Randolph Marcy by Matthew Brady, Courtesy Library of Congress, Public Domain      About 30 years ago, on a Permanent Change of Station ...

Anyone doing a historical political or trading game should have this in ther Appendix N. The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean by Raou...

Alexander Macris has been posting some publicity for this volume , so I decided to give it a shot ($2.99 on Kindle), as I have been lookin...

Been out of socket most of this month, between a cruise in the warm and a convention in Lost Wages, which wraps up tomorrow. In my travels...

Lin Carter  was the last of the great? pulp sci-fi/fantasy writers.  At least the last one I read with any consistency.I started picking u...

Not really a Book Report, but I finally updated my current reading links,  As I posted below, NPCs is definitely recommended reading for th...

Picked up the ebook from Amazon over the weekend.  The story starts in the genre of the original D&D novel, Andre Norton ' s Quag...

Quag Keep by Andre Norton , was as I mentioned during February's Blog Hop , the first D&D themed novel I ever read.  Indeed it is...

A Pleasant Little Offering A. Pleasance Liddell on the sanguinary griddle, bound to the foetid altar tight Batrachians romp throu...

Now I go to movies when my better half tells me I'm going to the movies.  Which means that other than LoTR , where I'm already fam...

Clark Ashton Smith's The End of the Story is a a chronological compilation of his work, starting from the beginning.  There are three...

I like steampunk, I read Girl Genius regularly.  I like Roman history, look at my posts on using GIMP to make campaign maps.  I was sold a...

   A big part of our canon, this is the retitled Dying Earth stories by Jack Vance, included in the original Appendix N.  Along with the tit...

Moving Pictures is the tenth novel in Pratchett's acclaimed Discworld series.  It's hard to categorize within the Discworld canon, ...