Meanwhile on SFFworld.com...

I don't post there, so I don't check it that often. But I happen'd across this rather interesting thread.

Apparently, some chap in Russia has written himself some Fan Fiction set in Middle Earth.. at best one could call it an "Unauthorized Pastiche".. But I prefer to reserve Pastiche for "Authorized Fan-fiction".

Anyway, they are having a very heated debate about the quality or lack thereof of this book. I dunno what to say about it really. It looks like utter drek to me. And I don't see why any of them are even treating it as if it is anything but fan-fiction..

I'll refrain from re-posting the samples given in that thread, but they are there for you if you want them.

My New Venture.

After picking up a new shipment of Books from Powell's Books of Portland Oregon yesterday at the Post Office.. I was struck by the fact that I now have all of the Conan Pastiches released between Ace books, Bantam books and Tor Books, all 102 novels and short stories featured in the William Galen Gray Chronology.

So I set up a new blog, which will chronicle my adventures through the Apocryphal Hyborean Age. That is, Not Robert E. Howard's Hyborean Age, but the adulterated and tacked on Hyborean Age. The Hyborean age which is the equivalent of Saxo's Guesta Dannorum to Robert E. Howard's 6th Century Danish Skald's version of Norse Mythology.

I hope you will have a look at it, I've posted some information to get us started and I plan to start very soon on the actual reviews.. I aim to get at least one a week done, though I understand that some of the novels are exceedingly bad.. so when I hit a stumbling point please understand.

Hyborean Apocrypha