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I really wish I could recommend Saladin Ahmed's "Throne of the Crescent Moon" (and the prequel novella "Where Virtue Lives") as modern sword & sorcery with a non-Western approach. Excellent writing and storytelling. Unfortunately he's joined the growing list of authors who start series and...

Presumably he didn't intend to be a very hands-on kind of doctor. Edit: there's a "lay on hands" healing pun in there too, but I can't be bothered to work it out.

Yup, I still read Conan. At least the REH stories. I've tried reading some of the pastiches, but they feel flat by comparison. I've also recently been rereading Jirel of Joiry, Solomon Kane, Lankhmar. The modern equivalent of old-fashioned sword & sorcery seems to be grimdark, and I enjoy Joe...

Let's all toast him on March Fo(u)rth.

If I'm not mistaken (and I can't be bothered to check), he was also in Schwarzenegger's Red Heat. Credited as Larry Fishburne.

It reminds me of ZZ Top's "Rough Boy" video.

BECMI.

And this reminds me of "Hiero's Journey" and "The Unforsaken Hiero" by Sterling E. Lanier. Rangers, priests, psionics, druids, psionics-enhancing machinery, evolved animals and plants, evil psionic sorcerers, a giant intelligent slug... So much promise, so much frustration that he never...

"The Stainless Steel Rat" or "Lankhmar".

My wife and I usually play the game of "what demographic is watching this programme, at this time of day, according to the commercials?"

How about the funk of forty thousand years?

How old is Rupert Grint?

I think the entire Empire in Andor was scary because they were all just people doing their jobs, following procedure, defending their little bit of turf in their office politics. But all those little bits add up to a colossal galactic tyranny.

Rust monsters are presumably why the Industrial Revolution never happens in D&D worlds. With so much iron around, they'd just increase in numbers. Or else disgruntled artisanal workers would release a few near the railways or factories. You really don't want to be on a train and discover that a...

I picture rows of machines for playing Pacman, Donkey Kong, Galagga, Dig Dug, Frogger and so on.

Knowing, as a commoner, that the cat is likely to win.

Or a CEO on Undercover Boss.