Archive for April, 2006

Best Fantasy fiction series - Part 2: Lankhmar, by Fritz Leiber

Monday, April 24th, 2006

If you love classic sword and sorcery you have to read these books. Written chiefly as books of short stories, they follow the adventures of the barbarian swordsman Fafhrd, and his wily, thief sidekick, The Gray Mouser. A gripping read about strange creatures, witchcraft, robberies and general mischief. There are 7 books in the original […]

The library is finished!

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

At long last, after 3 years of on and off construction, the library is completed! If you’re interested, take a look at all the phases or just phase 3, completed this weekend.

Best Fantasy fiction series - part 1: Steven Brust

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

I purchased my first Steven Brust book a few years ago, intrigued by the cover blurb. Who says blurbs don’t sell books? That book was Jhereg, the first in the Vlad Taltos series. Taltos is a sort of assassin, hit-man, expert swordsman with a passing command of witchcraft. There is a quotation on the […]