Heliotrope E-Zine http://www.heliotropemag.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 15 May 2009 17:57:03 +0000 en hourly 1 New BSCReview Site Design and Name http://www.heliotropemag.com/05/new-bscreview-site-design-and-name/ http://www.heliotropemag.com/05/new-bscreview-site-design-and-name/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 17:42:35 +0000 Damon http://www.heliotropemag.com/?p=354 Bookspotcentral is now BSCReview.com and with that comes a new site design. Please be aware while all old links will work, we would appreciate you updating your blogroll and front page links to BSCreview.com

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This is a confession as much as a tribute. I am a dufus.

I came to Michael Moorcock late, an SF reader who’d taken an initially straightforward route in through the Golden Age SF of the Big Three — Asimov, Heinlein…

]]> http://www.heliotropemag.com/04/moorcock-mastery-and-mad-dance-by-hal-duncan/feed/ 0 Confessions of an Elric Fanboy by Paul S. Kemp http://www.heliotropemag.com/04/confessions-of-an-elric-fanboy-by-paul-s-kemp/ http://www.heliotropemag.com/04/confessions-of-an-elric-fanboy-by-paul-s-kemp/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:26:54 +0000 Damon http://www.heliotropemag.com/?p=257 kemp

I’ll let others speak to Moorcock’s foundational role in the genre. They are, after all, more qualified than me for that. Me? I simply have a confession to make.

I am an Elric fanboy. There. I said it. Feels good to…

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Michael Moorcock is threaded throughout the entire fabric of my childhood universe. I remember bookstores devoting entire shelves to the various novels of his multiverse, works I devoured as fast as I could get my hands on them. It was…

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    The Pale albino prince lofted on high his great black sword “This is Stormbringer” he said “and it will suck your soul right out.”

The Princess sighed. “Very well!” she said. “If that is what you need to get the…

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It was half past midnight when Jerry Cornelius returned to Tenby as a last desperate resort. There are many desperate resorts along the South Wales coast. Tenby’s turn had finally come.

    Jerry drove a Gilbern and smoked a cheroot as he…

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Brian Holt. What a great teacher.

    Good teachers bring their subject alive. They transmit their enthusiasm. It’s infectious and addictive and, apart from hooking you with a habit that will last a lifetime, they introduce you to material you’ve never previously…

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Over the years, I’ve written any number of pieces on Michael Moorcock and his work—reviews, retrospectives, tributes, and such—most of which can probably still be found online in one form or another. As I’ve said time and again, discovering Moorcock’s…

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