by A.S. Hardin | Feb 14, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
When True Night Falls is the second book in C.S. Friedman’s Coldfire series. In this extraordinarily well-crafted world of Erna, True Night refers to a period when the sun is completely absent and the world is thrust into complete darkness. In this darkness, the...
by A.S. Hardin | Nov 8, 2024 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
“I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.” Though A Princess of Mars isn’t ERB’s most successful work, it is still one of the many great pulp sci-fi stories in history....
by A.S. Hardin | Sep 13, 2024 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
I have always loved cryptids, specifically Bigfoot and Yeti. Maybe it’s because I’m drawn to stories about the unknown, or because I enjoy ones of survival in inhospitable or uninhabited settings, or maybe it’s because I’ve grown up with the legend of the Alabama...
by A.S. Hardin | Jul 12, 2024 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
While it may appear Black Sun Rising is a typical good vs evil quest tale, that would be an incorrect assumption. First, Friedman crafts her world in meticulous detail with an incredible amount of rich history and magical depth, expertly making the futuristic world of...
by A.S. Hardin | Apr 14, 2024 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
For years, I’ve held on to a very mortifying secret, one that could have led to my being ostracized by many ardent lovers of the fantasy genre. In all my forty-three years of life, I had never read The Hobbit. I am now proud to announce that this has recently changed....
