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

Saturday, 23 March 2019

The Immortal Memory of Steve Tompkins

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Here at TC Central a schism wider than the Hyrkanian steppes has long separated me from site-founder Leo Grin and Silver-Key – wielder Bria...
Tuesday, 22 January 2019

The People of the Heather: Robert E. Howard and Scotland

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Books dealing on Scottish history were easier for me to obtain than those dealing with Irish history, so in my childhood I knew infinite...
Monday, 31 December 2018

Putting the Terror Back Into Terrible Lizards

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The depiction of dinosaurs as monsters has long been a bit of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, dinosaurs-as-monsters has kept them...
Friday, 14 December 2018

Mortal Engines & the Tyranny of Realism

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Urgh. How very unrealistic . I love realism in my speculative fiction, but I am by no means beholden to it. I can enjoy realistic scien...
Thursday, 11 October 2018

HistoScotInktoberFest, Day 11: Margaret, Queen of Scots, ca 1070 AD

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Let me speak first of all about her prayerfulness. In church no one was so silent and composed as she, no one so wrapt in prayer. Whilst ...
Wednesday, 10 October 2018

HistoScotInktoberFest, Day 10: Lady Fenella of Angus Assassinates Kenneth II, ca 995 AD

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The principal of these were Constantine the Bald, son of King Culen, and Gryme, son of Kenneth, son of King Duff; and, plotting unceasin...
Tuesday, 9 October 2018

HistoScotInktoberFest, Day 9: Máel Brigte slays Sigurd the Mighty... Posthumously, 892 AD

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Earl Sigurd made himself a mighty chief;  he joined his fellowship with Thorstein the red, son of Olaf the white and Aud the deep-minded,...
Monday, 8 October 2018

HistoScotInktoberFest, Day 8: Vikings at the Rock of the Clyde, 870 AD

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While the Roman Invasion left an indelible mark on these isles, it was far from the last great assault from overseas: four centuries afte...
Sunday, 7 October 2018

HistoScotInktoberFest, Day 7: Óengus mac Fergusa, Mightiest King of the Picts, and the Saltire in the Sky, ca 761 AD

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Good the day when Óengus took Alba, hilly Alba with its strong chiefs; he brought battle to palisaded towns, with feet, with hands,...
Saturday, 6 October 2018

HistoScotInktoberFest, Day 6: The Illuminations of Iona, ca. 670 AD

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WHAT we are about to relate concerning the plague, which in our own time twice visited the greater part of the world, deserves, I think...
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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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