Way back in 1982 in El Paso Texas in a bookstore that disappeared only months later I bought a book I’d only heard about in…
Another Obscure S-List Writer
Tag: fantasy
I first became interested in Richard H. Fay’s short stories due to comparisons to two different authors. I didn’t know the exact titles at the…
Long ago, Jeff Rients wrote about the genre of Dungeons & Dragons. He described it as, “You play Conan, I play Gandalf. We team up…
Slaying a Tyrant starts off with the titular tyrant and shows his disregard for the norms of his culture. Isn’t that the nature of a tyrant? A ruler, no matter how absolute his power, that stays within the bounds, formal or informal, placed on his power is not a tyrant. One who breaks no formal law, but who violates informal norms, often is a tyrant.
Good morning. Today is the third Sunday of Pascha, the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women, Joseph of Arimathea, and Nicodemus.