A special treat today – a short but very interesting documentary on the making of that old animated sword & sorcery classic, Thundarr the Barbarian.
Enjoy!
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Lords of Light!
Quick notice
Quick notice: in the next few days the schedule of Karavansara will be somewhat erratic.
On the 18th I’m presenting my PhD dissertation, and this is causing some distractions.
We’ll get back on track next week.
Swords of the Four Winds
The so-called ebook revolution has brought back a number of genres and formats that for a few decades had been marginalized to say the least.
The short form is back – novelettes and novellas, novels in the 40.000-words standard of the paperbacks of old.
Pulp is making a big comeback, in all its assorted flavors – from hero pulps to adventure cliffhangers to sword & sorcery.
And for a fantasy reader, the return of sword & sorcery – the small-scale, proletarian, none-too-heroic kind of fantasy that normally involves rogues trying to save their own skin, not champions trying to save the world – is a much welcome event.
I’m currently reading – and very much enjoying – Dariel R.A. Quiogue’s Swords of the Four Winds
Tea Time
Tea is often the fuel for my writing, a dark sea keeping my stories afloat.
And the ideal meeting-place of East and West.
So, let’s learn something more about the brew…
The best bit of the week
The best bit of the week was certainly being called an “immature 14 years old” by a George R.R. Martin fan who was offended by this screenshot.
I wonder if they send hate-messages to Dan Brown too.
But maybe he does not post screenshots of his books on the Italian Amazon best seller list.
Sometimes I wish fans were not so fragile, and would not take themselves so damn seriously.
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Al fresco
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