Travis Miller's Blog About Sword & Sorcery Fiction and Classic Fantasy Adventure Gaming
Tom Shippey's Laughing Shall I Die is an examination of the viking attitudes about death and how they lived knowing that they would almost certainly come to a violent end. It's a book worth reading if you are interested in the vikings or how the stories about vikings influenced the sword-and-sorcery genre. Tom Shippey has …
Continue reading Book Recommendation: Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings
Recently, two writers that I admire, Jason Carney and Brian Murphy, have posted essays on their respective blogs that there is more sword-and-sorcery fiction being published than they can keep up with. The crux of the discussion is that we may have a glut. My opinion is that there is no glut. Not yet. There …
Continue reading I’m Looking Forward To A Glut of Sword-And-Sorcery
Sword-and-Sorcery is the common link between old school Dungeons & Dragons and heavy metal music.
If you enjoy transgressive, violent, funny, sword-and-sorcery comic books you should check out Barbaric by Michael Moreci.
I want to be clear about what I review, how I review, and why. I don't want to be known primarily as a reviewer of RPGs, books, and music. Even though reviews get more traffic than most other types of posts, I don't do many of them. If views and followers were my primary metric, …
Continue reading Grumpy Wizard’s Reviews and Recommendations
There is a revival of the sword-and-sorcery genre of fantasy underway. This week, I review a book that increased my understanding of the genre.
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