As NASA’s Curiosity rover trundles about the surface of Mars today, another page turns on the glories of pulp science fiction.   Leigh Br...

Edgar Rice Burroughs genre milestone A Princess of Mars ended with the hero appropriately back on Earth where he’d begun his tale.  ...

A Princess of Mars (1912) by Edgar Rice Burroughs is one of the most over-the-top novels ever written.   Inspired by pulp and in tur...

Printed and re-printed more than 150 million times, existing in thirty-eight translations of foreign languages, spawning a variety of...

For readers perusing the volume titles of Paul Kearney’s Monarchies of God series pondering whether to slap down the cash, Ships fro...

With Hawkwood, Bardolin, and Murad arriving back on Normandian shores in the epilogue of The Iron Wars , Kearney hinted the next book...

The Iron Wars is unique among the five volumes of Paul Kearney’s Monarchies of God series.   Like the handle of a dumbbell, it conn...

Thanks to Arnie, Conan the Barbarian is one of the most well-known characters of heroic fantasy in today's world.   A creation of...

The Heretic Kings , volume two of Paul Kearney’s five part Monarchies of God series, picks up events precisely where Hawkwood’s Voya...

After reading the first installment in Paul Kearney’s Monarchies of God quintuplet, Hawkwood’s Voyage (1995), its difficult to beli...

Glen Cook’s Black Company series has been going since 1984, ten books and counting.   Cook by and large flying low on most people’s ...

For a period of four decades, 1940s to the ‘80s, Fritz Leiber’s pair, Farfhrd and the Gray Mouser, were two of sword and sorcery’s mo...

In 1976, David Gemmell was undergoing testing for cancer, and in an effort to take his mind from the process, began putting on paper ...

In spite of its title and cover art, there are many things that Gene Wolfe’s The Wizard Knight is, and many things it is not.   Tho...

(Note that this review is for the entirety of the Malazan series-no spoilers.) Thematic at so m...

Take the philosophical concept of the original Dune trilogy, sprinkle in some basic plot devices fr...

 (This review has also been posted at www.fantasyliterature.com ) In writing reviews of fantasy, e...