Cataline makes an excellent observation I think, with the caveat that, quite obviously, GoT/ASoIaF is set in a fantasy universe. Game of Thrones is horror [https://darkherald.net/2019/05/22/game-of-thrones-is-not-fantasy/], and that's pretty much what George knows how to write. > I remember skimming back and forth in the first two books of the series (the only ones I read, I grant you), trying to find a battle scene and there just isn’t one. What you get are people describing the the aftermath…
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In case you didn't look at the battle for Winterfell or mz Dragonmom losing another of her kids through criminal carelessness and go " a six year old could have planned better", here's a couple of more pedantic breakdowns of how that could have been done better.…
Missed the usual G/F posts - so I'll put up a bit of Frazetta.…
In our sadly simplified age we tend to either have overtly, almost desperately, happy or overtly grimdark (and these are sold as "intelligent", and "real"), and I know far too many who see a dark tale of virtue and hope and cannot see the light at the end, as if it's been trained out. I ended up watching the movie version of Solomon Kane [https://infogalactic.com/info/Solomon_Kane_(film)] due to the recommendation of Razorfist (and if you dig up the youtube video, the recommended book of collec…
I've got a soft spot in my heart for Alan Dean Foster. I don't think anyone would accuse the man of being a great writer, but he was certainly a consistent workman and craftsman who could tell a decent tale. He could take a movie script and turn it into an engaging read, but was also a prolific writer with several series of books of his own, as well as one-offs and short stories. His "Why Johnny Can't Drive" was one of the listed inspirations for Steve Jackson Games Car Wars. Most…