Podcasts about Fletcher Pratt

How can a new nation establish itself amidst the networks and intrigues of a very old part of the world, while at the same time trying to be different from everyone else? Are these inherently contradictory aims? And how can either–or none–of these objectives be achieved by civil servants who are engaging in, at best, on the job training?  These are some of the questions that are prompted by studying the First Barbary War, fought by the young United States from 1801 to 1805 along the coast of North Africa. Far from being a story simply of simple and straightforward naval derring-do, it is one of strategic ambiguity, diplomatic finesse, and the ideological aspirations of a new nation set against the backdrop of world war and millennia old customs.  With me to discuss the First Barbary War is Abby Mullen, Assistant Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy. She is also the impresario of not one but two podcasts: Consultation Prize, a limited run series about US diplomacy from the ground-eye viewpoint of American consuls, and Big If True, a podcast for kids which is co-hosted with her daughter. But today we are (mostly) talking about her new book To Fix a National Character: The United States in the First Barbary War, 1800–1805. For Further Information William Eaton is the subject of the portrait above; for a little something about the "Burr Conspiracy", in which Eaton may have participated and against which he then gave evidence, see Episode 344  As mentioned in the podcast, Daniel Herschenzohn in Episode 95 explained the complex economy in the Mediterranean that centered on the redemption of prisoners. But the only time that consuls have shown up was very recently, in Episode 359.  Here's a link to Abby Mullen's Consolation Prize, a limited series podcast "about the history of the United States in the world through the eyes of its consuls." And one to Big If True,  "a podcast for kids exploring the truth about big things" co-hosted with her daughter, but which is now alas lapsed into a podcast doze. For on the American wars on the Barbary coast, see Frank Lambert's The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World; for a now very old book full of swashbuckling derring-do, and not very many strategic complications, see Fletcher Pratt, Preble's Boys: Commodore Preble and the Birth of American Sea Power. 

From The Files of Ellis H. ParkerEpisode 267 is adapted from a first-person article in True Detective Mysteries, December 1928, written from the perspective of Detective Ellis H. Parker of Mount Holly, New Jersey, who during his career was known as “America's Sherlock Holmes.”  He solved 288 of the 300 major crimes he worked on during his career, obtaining signed confessions in more than half of them. His most high-profile case was the Lindbergh kidnapping. Stories of his cases were collected in a book by Fletcher Pratt titled “The Cunning Mulatto” in 1935.AD-FREE EditionBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support.

The Blue Star

Tonight Robert had the conversation of a lifetime as he got to get down and Nerdy with Retired English, Journalism, and Creative Writing Professor, Frank Coffman. Finally, Frank answered Robert's burning questions about Fletcher Pratt and the Trap Door Spiders and their link to Kolchak. We also learned Frank has formally studied the type of mathematical literary criticism of creative writing that helped identify the Unabomber, and has written and edited many works of poetry, is one of the foremost authorities of Conan The Barbarian, while also rocking a wicked Kolsplay costume in the making. Last but not least, off the air, Robert learned Frank has something in common with one of Bradley's favorite Astonishing Legends guests and Robert is cooking up a special crossover episode where Frank will join us again for a conversation with that guest and about that topic. Listen in and be ready for Frank's post Stoker Con Kolchak 50 Years Panel and we'll dive even deeper into Frank's academic perspective of Kolchak.

Ginny Loveday joins us to discuss Fletcher Pratt's "Invaders from Rigel", small books with even smaller fonts, colonialism, space travellers who don't understand combustibles, goofily over-capable heroes, interesting adversaries, home play vs organized play, overly replying on combat to handle challenges, separating the art from the artist, and much more!

Based on a story by Fletcher Pratt; written for radio by Laurie R Vasquez The strangest invasion of Earth ever. Disguised Pink Elephants are a walking nightmare not an hallucinogenic dream. 

He is quoted often, correctly and incorrectly, but few have actually read his works in full - and even fewer know much about the man himself, Major General Carl von Clausewitz, Kingdom of Prussia.Out guest for the full hour will be Donald Stoker, author of the new book, Clausewitz: His Life and Work. Stoker is a Professor of Strategy and Policy for the U.S. Naval War College's program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.His previous book, The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War, won the distinguished Fletcher Pratt award for the best non-fiction Civil War book of 2010. Past winners include Bruce Catton and Shelby Foote.

