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sSensor Sweep: Occultism, Jack London, The Moon of Skulls
Monday , 14, January 2019 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentWriting (Erindor Press): There’s this thing about new writers. They’re very tentative and they’ve yet to embrace any sense of authority over their writing and choice of career or hobby. You can tell by the way they interact with other writers, often being deferential in the extreme to those of us who have published something. They eat […]
Sensor Sweep: C. S. Lewis, Dennis Wheatley, Strange Detective, Convention De-platforming
Monday , 3, December 2018 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentFiction (Adventures Fantastic): Tolkien was the subject of yesterday’s post. He was a member of the famed group of writers known as the Inklings. Another Inkling was Tolkien’s close friend C. S. Lewis, who was born this day, November 29, in the year 1898. In light of yesterday’s post, I thought the above quote was […]
Sensor Sweep: D&D Community, Light novels, Zoe Quinn Comics, 1940
Monday , 11, June 2018 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsRPG (RPG Pundit): So my cat got in the way of my latest video; but the overall point is still clear (and slightly cuter, thanks to the cat): there’s no such thing as a real “D&D Community”. There’s a D&D Hobby, but the notion of a “Community” is a combination of a marketing tactic by […]
Sensor Sweep: ERB fonts, Robert Bloch Vampires, Mouse Wars, and The Punisher
Monday , 7, May 2018 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentPublishing (Recoverings): “It’s the nature of fandom. Every fan wants to hold his or her hobby close, be part of it, and contribute to it in some way. Writing, drawing, researching about action, the exotic worlds, the beautiful women and heroic men, the incredible beasts and unknown races are the life’s blood of many an Edgar […]
Sensor Sweep: Broken Swords, Pellucidar, Five-Fold Maws
Monday , 13, November 2017 Sensor Sweep 6 CommentsFiction (Mighty Thor Jrs) The Broken Sword–– “Originally published in 1954 this novel has all the elements necessary for great heroic fantasy. A unknowing or unwilling hero, a villain of unspeakable vileness, epic battles of world changing proportions, and of course a magic sword! With some Norse mythology mixed in what is not to love. When I […]