by ObiwanSpock | May 4, 2016 | book review, fantasy, fantasy fiction, publishing, The Nine Suns, The Tale of Azaran, Zackery Arbela
The current superhero boom has been around long enough to inspire satires and piss takes – subverting the classic superhero tale is now as much of a tradition as…well, the traditional story. If you think about it, the idea of someone finding out he has...
by ObiwanSpock | May 1, 2016 | fantasy fiction, publishing, pulp fiction, scifi, Sunday Linkage, sword and sorcery, Zackery Arbela
The Dark Side of Fantasy http://verilymag.com/2014/06/the-dark-side-of-fantasy-sex-violence-and-women-in-game-of-thrones The Hugo Awards announce the 2016 nominees. 2016 Hugo Awards Cue the hand wringing…...
by ObiwanSpock | Apr 6, 2016 | awesome, ebooks, fantasy art, fantasy fiction, photo, publishing, pulp fiction, self-publishing, Zackery Arbela
Consider if you will the character of Conan the Barbarian. What image comes to mind when you think of him, RE Howard’s greatest creation? Chances are it is a fairly big, burly fellow with a pitiless face and dark lanky hair, wearing perhaps a few scraps of...
by ObiwanSpock | Apr 3, 2016 | awesome, book review, Dungeons & Dragons, ebooks, publishing, pulp fiction, self-publishing, Zackery Arbela
“Almost time to die, you maggots!” The chief jailer whacked his baton against the iron bars of the cells, laughing as several of the inmates scrambled back. “That’s right, practice your shakin’! The mob expects a good show, don’t...
by ObiwanSpock | Mar 26, 2016 | awesome, Dungeons & Dragons, fan fic, fantasy, publishing, pulp fiction, Sunday Linkage, The Tale of Azaran, tunes, Zackery Arbela
A man finds a portal to a magical dimension behind a Burger King and finds himself in a land populated by monsters adventurers and wizards…which he interviews via a weak transdimensional wifi. If that’s not the perfect premise for a podcast, then life has...
by ObiwanSpock | Mar 1, 2016 | fantasy, publishing
Perhaps more than any other genre, Fantasy has its roots in nostalgia, in a yearning for a past that never was, a lost world that cannot possibly exist. It’s roots lay in the old myths of the past, in the tales of King Arthur and Siegfried, the stories of the...
