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Episode 19 - Jack Vance's "The Eyes of the Overworld" with special guest David Hoskins
The Eyes of the Overworld (Ace Books, 1966) marks Jack Vance’s return to the Dying Earth setting after a break of 15 years. The book is a fix-up of t…
8 years, 9 months ago
Episode 18 - Fritz Leiber's "Swords Against Death" with special guest Jen Brinkman
Swords Against Death (Ace Books, 1970) by Fritz Leiber was originally published in paperback as part of Ace Books’ complete seven volume saga of Fafh…
8 years, 9 months ago
Episode 17 - Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, & Lin Carter’s “Conan of Cimmeria”
Conan of Cimmeria (Lancer Books, 1969) by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, and Lin Carter was part of first comprehensive paperback edition of t…
8 years, 9 months ago
Episode 16 - L. Sprague de Camp's "Lest Darkness Fall"
L. Sprague de Camp’s Lest Darkness Fall first saw light as a short story in the December 1939 issue of Unknown magazine before being expanded into a …
8 years, 10 months ago
Episode 15 - Lin Carter's "Giant of World's End"
Lin Carter has a multi-faceted reputation in the world of fantastic fiction. As an editor and critic, he is virtually indispensable, most notably for…
8 years, 10 months ago
Episode 14 - Sterling E. Lanier's "Hiero's Journey"
There’s surprisingly little reliable biographical information about Sterling E. Lanier, but like many Appendix N authors he does seem to have been a …
8 years, 10 months ago
Episode 13 - Gardner F. Fox's "Kothar: Barbarian Swordsman"
J.R.R. Tolkien and perhaps Robert E. Howard aside, no Appendix N author has had as a large a pop culture footprint as Gardner F. Fox, but not for any…
8 years, 10 months ago
Episode 12 - Michael Moorcock's "The Stealer of Souls"
Michael Moorcock’s first five Elric of Melniboné stories appeared in the British magazine Science Fantasy in 1962 and were collected in hardcover the…
8 years, 11 months ago
Episode 11 - John Bellairs's "The Face in the Frost"
At first glance John Bellairs’s The Face in the Frost is a bit of an anomaly, both in his own body of work and in Appendix N. It is the only Bellairs…
8 years, 11 months ago
Episode 10 - Roger Zelazny's "Jack of Shadows"
Roger Zelazny stated that he wrote Jack of Shadows as a “first draft, no rewrite”, which might account for the occasionally elliptical nature of the …
8 years, 11 months ago