Ralif Redhammer
Legend
Though perhaps that should be Frozen February...
Finished reading Abraham Merritt’s The Moon Pool. It’s a weird tale, almost two separate ones. It opens with some bone-chilling cosmic horror, but then moves to an underground fantasy that assuredly was an influence on the Underdark, with its cruel societies, bioluminescent fungi, and dread monsters.
Then I re-read R.E. Howard’s Red Nails. Man, R.E. Howard used to be one of my favorites. But reading his work is like talking to that sexist, racist uncle at the holidays – all’s going well until he says something awful. Repeatedly. Which is a shame, because Red Nails is a wonderful story, tense and full of action and vivid descriptions…and a whole lot of racist, sexist attitudes.
Now I’m reading Nnedi Orokafor’s Binti.
Finished reading Abraham Merritt’s The Moon Pool. It’s a weird tale, almost two separate ones. It opens with some bone-chilling cosmic horror, but then moves to an underground fantasy that assuredly was an influence on the Underdark, with its cruel societies, bioluminescent fungi, and dread monsters.
Then I re-read R.E. Howard’s Red Nails. Man, R.E. Howard used to be one of my favorites. But reading his work is like talking to that sexist, racist uncle at the holidays – all’s going well until he says something awful. Repeatedly. Which is a shame, because Red Nails is a wonderful story, tense and full of action and vivid descriptions…and a whole lot of racist, sexist attitudes.
Now I’m reading Nnedi Orokafor’s Binti.