WBH Weekly Digest 2023-04-21

Seven Ages of Western Eurasia

A brief outline of the 11,700 years from the Anatolian Farmers to the Present

NemetsPeter Nimitz

Nemets lays out a synoptic history of the Eurasian peninsula.

Snakes on a Plane

Book reviews and literary criticism of adventure stories, along with an archive of John J. Reilly’s The Long View

With Both HandsBenjamin Espen

Stone Age Herbalist speculates about the style of folk art and what you might be able to deduce about its makers.

Rocket propelled

But I don’t think they actually exist

With Both HandsBenjamin Espen

A letter to fantasy authors

Misha Burnett argues that interminable series have not served audiences well.

More from Cirsova on why self-contained works offer a better experience to readers than long series.

Eucatastrophe

“But the ‘consolation’ of fairy-tales has another aspect than the imaginative satisfaction of ancient desires. Far more important is the Consolation of the Happy Ending. Almost I would venture to assert that all complete fairy-stories must have it. At least I would say that Tragedy is the true form…

With Both HandsBenjamin Espen

Savage Headhunters Book Review

Savage Headhunters by J. Manfred Weichsel may be his most horrible book yet. Given that previous books have involved cross-breeding humans and chimpanzees, angels lusting after human women, and the sexual perversity of Hollywood, this is quite an accomplishment. The target of Weichsel’s satire in S…

With Both HandsBenjamin Espen

My review of J. Manfred Weichsel's anti-war satire Savage Headhunters.

Friend of the blog Isegoria writes about the influence of The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson.

Nightland Racer — With Both Hands

Nightland Racer is Fenton Wood’s completely gonzo fable about a down on his luck former bootlegger who drives a nuclear-powered truck into the future to battle a malevolent black hole. The past, the present, and the future meet in a world where myths are truer than truth, and the stakes are nothing

With Both HandsBenjamin Espen

Author Fenton Wood's Nightland Racer is a completely gonzo fable about a down on his luck former bootlegger who drives a nuclear-powered truck into the future to battle a malevolent black hole, modern science fantasy [and yet the hardest of hard sci-fi] inspired by Hodgson's book.

Soon

The Long View Re-publishing Project will have news soon. Why post old articles? Who was John J. Reilly? All of John’s posts here An archive of John’s site

With Both HandsBenjamin Espen

The cover reveal for John J. Reilly's Spengler's Future.