Earlier this year, I was jonesing for some ’80-style sword and sorcery. You know the type: big on magic, adventure, and mile-a-minute plotting. Elves, dwarves, fireball-slingin’ sorcerers, and every other fantasy trope in the rulebook. It’s a bit of a dying art form in the 21st century—except when it come to the lines of tie-in novels that […]
What do you get when you pair a con man with a magical talking sword? You get Liar’s Island, the newest Pathfinder Tales novel from Hugo Award winning author Tim Pratt. I’d never experienced the world of the Pathfinder role playing game until a friend convinced me to try it—but exploring the world of Pathfinder […]
The lest week in August brings one of the biggest books of the summer, a sequel to last year’s guiltiest (and bloodiest) SF pleasure, and a fantasy con-game involving a talking sword. So, an embarrassment of riches, really.