.  Before Sir John died.  Thinking back to that day... History would record our journey as an attempt to fin...
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Friday, 24 December 2010

The Centenary of Fritz Leiber

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Today is Fritz Leiber's Centenary*.  Despite not actually being blown away by his work,  I feel like I should honour it with a post on m...
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Fear of a Black Asgard

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I haven't really talked about what I think about casting Idris Elba as a Marvel character based on a Norse Mythological deity who was ...
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Thursday, 23 December 2010

More Fodder for the Newcomer's Guide

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As I've said before, sometimes coming across something... not complimentary about Howard can inspire me to look at the author in a new ...
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Wednesday, 22 December 2010

The Newcomer's Guide to REH: Update

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The more I come across people who don't know their Conans from their Cohens and Howards from their Jordans, the more I'm convinced t...
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Tuesday, 21 December 2010

The Philip Palmer Challenge

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I like to imagine he's contemplating how his company is going to take over the Crown. In his recent post , Philip Palmer gives the very...
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Untimely ripped from the womb in a year where gargantuan metal gods who could transform into engines and mechanisms awakened, Al Harron has made it his quest to drink in all he could from the font of that most exciting of genres: adventure! Be it in the unknown pasts of forgotten ages, the grim unknowable future, on worlds beyond worlds and times beyond time: wherever the promise of discovery and daring undertakings may lie, Al will venture.
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