Episodio 370. Un invito alla lettura, da parte di Massimo De Santo, di Apprendisti Stregoni (1941) di L. Sprague De Camp e Fletcher Pratt e Opzioni (1975) di Robert Sheckley. Per l'immagine di copertina: © Aventi diritto. All rights reserved.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/fantascienticast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Un invito alla lettura, da parte del CylonProf Massimo De Santo, di Apprendisti Stregoni di L. Sprague De Camp e Fletcher Pratt e Opzioni di Robert Sheckley. Leggi di più su Fantascientificast.com - Pubblicazione amatoriale. Non si intende infrangere alcun copyright, i cui diritti appartengono ai rispettivi detentori - Autorizzazione SIAE 5612/I/5359.

Hoi and Jeff discuss liminal spaces, war, peace, and fear of masculine vulnerability in Fletcher Pratt's "The Well of the Unicorn" with special guest Strix Beltrán!

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Originally aired under Dimension X in 1950, it was replayed in JUL-1955 under X minus 1.Written by Fletcher Pratt, this short story takes us on a crazy journey into the sanitariums of the late 1940s. Based on the intro, this tale claims to be a true story - what do you think?Check out www.oldtimefuturefunhour.com for more details, and to get the full episode yourself.

In which we have a martini, read a scroll, and practice magic.Episode 237, No Forwarding Address(download or listen via this link)Book InformationStory rating: G for tall tales in tavernsNo Forwarding Address by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt is under copyright. This story is shared under the Fair Use Act as an illustration of this duo's writing. Views to the contrary, please contact me (my email is in the sidebar).Podcast HighlightJourney IntoSeeing Ear Theater

'Limited War' is one of the terms making a frequent appearance in the strategic studies, international relations, and military history realms over the last 70 years. What does 'Limited War' mean? When do we know we are in one? What unique problems arise when waging one? What are the problems with ending them? And what should states do to secure a lasting peace? Distinguished Vienna Diplomatic Academy Fulbright Professor Donald Stoker discusses these issues and others by drawing upon what he has learned researching the subject for his forthcoming book from Cambridge University Press. Donald Stoker, PhD, was Professor of Strategy and Policy for the US Naval War College's Monterey Program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, from 1999 until 2017. The author or editor of eight books, his Carl von Clausewitz: His Life and Work (Oxford University Press, 2014), is on the British Army professional reading list. His The Grand Design: Strategy and the US Civil War, 1861-1865 (Oxford University Press, 2010), won the prestigious Fletcher Pratt award, was a Main Selection of the History Book Club, and is on the US Army Chief of Staff's reading list. In 2016, he was a Fellow of the Changing Character of War Programme at the University of Oxford's Pembroke College. He is currently writing a book on limited war for Cambridge University Press and is the Fulbright Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, Austria. This event was part-sponsored by the US-UK Fulbright Commission

'Limited War' is one of the terms making a frequent appearance in the strategic studies, international relations, and military history realms over the last 70 years. What does 'Limited War' mean? When do we know we are in one? What unique problems arise when waging one? What are the problems with ending them? And what should states do to secure a lasting peace? Distinguished Vienna Diplomatic Academy Fulbright Professor Donald Stoker discusses these issues and others by drawing upon what he has learned researching the subject for his forthcoming book from Cambridge University Press. Donald Stoker, PhD, was Professor of Strategy and Policy for the US Naval War College’s Monterey Program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, from 1999 until 2017. The author or editor of eight books, his Carl von Clausewitz: His Life and Work (Oxford University Press, 2014), is on the British Army professional reading list. His The Grand Design: Strategy and the US Civil War, 1861-1865 (Oxford University Press, 2010), won the prestigious Fletcher Pratt award, was a Main Selection of the History Book Club, and is on the US Army Chief of Staff’s reading list. In 2016, he was a Fellow of the Changing Character of War Programme at the University of Oxford’s Pembroke College. He is currently writing a book on limited war for Cambridge University Press and is the Fulbright Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, Austria. This event was part-sponsored by the US-UK Fulbright Commission

