My foray into the vintage fantasy of Fritz Leiber continues with Swords In The Mist. And while I’ve enjoyed my time with Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, I found Swords In The Mist to be the weakest of the first three books in the series. Like the first two books, Swords In The Mist is…
Swords Against Death is not a novel but rather a collection of ten short stories that Lieber authored between 1939 and 1970 (most were written in the 1940s) about his famous characters, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.
Of all the titans of fantasy fiction I read growing up – Howard, Moorcock, Eddings, Tolkien – Fritz Leiber was not among them. I knew of his most famous characters, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, yet somehow I never got around to reading any of his books. But when I discovered earlier this year that…
Of all the books I read in 2019, Lost Gods by Brom was my favorite. It’s rather mind-blowing that it’s taken me a half-year to blog about it, but then again, basically everything that’s happened in 2020 has been a distraction from writing. But as they say, better late than never! Long before I discovered…
When the lockdown began in March and coronavirus coverage dominated the news, I felt oddly compelled to re-read one of several novels about a pandemic. I pulled two books off my shelf: The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton and The Stand by Stephen King. I chose The Stand, and it reminded me why I’ve long…
My new novella, The Fae Dealings, is available now on Amazon! The story, which is set during the reign of Charlemagne, is a prequel to my Dragon-Myth Cycle novels: Enoch’s Device and The Key to the Abyss. You can buy it here in the US. And here in the UK. I hope you enjoy it! Description…
I have a new novella coming out soon! It’s titled The Fae Dealings and is a prequel to my Dragon-Myth Cycle novels: Enoch’s Device and The Key to the Abyss. The Fae Dealings is set a little more than 200 years before Enoch’s Device, during the reign of Charlemagne. The book will launch next month,…
The Season 3 finale of Westworld, titled “Crisis Theory,” went places that few people expected. Neither of my predicted big twists came true. And the ending left enormous questions for the next season of Westworld. Here are my final thoughts on what turned out to be a wild, mindblowing ride. The Truth About Serac Last…
Season 3’s penultimate episode, titled “Passed Pawn,” gave us much more insight into Delores’ plan on Westworld and may have set up a huge twist for the season finale. Also, it looks like a few of my predictions have come true, at least as far as Maeve is concerned, and I was very close to…
After the latest episode, titled “Decoherence,” it looks like the battle lines have been drawn on Westworld. Maeve’s Back In The Matrix Do you remember how Neo and Morpheus had those training simulations to teach themselves how to fight like superheroes in the Matrix? Well, that’s precisely how Serac is using his simulation for Maeve…
The fifth episode of Season 3, titled “Genre,” revealed a lot about chaos theory on Westworld. The Outlier As I’ve mentioned before, Michael Crichton’s Westworld was the precursor to his bestselling novel Jurassic Park. Both were based on chaos theory — a notion that no matter how one tries to control a complex system, there…