Adventures in Fiction: Michael Moorcock
Dec17

Adventures in Fiction: Michael Moorcock

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. Happy Birthday to Michael Moorcock, a Big Writer with Big Ideas by Terry Olson “I think of myself as a bad writer with big...

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Replay of Michael Moorcock Interview on YouTube!
Dec16

Replay of Michael Moorcock Interview on YouTube!

The legend returns — catch up with him on YouTube! Recently Michael Moorcock sat down with Sanctum Secorum for a freewheeling discussion on fantasy and Moorcock’s latest work. If you missed this special live episode when it aired on Twitch last week, now is your chance to watch it on YouTube! Join Jen, Bob, Marc, and guest of honor Michael Moorcock below to catch up with a living legend of imaginative fiction! And for more...

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Michael Moorcock Interview Airs Today at 4 pm Eastern!
Dec09

Michael Moorcock Interview Airs Today at 4 pm Eastern!

The legend returns! Today, Saturday, December 9th, at 4:00 pm EST, Michael Moorcock will be returning to the Goodman Games Official Twitch Channel! In this special one hour live episode of Sanctum Secorum, Michael Moorcock will be answering even more questions about his life and works. Fans can email questions in advance to TheHub@Sanctum.media The show will be broadcast live on The Official Goodman Games twitch channel, and will...

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Sifting Through a Sword-and-Sorcery Definition
Jan27

Sifting Through a Sword-and-Sorcery Definition

Sifting Through a Sword-and-Sorcery Definition by Brian Murphy When Michael Moorcock asked readers in the May 1961 issue of Amra to “put a tag” on the style of fantasy he was writing with his Elric stories, he cast a wide net, letting it drag through a sea of stories that readers today would likely consider heroic fantasy, high fantasy, or sword-and-sorcery—or all of the above: We have two tags, really — SF and “Fantasy” —...

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Archetypes of Adventure: Conan and Elric
Jan17

Archetypes of Adventure: Conan and Elric

Archetypes of Adventure: Conan and Elric by Bill Ward Few characters in fantasy are as iconic as Conan the Cimmerian: black-haired barbarian warrior with the deadly grace of a panther and the impressive physique of a prize fighter, a wanderer, a reaver, and a king by his own hand. Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melnibone perhaps rivals Conan in terms of iconic status (if not exactly in market saturation), perhaps in part due to his...

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Adventures in Fiction: Zenith the Albino
Dec23

Adventures in Fiction: Zenith the Albino

Appendix N Archaeology: Zenith the Albino by Terry Olson “To this day I advise people who want to write fantastic fiction for a living to stop reading generic fantasy and to go back to the roots of the genre as deeply as possible, the way anyone might who takes his craft seriously. One avoids becoming a Tolkien clone precisely by returning to the same roots that inspired The Lord of the Rings.”           –...

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