Michael Moorcock’s first five Elric of Melniboné stories appeared in the British magazine Science Fantasy in 1962 and were collected in hardcover the next year as The Stealer of Souls, followed by a U.S. paperback edition from Lancer Books in 1967. Savage and sardonic, the Elric stories must have seemed like a fantasy off-shoot of Great Britain’s “Angry Young Man” movement of that era. At first glance, Elric of Melniboné appears to be the very antithesis of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Cimmerian: a physically weak sorcerer, addicted to drugs, symbiotically linked to the malignant black sword Stormbringer, and the rightful emperor of a cruel and decadent pre-human civilization. Moorcock and Elric are often characterized as a negation or rejection of Howardian swords & sorcery, but that’s a drastic oversimplification of Moorcock’s relationship to pulp fantasy. Moorcock was precocious fantasy talent, creating fanzines as a schoolboy and becoming editor of the professional magazine Tarzan Adventures by the age 17 in 1957. Moorcock was a notable contributor to AMRA, a fanzine that was a hotbed of discussion about fantasy fiction and counted among its many notable correspondents Poul Anderson, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, and Roger Zelazny. As mentioned here, the term “swords and sorcery” was coined by Fritz Leiber in dialogue with Moorcock, although Moorcock has always preferred the term “epic fantasy”. Moorcock has at times minimized but never totally denied his appreciation for Howard, most likely hoping to let the Elric saga stand on its own two feet. He’s also held up his deep regard for the works of Leigh Brackett, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fritz Leiber, and Fletcher Pratt among others and was later a founding member of the Swordsmen and Sorceror's Guild of America, none of which indicates someone contemptuous or indifferent to fantasy fiction. Moorcock continued to write Elric stories in the late 1960s and the 1970s that were set prior to the events of Stormbringer. DAW Books republished the Elric Saga in 1977, arranging the stories by internal chronology, splitting the stories from The Stealer of Souls between The Weird of the White Wolf and The Bane of the Black Sword, the third and fifth books of Elric’s saga respectively. With Moorcock’s approval, Del Rey/Ballantine began publishing the “definitive” version of Elric’s saga in 2008, once again collecting the stories in publication order. Elric’s saga clearly had an impact on Gary Gygax as he specifically mentions Elric as a playable figure in the “Fantasy Supplement” to Chainmail (1971). The Law vs. Chaos alignment system in Chainmail and original Dungeons & Dragons (1974) may have originated with Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts and Three Lions, but there’s a distinct Moorcockian flavor in practice, although that would obviously vary from gaming group to gaming group. Rob Kuntz and James Ward wrote up Elric and the Melnibonéan mythos in the fourth Dungeons & Dragons supplement, Gods, Demi-Gods, & Heroes (1976). Four years later, Kuntz and Ward would detail the Melnibonéan mythos for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in Deities & Demigods (1980). Although TSR had permission from Moorcock to use Elric for D&D, their West Coast rivals Chaosium secured the official Elric license in 1981, leading TSR to remove the Melnibonéan section (and Cthulhu Mythos section) from the third printing onwards of Deities & Demigods. As a result, the first two printings of Deities & Demigods are now highly sought after collector’s items. In the meantime, Elric’s gaming presence has remained tightly bound up in the RuneQuest/Basic Role-Playing system for over 25 years, with the exception of Chaosium’s D20 System adaptation Dragon Lords of Melniboné (2001). There is currently no gaming license for any of Michael Moorcock’s works, so it remains to be seen if Elric will ever make an official reappearance at the gaming table….

He is quoted often, correctly and incorrectly, but few have actually read his works in full - and even fewer know much about the man himself, Major General Carl von Clausewitz, Kingdom of Prussia.Out guest for the full hour will be Donald Stoker, author of the new book, Clausewitz: His Life and Work. Stoker is a  Professor of Strategy and Policy for the U.S. Naval War College's program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.His previous book, The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War, won the distinguished Fletcher Pratt award for the best non-fiction Civil War book of 2010. Past winners include Bruce Catton and Shelby Foote.Episode first broadcast in DEC14.

