Showing posts with label Fantasy fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fantasy fiction. Show all posts
Friday, July 24, 2020

Forgotten Books: SWORDS AND DEVILTRY by Fritz Leiber (1970)

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I first came across the adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser sometime in the early '70s, when in the throes of Howardmania. Ther...
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Friday, June 19, 2020

Forgotten Stoires: OUTSIDE OF TIME by Carroll John Daly (1950)

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This is CJD's one and only appearance in Weird Tales, which seems like a very weird place for him to be.    It's from Jan. 1950, ...
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Sunday, March 10, 2019

Otto Penzler Auction Results: FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION

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$22,500 $5,750 $4,750 Third edition Frankenstein $812.50 $1,000 $42,500 for concept art, designs and storyboa...
Friday, February 8, 2019

Forgotten Books: CONAN OF VENARIUM by Harry Turtledove (2003)

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Between 1982 and 1997 Tor published more than forty original Conan novels by a gang of various authors. Then, for no good reason I could s...
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Friday, January 11, 2019

Best-Forgotten Books: THE EYE OF THE WORLD by Robert Jordan (1990)

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The good news first: Half of The Eye of the World is a pretty good book. Now the bad news: The other half is mindless blather, and the o...
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Friday, October 19, 2018

Forgotten Books: CONAN THE MAGNIFICENT by Robert Jordan (1984)

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Every time I finish one of Robert Jordan's Conan books, I'm eager to start another. In fact, it's hard not to, because if I ...
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Friday, August 17, 2018

Forgotten Books: CONAN THE DEFENDER by Robert Jordan (1982)

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After picking up The Further Chronicles of Conan at Goodwill recently, containing Robert Jordan's fourth, fifth and final Conan nov...
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Friday, August 18, 2017

Forgotten Books: THE GUNSLINGER by Stephen King (1981)

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Well, that was an experience. I read The Stand a long time ago, and probably another King or two, but I remember his writing being sor...
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Monday, April 17, 2017

AVON FANTASY READER 1, 2 & 3 (1947)

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