Tag: fantasy
That’s Right, Morgoth, There’s No Such Word As This.
(I will cop to trying this word a couple of times before remembering that it has everything to do with The Silmarillion and nothing to do with poling boats around the canals of Venice.)
Teaser Tuesday: “The Guns Above”
So this week I was reading The Guns Above by Robyn Bennis, a low-technology steampunk adventure where they fly around in zeppelins, but shoot at each other with muzzle-load muskets, cannons, and flintlock rifles. Because why not?
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Teaser Tuesday: “Valley of the Lesser Evil”
So this week I was reading Valley of the Lesser Evil, by Carl Dane, which is not (gasp!) SF, fantasy, or (despite the title) horror, but is, in fact, an honest-to-God Western. It’s even set in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, as Westerns should be.
The Early Years: Pressed In Stone?
So it seems like I’ve got my entire Villains & Vigilantes Rogues’ Gallery to go through, in my giant stack of old papers and whatnot that my folks found in the closet in my old bedroom and shipped out to me, so you should be prepared for just about any kind of cheesy supervillain to show up here over the next several installations of “The Early Years”. In this case, we have somebody based on, apparently, Ajax from the Trojan War, right down to his spear-flinging abilities; except this Ajax is a villain, not a hero.*
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No Thank You Siri
So this week I was watching the final episode of Season 2 of Rings of Power on Prime, wherein King Durin of the dwarves was … Oh wait hang on a sec:
Not A Review Of “Agatha All Along”
So the other day, we sat down to watch the first episode of the new series Agatha All Along on Disney+:
Teaser Tuesday: “Smoke & Summons”
So this week I was reading Smoke & Summons, by Charlie N. Holmberg:
Don’t Leave Midgar Without It
Viscosity 