Tag Archives: sword and sorcery

Pulp Appeal: CIRSOVA #5

Posted on April 9, 2018 by

CIRSOVA: Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine recently released their seventh issue and in celebration they made issue five free on Amazon. I’d been meaning to pick up an issue anyway, and this acted as the perfect excuse to do … Continue reading →

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Pulp Consumption: Swords Against Darkness

Posted on January 8, 2018 by

I originally became aware of the most recent SWORDS AGAINST DARKNESS anthology from browsing Black Gate[1]. Unlike the same-named anthologies put out in the late seventies edited by Andrew Offutt, this anthology isn’t concerned exclusively with what’s current in sword … Continue reading →

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Issue 2 Now Available!

Posted on July 17, 2017 by

That’s right folks, the second issue of Broadswords and Blasters is now live and ready for purchase. Grab your hard copy here, or if you’d rather get your pulp dead tree free, well, that’s available too. And while we are … Continue reading →

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Pulp Appeal: Jirel of Joiry

Posted on June 5, 2017 by

C.L. Moore, stands out as one of the godparents of sword and sorcery and science-fiction, and nowhere is this more apparent than in her creation, Jirel of Joiry. Jirel stands out for several reasons as a character of the Golden … Continue reading →

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Pulp Appeal: Egil & Nix

Posted on May 15, 2017 by

I first came across Paul S. Kemp’s characters of Egil and Nix in the highly recommended Blackguards anthology put out by Ragnarok Press, and I have been sure to pick up their individual novels . Coming across as a couple … Continue reading →

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Pulp Appeal: Elric of Melniboné

Posted on May 1, 2017 by

  I can pinpoint exactly when I first came across Elric, the doomed albino sorcerer-king of Melniboné. I was a freshman in high school, and there, among the rest of the science-fiction and fantasy books in the school library were … Continue reading →

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Pulp Appeal: Conan the Barbarian

Posted on April 17, 2017 by

Trying to pin down when I originally was exposed to Conan, the world-travelling barbarian created by Robert E. Howard, is tricky. It might have been watching edited versions of Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer when I was a … Continue reading →

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