Philip Francis Nowlan’s Armageddon 2419 A.D. is a sci-fi classic, a book I’ve long wanted to read and I finally got around to it. For those who think you’ve never heard of this book, chances are you know of it by the name of the central figure … Buck Rogers. It’s 1927 and WWI vet Anthony Rogers,… Continue reading

I’d been hearing a bit of buzz about this book and so I was quite looking forward to it. 1912, Vancouver Island. Eighteen-year-old Edwin St. Andrew has crossed the Atlantic by steamship. He enters the Canadian wilderness, open to exploring and taking in what he might see when he hears the haunting sounds of a violin… Continue reading

The saga of the damned albino prince of Melniboné continues in another novel composed of three novellas in The Bane of the Black Sword. As the title might suggest, Elric’s cursed sword, the soul-drinking runeblade known as Stormbringer plays a larger part in this collection. We have the ‘usual’ three novellas making up this book, with a short extra.… Continue reading

Three novellas in one title, as seems to be the pattern with the Elric books. “Concerning the Fate of Empires,” “Esbern Snare; The Northern Werewolf,” and “A Rose Redeemed; A Rose Revived.” Elric, the albino prince of the doomed city of Melniboné still cavorts with his friend Moonglum when Elric is visited by a dragon… Continue reading

It’s Elric time again, as I am working my way through the entire series. As with the four previous Elric books, there are three ‘books’ between the covers – likely novellas or novelettes. In the first, “The Torment of the Last Lord,” Elric and his faithful servant Sancho Moonglum head off to confront the evil wizard Theleb K’aarna… Continue reading