The Blog That Time Forgot

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

Friday, 11 February 2022

Khand and Rhûn and Harad Too

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More information regarding the upcoming The Lord of the Rings series, now subtitled The Rings of Power , has emerged. The response has been...
Saturday, 22 January 2022

Swording With Shadows: The Long Shadow of Robert E. Howard on his 116th

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So the 22nd of January once again comes around. Currently I'm researching for a post on Ossian and the Celtic Revival in Scotland (watch...
Saturday, 26 June 2021

All The Time in The (Jurassic) World (Dominion)

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The concept of Deep Time in terms of Earthly geology has its roots, in large part, to the work of Scottish geologist James Hutton . His stud...
Friday, 22 January 2021

Robert E. Howard in Scots: "The Ride o' Falume" (Poem)

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"The Ride o' Falume" Screivit by Rabert E. Howard  
Friday, 13 November 2020

170 Years of Robert Louis Stevenson

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Well, if you want to get technical, it isn't for a wee while yet . Mr Stevenson legally waived all rights to 13th of November as his bi...
Monday, 7 September 2020

Pumzika Kwa Amani, Charles R. Saunders, Griot for Another World

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  I was just digesting the shocking news of Chadwick Boseman's death when I heard about Charles R. Saunders , Sword and Soul pioneer and...
Friday, 7 August 2020

The Phantasmagoria Metallique: 100 Years of A. Merritt's "The Metal Monster"

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Sphere and block and pyramid ran together, seemed to seethe. I had again that sense of a quicksilver melting. Up from them thru...
Thursday, 11 June 2020

Robert E. Howard in Scots: Echoes from an Anvil

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Echaes frae a Stiddie Screivit by Rabert E. Howard  I leave tae pegral makars The tabor an the lute; I sing in d...
Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Jurassic Park and the End of Man's Dominion

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In which I ponder the new title for the upcoming third Jurassic World film, and how it relates to Robert Burns. Because that's th...
Thursday, 31 October 2019

BeastieScotInktoberFest: #31 - Wild Hairy Haggis

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My heart’s in the Highlands, twa strings on my bow To hunt the fierce haggis, man’s awfu’est foe. And weel may my bairn ha’ a tear ...
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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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