The Chronicles of Conan Volume 9 Riders of the River-Dragons
The Chronicles of Conan Volume 9 Riders of the River-Dragons And Other Stories No complaints about the title of this volume: exciting, evocative, beautifully pulpish and just rolls off the tongue. At the end of our last outing, we saw our favourite wandering Cimmerian settle down for a life of piracy aboard the Tigress as it sailed off the shores of the Black Coast, with Bêlit at his side — the beautiful and...
The Chronicles of Conan – Volume 6 – The Curse of the Golden Skull
The Chronicles of Conan Volume 6 The Curse of the Golden Skull And Other Stories The sixth volume of Dark Horse Books’ masterful collections of the ’seventies Marvel Conan comics opens with one of artist John Buscema’s finest and most attention-grabbing title pages. The Cimmerian and his mismatched companion, the Khitain thief Bourtai are in the scorching deserts to the West of that country. Heat is baking off the sands and Conan...
Mysteries of Time and Spirit The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei
Mysteries of Time and Spirit The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei Edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz Lovecraft Letters Volume 1 Night Shade Books Anyone who only knows Howard Phillips Lovecraft through his short stories and two novellas must be almost overwhelmed when they try to comprehend the sheer scale of his correspondence. Shortly after the appearance of the volume at hand, S. T. Joshi wrote in his...
The Reality Dysfunction : Book One of the Night’s Dawn trilogy
The Reality Dysfunction Book One of the Night’s Dawn trilogy It’s a shame that my last book of 2013 has been such a disappointment; a qualified one, mind you, but a disappointment none the less. I’ve picked up and looked at Peter F. Hamilton’s 1996 novel, The Reality Dysfunction several times over the last year. I’m not familiar with Hamilton’s writing but it has that great title and that really great cover. It’s also...
Smiling Through the End of Days: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Smiling Through the End of Days: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World There are times when I can be a bit of a gloomy sod, so I’m not too sure how often you’ll come across words like ‘charming’, ‘sweet’ and ‘optimistic’ in this column. ‘Optimistic’ in particular seems odd when applied to an end of the world scenario. Yet that is what Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is. Approaching asteroid or not,...
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