I know I've mentioned my love for The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers several times, most recently in my review of Alternate Routes [https://thelastredoubt.com/on-higher-powers-pt-2/]. The book made a profound impact on me decades ago in middle school, and held up well as more than childhood nostalgia disorder when I read it again recently. Nevertheless, I missed a lot of the symbolism in it. For example, the connections between the events in the book and the liturgical year. Then I came acr…
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I have the pleasure of knowing Jon Mollison [http://jonmollison.com/2020/05/14/book-clubbing/], Alexandru Constantin [https://thedacian.com/2020/05/12/short-story-book-club-introduction/], and Sky Hernstrom. I got to know Sky Hernstrom as a friend before I knew he was an author, and had not read any of his work until he had released The Law of Wolves , and Mortu and Kyrus in the White City. Alexandru over at Dacian has proposed a kind of book-club blog discussion, which Jon has picked up on. A…
I know I have once mentioned Tim Powers [https://thelastredoubt.com/on-higher-powers/], and specifically the book of his that left an impression on me for nearly 40 years to the point of tracking it down and buying it. Drawing of the Dark was as good as remembered, possibly better and weirder - and so I bought a couple more of his books. While one of his better known works, Anubis Gates, is in my reading pile, I ended up reading a much more recent work first, the hidden-world modern fantasy Alte…
First, a couple good links from Pulprev author Ben Cheah's site. He had a short story in Riding the Red Horse, and also authored the excellent No Gods only Daimons, and Hammer of the Witches. I'd previously linked to him in a post on " realism [https://thelastredoubt.com/it-aint-realis/]." On his winding road to the pulp revolution [https://www.benjamincheah.com/2017/06/26/my-winding-road-towards-pulprev/]. Fantasy without fantasy [https://www.benjamincheah.com/2020/01/19/fantasy-without-fanta…
I was mostly going to leave this be. Hell, I barely heard about it as I don't usually care what Klavan and the powerline gang are saying, but "rebuttals" came up in my recommended vids, specifically one by Shad [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V56dVFBCQcc], who occasionally has interesting things to say, but man, the soy is real and he still swallows the mainstream narrative. He's also a bit too proud of his "what you think you know is wrong" schtick. Then the most excellent author John C Wrigh…