Fletcher Pratt’s The Blue Star first saw print in the hardcover anthology Witches Three (Twayne Publishers, 1952), which also included Fritz Leiber’s Conjure Wife and James Blish’s “There Shall be No Darkness”. Pratt himself was the uncredited editor of the Witches Three, which ended up being the second and final volume in the short-lived “Twayne Triplets” series of themed hardcover fantastic fiction anthologies. Witches Three and The Blue Star in particular were positively reviewed at the time by The New York Times and The Washington Post among others. The Blue Star was not republished for the mass market however and soon slipped into obscurity, perhaps partly as a result of Pratt’s death in 1956. The Blue Star would likely remain forgotten to this day had Lin Carter not picked it to be the inaugural work in 1969 of the now seminal Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. The Ballantine Adult Fantasy series (BAFS) was launched largely to follow up on the massive success of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works for Ballantine Books. Carter was tasked with bringing “fantasy novels of adult calibre” to the mass market paperback format, from original works to reprinting many rare or unjustly obscure “fantastic romances of adventure and ideas”. Although Carter did call The Blue Star “thoughtfully conceived and brilliantly accomplished”, it’s still a bit of a mystery why he thought this rather dense and allusive book was a particularly good choice to launch the series. It is worth noting that one of Carter’s literary mentors and frequent collaborators was L. Sprague de Camp, who was also Fletcher Pratt’s most frequent fiction writing partner. The BAFS edition of The Blue Star features a striking and psychedelic wraparound cover by Ron Walotsky which has almost no bearing on the story contents. After the cancellation of the BAF series The Blue Star remained sufficiently popular to be reprinted twice more by Ballantine Books in 1975 and 1981, although now with a more mundane (if accurate to the text) cover by Darrell K. Sweet. It’s hard to map any direct textual influence from The Blue Star to Dungeons and Dragons, especially given the overall passivity of The Blue Star’s protagonists Lalette Asterhax and Rodvard Bergelin. The Blue Star’s magic system, societies, religions and mores are quite well-developed though and may have appealed to the worldbuilder in Gary Gygax. Gygax the history buff and wargamer may also have felt a special affinity for Fletcher Pratt, who was even more well known during his lifetime as a popular military and naval historian (and naval wargame creator!) than as a writer of fantastic fiction.

Special guest Gavin Norman (author of The Complete Vivimancer and Theorems & Thaumaturgy) joins us to discuss Jack Vance‘s The Dying Earth! Jack Vance originally wrote the loosely connected stories that comprise The Dying Earth while serving in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II. Vance’s fiction had started appearing in pulp magazines as early as 1945, and The Dying Earth marked his first book publication when it was released in digest-sized paperback in 1950 by Hillman Periodicals, best known as a comic book and magazine publisher. The Dying Earth appears not to have been particularly successful at first, as it was not reprinted even as Vance’s career went on an upswing in the late 1950s & early 1960s. Hillman ceased publishing in 1961 and Lancer Books snapped up The Dying Earth, reprinting it in paperback in 1962 with a cover by the ever-versatile Ed Emshwiller depicting the denouement of the story “Ulan Dhor”. The Dying Earth did well enough that Lancer kept it in print until they went bankrupt in 1973, by which time its reputation was such that it has remained in print to this day through a series of different publishers. No doubt the continued success of The Dying Earth led Jack Vance to revisit the setting starting in the mid 1960s. These new stories that would eventually be published as The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), followed by the post-Appendix N books Cugel’s Saga (1983) and Rhialto the Marvellous (1984). Gary Gygax wrote in issue 2 of The Excellent Prismatic Spray (2001) that he first became a fan of Jack Vance after reading The Big Planet (1957) in the pulps in the early 1950s and then was “absolutely enthralled...as no work of fantasy had done for a long time” with the publication of The Eyes of the Overworld in 1966. The Dying Earth further cemented Gygax’s love of the setting. When it came time to devise a magic system for Dungeons & Dragons, Gygax felt that a “Vancian” system of memorized spells that are expended when cast and that then must be re-learned before casting again was the best way to provide flavor and balance the magic-user against other classes. The Enchanter series by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt would provide the situational pre-conditions for spellcasting in D&D, but these spell components were often glossed-over, as Gygax laments as early as 1976 in issue 6 of The Strategic Review, the predecessor to Dragon magazine. Oddly, D&D’s publisher TSR appears never to have tried to license the Dying Earth setting even though Gary Gygax remained a huge fan of Jack Vance and actually had significant contact with him after Dungeons & Dragons took the world by storm. The first time gamers would get to officially adventure in the Dying Earth was with the publication of Pelgrane Press’ The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game in 2001. Goodman Games has since licensed the Dying Earth setting for its Dungeon Crawl Classics Roleplaying Game, with a target release date of late 2017.

