Next SFF Author: Ben Aaronovitch

Day: March 12, 2020


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Thoughtful Thursday: Ssssssnakesssss!

Snakes. They just don’t get a break. Adam and Eve. Cleopatra’s asp. Those ones on a plane. Even our very first story ever, Gilgamesh, has a snake screwing things up at the end.

And here we are about to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, and of course, one of his biggest claims to fame is how he drove those poor snakes out of Ireland entire.

Well, we’re here to speak for the snakes! (albeit not in parceltongue). Where would myth and fantasy be without them?

So, who are some of your favorite snakes and serpents appearing in fantasy,


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The Drums of Tapajos: A middling lost-world adventure

The Drums of Tapajos by S. P. Meek

As you may have noticed, over the past six months I have been dipping into Armchair Fiction’s current Lost World/Lost Race series of 24 novels, and with mixed results. One thing I have observed is that the best of this bunch — such as Frank Aubrey’s The King of the Dead (1903), Rex Stout’s Under the Andes (1914), John Taine’s The Purple Sapphire (1924) and A.


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Next SFF Author: Ben Aaronovitch

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