John R. Fultz's Blog, page 64
May 10, 2013
May 7, 2013
Essential Truths V
“The brain is an observation deck for the universe to look at itself.”
–Deepak Chopra
May 3, 2013
Essential Truths IV
“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
–Buddha
April 30, 2013
Essential Truths III
“Mastery of the world is achieved by letting things take their natural course.
If you interfere with the way of Nature, you can never master the world.”
— Lao Tzu
April 28, 2013
Essential Truths II
“Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.”
— Blackfoot Proverb
April 26, 2013
Essential Truths I
“All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration…we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively…there is no such thing as death…
life is only a dream…and we are the imagination of ourselves.”
–Bill Hicks
April 19, 2013
New BLACK SABBATH – “God Is Dead?”
The original lineup of the mighty BLACK SABBATH has recorded a new album (well, all except the original drummer who has been replaced by Brad Wilk from RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE!)
with one of rocks’ greatest producers, Rick Rubin.
Today the revitalized Sabbath released their first new single “God is Dead?” — and Holy Thor is it EPIC! Nearly nine minutes of dark doom and soul-searching phantasmagoria, with all the sludgy brilliance you’d except from the Grandfathers of Heavy Metal.
Crank it up.
April 14, 2013
“Dead City Radio and the New Gods of Supertown”
The brand-new song and video from Rob Zombie is sheer bombastic fun
with a nod to classic horror, 70s comics, and 80s boomboxes.
Crank it up and get on down…
March 24, 2013
THE REVELATIONS OF ZANG: Cover Preview
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Man, do I love showing off gorgeous book covers…
So here’s the just-finished cover for my first-ever short story collection
THE REVELATIONS OF ZANG:
Twelve Tales of the Continent.
This collection will be released in a few weeks—first on Kindle and later in a limited print run. Artist Josh Finney (Titanium Rain) has outdone himself!
Pictured here are Artifice the Quill and Taizo of Narr, who are the two main recurring characters in these twelve interrelated tales of dark fantasy.
I once referred to these stories as “Pen & Sorcery” (rather than “Sword & Sorcery”) because their central protagonist is an author/playwright instead of a sword-swinging warrior. Yet there is plenty of swashbuckling adventure and fantastic sorcery here.
Artifice the Quill was born in the pages of WEIRD TALES #340 and soon migrated to BLACK GATE for a series of appearances. Seven of these tales are appearing for the first time in this collection.
Here’s a detailed description:
Artifice the Quill flees from tyrant sorcerers into a world of strange magic, ancient gods, and exotic kingdoms. The exiled author joins a traveling troupe of performers known as the Glimmer Faire, where he learns the magical power of art and the art of magical power. These Twelve Tales of the Continent alternate between the exploits of Artifice and the adventures of Taizo the Rogue, a master of skullduggery who sparks a rebellion in the name of bloody vengeance.
The Lost Gods of Narr were displaced a century ago by the Sorcerer Kings, a council of dictators who rule the Golden City with necromancy, alchemy, and terror. The mysterious folk of the Red Isle foster dissension in Narr by smuggling their enchanted goods into the city, while the ancient Zang Forest expands itself across the lands of men, devouring farms and towns as it reaches to smother the wicked city. Now that the Lost Gods are returning to destroy the world, only Artifice, Taizo, and a small band of rebels have any hope of preventing the apocalypse.
And the complete Table of Contents:
FOREWORD: Elements of the Fantastic
PRELUDE: The Vintages of Dream
The Persecution of Artifice the Quill
Oblivion Is the Sweetest Wine
The Liberation of Lady Veronique
When the Glimmer Faire Came to the City of the Lonely Eye
The Rebirth of Zang
The Doom of the Black Urchin
The Bountiful Essence of the Empty Hand
What Grows in the Season of Sorcery?
Treasures of the Prophet
Return of the Quill
Spilling the Blood of the World
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When the Kindle version becomes available I will be sure to announce it right here, as well as on Facebook and Twitter. A very limited print run will also be available, but there is no release date yet.
The Kindle version should be out by May (from 01 Publishing).
March 12, 2013
SEVEN SORCERERS: The Cover
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Feast your eyes…
Today Orbit Books released the official cover design for SEVEN SORCERERS.
The third volume in the Books of the Shaper trilogy comes your way this December.
Artist Rich Anderson has done it again; this is my favorite cover of the entire trilogy.
In this Final Book of the Shaper the two sides of the world meet at last in a cataclysmic clash of swords and sorcery; the secrets of the Shaper and the Old Breed are revealed; and shape of the future will be determined by the fates of SEVEN SORCERERS.