The Compleat Enchanter by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt is a compilation of the first three novellas in the Harold Shea/Enchanter series, “The Roaring Trumpet” (1940), “The Mathematics of Magic” (1940), and “The Castle of Iron” (1941, revised 1950). The Compleat Enchanter was first published as a Nelson Doubleday/Science Fiction Book Club hardcover in 1975 before being released as a Del Rey paperback in 1976, featuring a charming Brothers Hildebrandt cover painting. The three adventures in this book take place in the worlds of Norse Mythology, Edmund Spenser’s epic poem The Faerie Queene, and Ludovico Ariosto’s epic poem Orlando Furioso. De Camp and Pratt would later team up for two more Harold Shea stories, “The Wall of Serpents” (1953), and “The Green Magician” (1954). These stories fall outside of the Appendix N Book Club reading list since they were not collected in paperback until 1979, but Gary Gygax and Tim Kask must have been big fans since “The Green Magician” made its first reappearance in print since 1960 in issues 15 and 16 of The Dragon (1978)! In any case, the Harold Shea series undoubtedly left its mark on Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, most obviously in the magical spell component requirements in The Players Handbook and the Against the Giants series of modules.

The Appendix N Podcast - Episode 42 - The Carnelian Cube by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt     Thanks to our sponsor: Easy Roller Dice   Murray Fletcher Pratt April 25, 1897 (Buffalo, NY) - June 10, 1956 (age 59)   Lyon Sprague de Camp November 27, 1907 - November 6, 2000 (age 92)   “The Carnelian Cube” (hardcover) Gnome Press, 1948 (paperback) Lancer Books, 1967   Guests: Louis Brenton twitter - @revlouisbrenton website - louisbrenton.com   Jeremiah McCoy websites - http://jeremiahmccoy.com & http://thebasicsofthegame.wordpress.com   Co-hosts: Jeffrey Wikstrom website - jeffwik.com twitter - @jeff_wik   Geoffrey Winn twitter - @geoffreydwinn   Geoffrey Winngdwinn@comcast.net        

The Appendix N Podcast - Episode 42 - The Carnelian Cube by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt     Thanks to our sponsor: Easy Roller Dice   Murray Fletcher Pratt April 25, 1897 (Buffalo, NY) - June 10, 1956 (age 59)   Lyon Sprague de Camp November 27, 1907 - November 6, 2000 (age 92)   “The Carnelian Cube” (hardcover) Gnome Press, 1948 (paperback) Lancer Books, 1967   Guests: Louis Brenton twitter - @revlouisbrenton website - louisbrenton.com   Jeremiah McCoy websites - http://jeremiahmccoy.com & http://thebasicsofthegame.wordpress.com   Co-hosts: Jeffrey Wikstrom website - jeffwik.com twitter - @jeff_wik   Geoffrey Winn twitter - @geoffreydwinn   Geoffrey Winngdwinn@comcast.net        

The Appendix N Podcast - Episode 42 - The Carnelian Cube by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt     Thanks to our sponsor: Easy Roller Dice   Murray Fletcher Pratt April 25, 1897 (Buffalo, NY) - June 10, 1956 (age 59)   Lyon Sprague de Camp November 27, 1907 - November 6, 2000 (age 92)   “The Carnelian Cube” (hardcover) Gnome Press, 1948 (paperback) Lancer Books, 1967   Guests: Louis Brenton twitter - @revlouisbrenton website - louisbrenton.com   Jeremiah McCoy websites - http://jeremiahmccoy.com & http://thebasicsofthegame.wordpress.com   Co-hosts: Jeffrey Wikstrom website - jeffwik.com twitter - @jeff_wik   Geoffrey Winn twitter - @geoffreydwinn   Geoffrey Winngdwinn@comcast.net        

