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Dark Horizons
A selection of articles from the long and glorious history of Dark Horizons, the journal of the British Fantasy Society.

Rocketing eBooks

Thursday, 16 April 2009 07:13 Stephen Theaker

I recently got rather excited about the release of the Amazon Kindle (in the US) and the Sony Reader (over here). I couldn’t afford either at the time, but it occurred to me how useful they would be for reading submissions. That reminded me that I still had my Rocket eBook, almost ten years of age now, in a box with all my other decrepit bits and bobs of technology, so I dug it out.

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Not Another Bloody Trilogy

Tuesday, 27 January 2009 22:31 Mike Chinn

This article by Mike Chinn about the trilogy phenomenon first appeared in Dark Horizons 32 (1991).

Whatever happened to Sword and Sorcery fiction? Nothing, I hear you say, go look at the bookshelves in WHSmith or Waterstone’s some time: choked with the stuff! But is that really true - I mean really, so-help-me Crom, true?

Look again at those shelves; are you sure what you’re seeing isn’t an endless line of toothless clones churned off a conveyer belt to satisfy an uncritical audience? Huh?

The noble line that began with John Carter of Mars, through Conan, out of Tolkien and Moorcock has been turned into milquetoast!

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