Tag Archives: heroic fantasy

Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith’s The Chronicles of Conan, Vol. 1: The Tower of the Elephant and Other Stories; The Barry Windsor-Smith Archive: Conan, Volume 1

Posted on 15th October 2016 by Robert

Once upon a time there was a young English illustrator who wanted to draw comics. He wanted to draw comics badly enough that he came to America with little more than the clothes on his back and a sheaf of … Continue reading →

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Roy Thomas, et al., The Chronicles of Kull, Volume 1: A King Comes Riding and Other Stories

Posted on 15th October 2016 by Robert

Before there was Conan, there was Kull! At least, so we were reminded on any number of covers of comics featuring stories about Robert E. Howard’s Kull, the spiritual forerunner of Conan. Kull was arguably the most important of Howard’s … Continue reading →

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Glen Cook’s An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire

Posted on 19th September 2016 by Robert

“Before the Instrumentalities of the Night, before the Black Company, there was the Dread Empire. . . .” So declares the jacket flap on this collection of Glen Cook’s short fiction, all set in the universe of Shinshan, Kavelin, Itaskia, … Continue reading →

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Glen Cook’s Second Dread Empire Trilogy

Posted on 19th September 2016 by Robert

Reap the East Wind An Ill Fate Marshalling A Path to Coldness of Heart Somehow, and I’m not sure how it happened, I managed not to read Glen Cook’s second Dread Empire Trilogy back in the day. I did read … Continue reading →

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Simon R. Green’s Once in A Blue Moon

Posted on 26th January 2015 by Cat Eldridge

At what appeared to be the end of the Forest Kingdom series in Beyond the Blue Moon, Prince Rupert and Princess Julia, also known as Hawk and Fisher, the only honest City Guards in the corrupt city of Haven, have … Continue reading →

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Glen Cook’s A Fortess in Shadow

Posted on 26th December 2012 by Robert

The Fire in His Hands With Mercy Toward None A Fortress in Shadow is an omnibus edition collecting Glen Cook’s two “prequel” novels to The Dread Empire trilogies. (Yes, there are two of them, which we have discussed here and … Continue reading →

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Glen Cook’s A Path to Coldness of Heart

Posted on 7th December 2011 by Robert

‘Copyright Glen Cook 2011 and used with the permission of Night Shade Books. Online use granted to Green Man Review, a publication of Kinrowan Limited, and any other use, online or in print, is prohibited without the express written permission … Continue reading →

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