The Appendix N Podcast - Episode 42 - The Carnelian Cube by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt     Thanks to our sponsor: Easy Roller Dice   Murray Fletcher Pratt April 25, 1897 (Buffalo, NY) - June 10, 1956 (age 59)   Lyon Sprague de Camp November 27, 1907 - November 6, 2000 (age 92)   “The Carnelian Cube” (hardcover) Gnome Press, 1948 (paperback) Lancer Books, 1967   Guests: Louis Brenton twitter - @revlouisbrenton website - louisbrenton.com   Jeremiah McCoy websites - http://jeremiahmccoy.com & http://thebasicsofthegame.wordpress.com   Co-hosts: Jeffrey Wikstrom website - jeffwik.com twitter - @jeff_wik   Geoffrey Winn twitter - @geoffreydwinn   Geoffrey Winngdwinn@comcast.net        

staticnosis, Haha Mart, Cabo Boing, Acid Fountain, Long Distance Poison, Nonhorse, Lisa, Orthodox, Olson and Billington, Sam Gas Can, Rangers, Skyjelly, Fletcher Pratt, Convivial Cannibal, eelxb, dschulez, [klsr], and Lester, Nowhere.

staticnosis, Haha Mart, Cabo Boing, Acid Fountain, Long Distance Poison, Nonhorse, Lisa, Orthodox, Olson and Billington, Sam Gas Can, Rangers, Skyjelly, Fletcher Pratt, Convivial Cannibal, eelxb, dschulez, [klsr], and Lester, Nowhere.

06:58 - Julia Bloop – "I Gotta Get Outta This Place" – Roland Throop 09:10 - Ylangylang – "How Thin is the Skin of the Soul" – Life Without Structure 14:15 -The Cyclist – "Bending Brass" – Bending Brass 17:18 - Luxury Elite – "Crystal" – World Class 19:25 - Ratkiller – "Sympathy (feat. Benzokai)" - Odor Orienting 23:15 - Fletcher Pratt – "Screwed up Raga" – Dub Sessions vol. 3 Talk Break 29:10 - Hillboggle – "Up the Country (excerpt)" – Up the Country with Hillboggle 32:10 - Shocking Pinks – "Lovehate (Abstract Mutation Remix)" – Wake up Children 36:35 - Al Lover – "Drug Attic" - Interference Patterns Talk Break 42:15 - Pressed And – "Blue Noun" - Imbue Up 44:12 - Luurel Varas – "Yodayoga" – Luurel Varas 47:30 - Pregnant – "Mount in Me" – John Raw 50:40 - Don Gero – "Wyvern" – Wizarding Talk Break 55:55 - Nate Henricks – "Sometimes I Die" – Neon for No One 59:21 - Matt “MV” Valentine & Sun Hoods – "Shoot Him Again, His Soul's Still Dancing" - Matt “MV” Valentine & Sun Hoods

Harold Shea sets off an another enchanted adventure, this time to the world of the Orlando Furioso. Will he be reunited with his lost love, or will bad poetry be his undoing?   www.nobleknight.com   Lyon Sprague de Camp November 27, 1907 - November 6, 2000 (age 92)   Murray Fletcher Pratt April 25, 1897 (Buffalo, NY) - June 10, 1956 (age 59)   “The Castle of Iron” Unknown, April 1941 (hardcover) Gnome Press, 1950 (paperback) Pyramid Books, 1962   My guest: Peter Foxhoven website - http://www.cromcountthedead.com   Co-hosts: Jeffrey Wikstrom website - jeffwik.com email - jeffwik@gmail.com   Geoffrey Winn twitter - @geoffreydwinn   Email us with your comments!   thetomeshow@gmail.com Thetomeshow.com Patreon.com/thetomeshow    

Harold Shea sets off an another enchanted adventure, this time to the world of the Orlando Furioso. Will he be reunited with his lost love, or will bad poetry be his undoing?   www.nobleknight.com   Lyon Sprague de Camp November 27, 1907 - November 6, 2000 (age 92)   Murray Fletcher Pratt April 25, 1897 (Buffalo, NY) - June 10, 1956 (age 59)   “The Castle of Iron” Unknown, April 1941 (hardcover) Gnome Press, 1950 (paperback) Pyramid Books, 1962   My guest: Peter Foxhoven website - http://www.cromcountthedead.com   Co-hosts: Jeffrey Wikstrom website - jeffwik.com email - jeffwik@gmail.com   Geoffrey Winn twitter - @geoffreydwinn   Email us with your comments!   thetomeshow@gmail.com Thetomeshow.com Patreon.com/thetomeshow    

