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sSensor Sweep: Skullsplitter Dice, Fantasy divisions, Future Firearms, Samson Pollen
Monday , 21, January 2019 Sensor Sweep 4 CommentsFiction (DMR Books): I have a real attachment to the supernatural tales that appeared in what is often called the golden age of the English ghost story. Ranging from around 1880 to somewhere in the 1920s its boundaries are as vague as its achievements are remarkable. For a time, in that difficult to imagine world […]
Sensor Sweep: Pre-Tolkien Challenge, Pathfinder, A. Merritt,
Monday , 27, August 2018 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsFiction (Jeffro’s Space Gaming Blog): Tolkien was ahead of his time. And that’s precisely what I object to about him. And you know it’s real. People experience a culture shock when they go look up his forgotten contemporaries that they don’t with his work. You can see it, too, in where people struggle with him. […]
Sensor Sweep: Lin Carter, Tolkien, and Modiphius Conan
Monday , 27, November 2017 Sensor Sweep 8 CommentsFiction (Tolkien and Fantasy blog): “The Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series, which published some 70-odd books from 1969-1974, is justly renowned, and Lin Carter (1930-1988) is often acclaimed as the editor of the series, but he was not the editor. Look at the footer of every single one of his introductions to books in the series: […]