Tag: Anthony Perconti
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Review: David C. Smith’s -Sometime Lofty Towers-
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 161, June 2025 I have been aware of David C. Smith and his relation to the sword and sorcery community for some time now. Aware, but truth be told, not familiar with his work. Sure, I remember those Red Sonja paperbacks, rocking those Borris Vallejo covers. I associated Smith with…
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Review: Hurled, Headlong Flaming or the Bishop’s Tale
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 159, April 2025 Matt Holder’s Hurled, Headlong Flaming is the inaugural offering from Spiral Tower Press’ Keen Blades imprint. Keen Blades’ mission statement is “to expand the boundaries of what sword and sorcery can be.” Bold statement, to be sure. Once I read the novella’s synopsis, coupled with that (utterly…
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Double-Edged Sword and Sorcery: Review
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 158, March 2025 One of the things I find compelling about the modern renaissance in sword and sorcery fiction, is way that some authors have shifted their focus away from traditional Eurocentric settings (or fictional analogs thereof). Hey, it’s a wide swath of human history, why not set adventures in…
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New Edge Sword & Sorcery #1 Review
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 142, November 2023 New Edge Sword and Sorcery #1 gives readers a wide variety of stories set within the sword and sorcery genre. I find it heartening that the contributors to New Edge take an expansive approach in fleshing out their individual protagonists. They are not mere cookie cutter, musclebound “thud & blunder” heroes…
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The Nine Worlds in All Their Splendor: A Review of Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 94, November 2019 For me, reading a book by Neil Gaiman is like having an old friend, whom you haven’t seen in a long while, over for dinner and drinks. Time has elapsed since you last socialized, but as old companions, you pick up exactly where you left off, and…
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Can’t Find My Way Home—A Review of ‘Weirdworld Volume 1: Where Lost Things Go’
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 92, September 2019 2019As far as bad days go, high school senior Becca Rodriguez is having a pretty crap one. While en route to Mexico to inter her mother’s ashes, her flight takes a permanent detour. The passengers are pulled through a planar vortex into the realm known as Weirdworld.…