Harold Shea sets off an another enchanted adventure, this time to the world of the Orlando Furioso. Will he be reunited with his lost love, or will bad poetry be his undoing?   www.nobleknight.com   Lyon Sprague de Camp November 27, 1907 - November 6, 2000 (age 92)   Murray Fletcher Pratt April 25, 1897 (Buffalo, NY) - June 10, 1956 (age 59)   “The Castle of Iron” Unknown, April 1941 (hardcover) Gnome Press, 1950 (paperback) Pyramid Books, 1962   My guest: Peter Foxhoven website - http://www.cromcountthedead.com   Co-hosts: Jeffrey Wikstrom website - jeffwik.com email - jeffwik@gmail.com   Geoffrey Winn twitter - @geoffreydwinn   Email us with your comments!   thetomeshow@gmail.com Thetomeshow.com Patreon.com/thetomeshow    

Harold Shea sets off an another enchanted adventure, this time to the world of the Orlando Furioso. Will he be reunited with his lost love, or will bad poetry be his undoing?   www.nobleknight.com   Lyon Sprague de Camp November 27, 1907 - November 6, 2000 (age 92)   Murray Fletcher Pratt April 25, 1897 (Buffalo, NY) - June 10, 1956 (age 59)   “The Castle of Iron” Unknown, April 1941 (hardcover) Gnome Press, 1950 (paperback) Pyramid Books, 1962   My guest: Peter Foxhoven website - http://www.cromcountthedead.com   Co-hosts: Jeffrey Wikstrom website - jeffwik.com email - jeffwik@gmail.com   Geoffrey Winn twitter - @geoffreydwinn   Email us with your comments!   thetomeshow@gmail.com Thetomeshow.com Patreon.com/thetomeshow    

Follow along with the amazing adventures of Harold Shea, spellcasting psychologist! Travel from the world of Norse mythology to the romantic fantasy of Spencer's Faerie Queene. How will Harold best the Blatant Beast? Find out, as you listen to our thrilling discussion!   www.nobleknight.com   Lyon Sprague de Camp November 27, 1907 - November 6, 2000 (age 92)   Murray Fletcher Pratt April 25, 1897 (Buffalo, NY) - June 10, 1956 (age 59) American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history Best known for his works on naval history and the American Civil War, and for collaborations on fiction with L. Sprague de Camp Attended Hobart College and wrote for various magazines “The Fletcher Pratt Naval War Game” — a set of rules for naval wargaming, involving tiny wooden ships, published prior to WW2   “The Roaring Trumpet” Unknown, May 1940   Harold Shea Reed Chalmers Thjalfi Utgardaloki Snogg “The plotline of the story is based on the myths of Thor's expedition to Jotunhem as told in the Gylfaginning section of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, and the Völva's prophecy regarding Ragnarok in the poem Völuspá, preserved in the Poetic Edda.”   “The Mathematics of Magic” Unknown, August 1940   Spencer's Faerie Queen Harold Shea Reed Chalmers Lady Britomart Lady Florimel Belphebe   Both stories first appeared in book form in The Incomplete Enchanter, 1941, Henry Holt and Company   My guest: Chris Constantin Dark Revelations the Roleplaying Game - http://drevrpg.com   Co-hosts: Jeffrey Wikstrom website - jeffwik.com email - jeffwik@gmail.com   Geoffrey Winn twitter - @geoffreydwinn   Email us with your comments!   http://www.thetomeshow.com thetomeshow@gmail.com      

