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karavansara east of constantinople west of shanghai menu home about about davide mana books reviews links aculeo amunet features how to be a pulp hero for less than 100 bucks how to be an adventurer for real worldbuilding resources contact re con karavansara east of constantinople west of shanghai 11 july 2024 by davide mana leave a comment message for the world cheers despite the ongoing gossip i m not dead i m in intensive therapy without full use of my hands i m dictating this text and i foresee many more months of therapy thank you for your worries i ll try to right back i still live categories my projects permalink 23 december 2023 by davide mana leave a comment happy holidays categories other people s pulp tags christmas pulps permalink 1 november 2023 by davide mana leave a comment arabian nights november the experiment of re reading roger zelazny s a night in the lonesome october and writing about it on my patreon was fun and successful so i decided to do another experiment ever since i started blogging i had this idea of doing a deep dive into the arabian nights reading the stories in the book and then exploring history folklore narrative technique end the connections with film tv fantasy fiction comics music and what else and let s admit it it would be a monumental achievement but why not start small the dover thrift editions book favorite tales from the arabian nights entertainments does exactly what if says on the tin it collects a brief selection of arabian nights tales including the tales of sinbad aladdin and ali baba it is a fair starting point and it uses the translations of sir richard burton that are in the public domain so i can link the stories to my patrons and do not have to ask my already paying readers to pay again for the book nice and smooth so today we begin and if you re interested you can join for as little as one buck for this month and who knows maybe stay a little longer for the other contents too i ll strive to make you stay actually we even have some music categories armchair adventuring books tags arabian nights patreon permalink 2 october 2023 by davide mana leave a comment thanks darby a new review of my novel dreams of fire was posted on amazon i was initially confused by the mention of darby hawing one time been introduced as daniele menna instead of davide mana i ll have to tell you that story one day i tend to be paranoid about names but it turns out darby is the narrator of the audiobook version of my novel and so i owe them a big thank you for contributing to make my story truly shine thanks mate categories books my projects tags dreams of fire permalink 2 october 2023 by davide mana leave a comment a night in the lonesome october again i found out about a night in the lonesome october about twenty years ago thanks to my friend eckhard which is strange because i love zelazny and yet his final novel had gone unnoticed for almost a decade i got me a copy and read it in two days it was not october i think it was in april but the book was great anyway written apparently on a dare to show you could write a story and have people root for jack the ripper a night in the lonesome october turned out to be one of my favorite books by a favorite writer of mine and so when i was invited to join the ritual in this year of our lord 2023 and read the novel again one chapter a day throughout the month of october i readily accepted my copy is buried in some box somewhere so i acquired an ebook edition in order to be able to read it anywhere anytime this october will feature a friday the 13th a lunar eclipse and many other wonders one of these will be roger zelazny s aclectic masterwork categories armchair adventuring books my projects tags a night in the lonesome october roger zelazny permalink 30 september 2023 by davide mana leave a comment cimmerian september 12 the hour of the dragon from december 1935 to april 1936 weird tales was the home of the only full length conan novel by robert e howard and it feels right to post about it as the last entry in this long cimmerian september i have been unable to do one post for every story as i planned i am somewhat overworked that s good my mortgage will be happy i have problems with my eyesight and i feel the tiredness of this overheated september but the hour of the dragon deserves a full post there was a british publisher dennis archer that was interested in bringing conan to the uk but before committing to the series he wanted a novel to introduce the character and the hyborian age to british readers and so howard wrote a novel the hour of the dragon is an episodic novel going back to the origins of the series and starting off with yet another palace conspiracy and a revived sorcerer and king conan losing his crown and being imprisoned in a dungeon it s the scarlet citadel all over again but this time conan is helped by a slave girl zenobia and not by a manipulating spellcaster to defeat the sorcerer xaltotun from the ancient and evil empire of acheron conan needs the heart of arhiman thus escaping his prison conan embarks on a long quest that reads as a travelogue of his world and a recap of his previous adventures the novel is fun the call backs to conan s early adventures are fine the style is solid the pace fast its episodic nature each chapter working as an adventure has often been used to support the idea that sword sorcery works best in short stories and if you want a novel length book you might as well write a series of shorts with an overarching metaplot debatable but interesting on the down side xaltotun is an ok adversary but not overly original and zenobia coming after characters like belit valeria or yasmina is not memorable it was karl edward wagner if i remember correctly that said the final promise from conan to make her his queen is just empty talk on the part of the barbarian and only because de camp and carter it did come true in subsequent apocrypha when i first read the novel seventeen years old me was much more impressed by akivasha the immortal vampiress witch residing underneath a pyramid in stygia sure she is a rep off of h rider haggard s ayesha but the stygian chapter of the hour of the dragon was forever burned in my synapses i am akivasha i am the woman who never died who never grew old who fools say was lifted from the earth by the gods in the full bloom of her youth and beauty to queen it forever in some celestial clime nay it is in the shadows that mortals find immortality ten thousand years ago i died to live for ever give me your lips strong man back when i first discovered conan this novel called conan the conqueror in the l sprague de camp edit was almost impossible to find in the italian edition and if found it was priced high above the possibilities of a high schooler but i did find a battered copy of the hour of the dragon in the berkley edition curated by k e wagner much later i was in my thirties i managed to find a copy of the hardback donald m grant edition it s still here on my shelf it s probably worth money the hour of the dragon is almost the concise conan the cimmerian it features high adventure intrigue horror magic and battles with a smattering of hyborian history and geography it was designed by howard as an introduction to the series and as such works perfectly it is to quote l sprage de camp a sanguinary combination of sorcery skulduggery and swordplay we are not asking for more categories armchair adventuring books cimmerian september other people s pulp tags cimmerian september robert e howard the hour of the dragon permalink 27 september 2023 by davide mana leave a comment cimmerian september 11 river shadows and nails you cannot but feel an almost physical painful sense of surprise you run headlong with the fantastical adventures of conan and all of a sudden it s over and not only that because robert e howard is no more beyond the black river appears in the may 1935 issue of weird tales that shares with the flower women by c a smith and a reprint of lovecraft s arthur jermyn it is with little doubt one of the better stories by howard clearly inspired by the tales by fenimore cooper it is mature tense desperate in its conclusion in barely features conan who acts an accessory the focus of the action is balthus a young man caught in the advancing tide of pictish invaders sweeping the newly settled lands beyond the black river it is the story of balthus and his dog slasher fighting to the death the forces that are destined to obliterate the hyborians ephemeral civilization it is powerful in portraying the hopeless heroism of its characters and lives a lasting impression in the reader it certainly left a lasting impression in me come november 1935 weird tales puts howard next story on the cover and thus shadows in zamboula again leaves a lasting impression in the reader if for very different reasons a particularly prudish google in its 25th anniversary hindered my search for a high quality image of the cover fearing for my immortal soul or my eyesight or some other nonsense here it is courtesy of the always great margaret brundage the story is routine conan but fun as conan saves a naked woman in the streets of zamboula only to be drawn into a palace intrigue and a cult of cannibals it is fast paced and grimly humorous it features a bad guy named baal pteor an in joke for conan readers and the revenge of conan on the innkeeper who tried to sell him as dinner for cannibals is memorable next in a strict chronological order is the hour of the dragon the only complete novel ever written by robert e howard but i ll save that for the final post in this series and then is red nails which i have already discussed here the story ran in weird tales from july to october 1936 once again getting one brundage cover that google is worried i am looking for but of course howard had ended his life on june 11th of that year it was all over categories armchair adventuring cimmerian 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