The Dying Earth: A Case for Sword-and-Sorcery
We’re celebrating the release of DCC Dying Earth all this Month with articles in honor of Jack Vance. The Dying Earth: A Case for Sword-and-Sorcery by Brian Murphy Travel into the future: to an earth with a dwindling red sun that meekly fills a dark blue sky; an earth that is on the brink of dying out; an earth where science and magic mean the same thing. ~ back cover blurb, Tales of the Dying Earth, Tor Books In 1950...
Words Weird and Wonderful: Jack Vance’s Dying Earth
We’re celebrating the release of DCC Dying Earth all this Month with articles in honor of Jack Vance. Words Weird and Wonderful: Jack Vance’s Dying Earth by Bill Ward By no means secondary to his innovations in diction, Jack Vance’s exacting employment of etymological rarities, conjugational novelties, and antiquated antiquaria conspires to produce a style that may only be satisfactorily appellativized as...
Classic Covers: Jack Vance
One of the benefits of being an extraordinarily productive and highly-reprinted genre writer during the mass market paperback publishing boom of the mid-twentieth century is you get a terrific amount of amazing visual art forever associated with your name. Jack Vance, author of over 60 books (whenever you see ‘over’ a certain number, that’s a pretty big clue that the author in question is so prolific that it’s...
New to DCC? Here’s Where to Start With Appendix N!
Our Appendix N Archeology and Adventures in Fiction series are meant to take a look at the writers and creators behind the genre(s) that helped to forge not only our favorite hobby but our lives. We invite you to explore the entirety of the series on our Adventures In Fiction home page. New To DCC? Here’s Where To Start With Appendix N! by Jeff Goad So you’re new to DCC RPG and you might have heard that...
Appendix N Archaeology: Clark Ashton Smith
Our Appendix N Archeology and Adventures in Fiction series are meant to take a look at the writers and creators behind the genre(s) that helped to forge not only our favorite hobby but our lives. We invite you to explore the entirety of the series on our Adventures In Fiction home page. Appendix N Archaeology: Clark Ashton Smith by Michael Curtis Gamers often point to Appendix N and decry the absence of a...
Where to Start with the Fantasy Fiction of Poul Anderson
Where to Start with the Fantasy Fiction of Poul Anderson by Bill Ward Poul Anderson (1926-2001) is one of those authors whose prolific output – over one hundred novels and at least as many short stories – is as impressive as it is potentially intimidating. A great many of our contemporary authors tend to stick with one kind of story or book for branding purposes, often adopting new pseudonyms if they dare deviate from the brand, but...
A Profile of Fletcher Hanks
A Profile of Fletcher Hanks by Joshua LH Burnett The 1940s were a unique time for comics. Superman was only a few years old, while Fredric Wertham and the subsequent Comics Code Authority were still a decade away. In this Golden Age, the very concept of what a superhero was and what superhero stories were about was still forming, nebulous and unpredictable, from chaotic clay. America’s youth had a nigh-insatiable hunger for comics,...
Classic Covers: Poul Anderson
With scores of novels spanning the popular genres of science fiction and fantasy, with hundreds of magazine and anthology appearances, and with a career spanning the most creative era of visual marketing in publishing of the 20th century, Poul Anderson’s bibliography has the quintessential ‘Classic Covers’ ingredients. Here is but a small sample of the art that brought Anderson’s stories to...
Appendix N Archaeology: William Hope Hodgson
Our Appendix N Archeology and Adventures in Fiction series are meant to take a look at the writers and creators behind the genre(s) that helped to forge not only our favorite hobby but our lives. We invite you to explore the entirety of the series on our Adventures In Fiction home page. Appendix N Archeology: William Hope Hodgson by Michael Curtis In the now famed Appendix N, Gary Gygax lists roughly thirty authors...
Adventures in Fiction: Fredric Brown
Our Adventures in Fiction series is meant to take a look at the writers and creators behind the genre(s) that helped to forge not only our favorite hobby but our lives. We invite you to explore the entirety of the series on our Adventures In Fiction home page. Adventures in Fiction: Fredric Brown by Bill Ward Anyone who has mined the treasures of Gary Gygax’s legendary Appendix N – his bibliography of fantastic...
Live Michael Moorcock Interview Airs TODAY!
TODAY at 4:00 p.m. EST—something very special is happening on The Official Goodman Games Twitch Channel! Michael Moorcock’s Elric saga is a fundamental part of Appendix N literature. His work has influenced not just every fantasy role-playing game ever published, but much of fantasy film and literature as we know it. Moorcook is a master of his craft and a luminary of the fantasy genre. The Sanctum Secorum is pleased to announce a...
Live Interview With Michael Moorcock is Tomorrow!
TOMORROW—Saturday, October 8th at 4:00 p.m. EST—something very special is happening on The Official Goodman Games Twitch Channel. Michael Moorcock’s Elric saga is a fundamental part of Appendix N literature. His work has influenced not just every fantasy role-playing game ever published, but much of fantasy film and literature as we know it. Moorcook is a master of his craft and a luminary of the fantasy genre. The Sanctum Secorum is...