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

Friday, 14 June 2019

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

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I am the symbol of Creation and Destruction I am the beginning and the end. With my tail in my mouth I am the Circle of Eternity. Wis...
Monday, 20 May 2019

Narrative Rebellion: The Last Song, Or, How A Song of Ice & Fire & A Game of Thrones Should End (But Probably Won't)

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What A Song of Ice and Fire was always about for me. So, that's the end of A Game of Thrones . I've written about it a few t...
Thursday, 4 April 2019

Amis Absents

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Just over five years after Steve Tompkins' death , Miguel Martins died . Deuce Richardson has a fine tribute marking the fifth year ...
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,...
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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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