Tag: Reveiw
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A Dance with Dragon’s Volume 2: After the Feast, by George R. R. Martin
by John C. Adams in Issue 104, September 2020 This is the most recent installment in the long-running and hugely popular ‘A Game of Thrones’ series, also known as ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’. For anyone who isn’t familiar with the books and their accompanying TV adaptation, the idea of jumping in partway through a…
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The Only Story That Matters: My Thoughts on Skald, Cycle One
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 80, September 2018 2018The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term skald as “(in ancient Scandinavia) a composer and reciter of poems honoring heroes and their deeds”. (1) The ancient Greek counterparts of the Scandinavian skalds, poets such as Homer and Apollonius of Rhodes, composed timeless works of art chronicling the…
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By Fist and Sword: A Review of ‘Weird Tales of Horror’, by David J. West
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 75, April 2018 March 2018 The David J. West short story and poetry collection, Weird Tales of Horror is a sampling of various types of genre fiction, ranging from the historical all the way to science fiction, with the common through line of the supernatural represented in each. In these pages you…