by ObiwanSpock | Apr 3, 2016 | Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy, fantasy fiction, heavy metal, pulp fiction, Sunday Linkage, sword and sorcery
Our Long National Nightmare is over… http://m.ign.com/articles/2016/04/01/dungeons-dragons-movie-taps-goosebumps-director-rob-letterman The music is good…the covers are questionable…...
by ObiwanSpock | Mar 30, 2016 | book review, ebooks, fantasy, sword and sorcery
A long time ago, I was going through a back room stacks of an old used book shop, whereupon I came across a well-worn copy of THE ANVIL OF ICE, by Michael Scott Rohan. Like most good fantasy novels, this one initially drew my attention with the cover, but once said...
by ObiwanSpock | Mar 23, 2016 | book review, fantasy, goodreads, sword and sorcery
Originally posted at Goodreads Gather round children, and cast your minds back to the ye old days of the late 80’s/early 90’s, when fantasy was still very much an underground thing, most stories were tedious Tolkien retreads or Dungeons and Dragons...
by ObiwanSpock | Mar 15, 2016 | awesome, fantasy, sword and sorcery
In the last post, we had a look at the best of the worst – movies in the fantasy genre that are examples of so-bad-it’s-good…or just plain bad. But that is only part of the story. Even though the genre has a whole has a rather spotty record when it comes...
by ObiwanSpock | Mar 12, 2016 | awesome, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy, fantasy art, scifi, sword and sorcery, Uncategorized
With the imminent arrival of the next season of Game of Thrones, the time has come to take a look back at the cinematic past of the genre. The original idea was to put down a list of the best in fantasy-related cinema out there, but that was scrapped when I realized...
by ObiwanSpock | Mar 7, 2016 | ebooks, fantasy, sword and sorcery, Zackery Arbela
Modern fantasy fiction is a child of two fathers, and Robert E. Howard. If Tolkien helped build what we now call High Fantasy, Howard is the originator of its sister sub-genre, sword and sorcery. Both men are rightly considered the fathers of fantasy, yet it is hard...