Follow along with the amazing adventures of Harold Shea, spellcasting psychologist! Travel from the world of Norse mythology to the romantic fantasy of Spencer’s Faerie Queene. How will Harold best the Blatant Beast? Find out, as you listen to our thrilling discussion!   www.nobleknight.com   Lyon Sprague de Camp November 27, 1907 - November 6, 2000 (age 92)   Murray Fletcher Pratt April 25, 1897 (Buffalo, NY) - June 10, 1956 (age 59) American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history Best known for his works on naval history and the American Civil War, and for collaborations on fiction with L. Sprague de Camp Attended Hobart College and wrote for various magazines “The Fletcher Pratt Naval War Game” — a set of rules for naval wargaming, involving tiny wooden ships, published prior to WW2   “The Roaring Trumpet” Unknown, May 1940   Harold Shea Reed Chalmers Thjalfi Utgardaloki Snogg “The plotline of the story is based on the myths of Thor's expedition to Jotunhem as told in the Gylfaginning section of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, and the Völva's prophecy regarding Ragnarok in the poem Völuspá, preserved in the Poetic Edda.”   “The Mathematics of Magic” Unknown, August 1940   Spencer’s Faerie Queen Harold Shea Reed Chalmers Lady Britomart Lady Florimel Belphebe   Both stories first appeared in book form in The Incomplete Enchanter, 1941, Henry Holt and Company   My guest: Chris Constantin Dark Revelations the Roleplaying Game - http://drevrpg.com   Co-hosts: Jeffrey Wikstrom website - jeffwik.com email - jeffwik@gmail.com   Geoffrey Winn twitter - @geoffreydwinn   Email us with your comments!   http://www.thetomeshow.com thetomeshow@gmail.com      

Follow along with the amazing adventures of Harold Shea, spellcasting psychologist! Travel from the world of Norse mythology to the romantic fantasy of Spencer’s Faerie Queene. How will Harold best the Blatant Beast? Find out, as you listen to our thrilling discussion!   www.nobleknight.com   Lyon Sprague de Camp November 27, 1907 - November 6, 2000 (age 92)   Murray Fletcher Pratt April 25, 1897 (Buffalo, NY) - June 10, 1956 (age 59) American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history Best known for his works on naval history and the American Civil War, and for collaborations on fiction with L. Sprague de Camp Attended Hobart College and wrote for various magazines “The Fletcher Pratt Naval War Game” — a set of rules for naval wargaming, involving tiny wooden ships, published prior to WW2   “The Roaring Trumpet” Unknown, May 1940   Harold Shea Reed Chalmers Thjalfi Utgardaloki Snogg “The plotline of the story is based on the myths of Thor's expedition to Jotunhem as told in the Gylfaginning section of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, and the Völva's prophecy regarding Ragnarok in the poem Völuspá, preserved in the Poetic Edda.”   “The Mathematics of Magic” Unknown, August 1940   Spencer’s Faerie Queen Harold Shea Reed Chalmers Lady Britomart Lady Florimel Belphebe   Both stories first appeared in book form in The Incomplete Enchanter, 1941, Henry Holt and Company   My guest: Chris Constantin Dark Revelations the Roleplaying Game - http://drevrpg.com   Co-hosts: Jeffrey Wikstrom website - jeffwik.com email - jeffwik@gmail.com   Geoffrey Winn twitter - @geoffreydwinn   Email us with your comments!   http://www.thetomeshow.com thetomeshow@gmail.com      

Follow along with the amazing adventures of Harold Shea, spellcasting psychologist! Travel from the world of Norse mythology to the romantic fantasy of Spencer’s Faerie Queene. How will Harold best the Blatant Beast? Find out, as you listen to our thrilling discussion!   www.nobleknight.com   Lyon Sprague de Camp November 27, 1907 - November 6, 2000 (age 92)   Murray Fletcher Pratt April 25, 1897 (Buffalo, NY) - June 10, 1956 (age 59) American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history Best known for his works on naval history and the American Civil War, and for collaborations on fiction with L. Sprague de Camp Attended Hobart College and wrote for various magazines “The Fletcher Pratt Naval War Game” — a set of rules for naval wargaming, involving tiny wooden ships, published prior to WW2   “The Roaring Trumpet” Unknown, May 1940   Harold Shea Reed Chalmers Thjalfi Utgardaloki Snogg “The plotline of the story is based on the myths of Thor's expedition to Jotunhem as told in the Gylfaginning section of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, and the Völva's prophecy regarding Ragnarok in the poem Völuspá, preserved in the Poetic Edda.”   “The Mathematics of Magic” Unknown, August 1940   Spencer’s Faerie Queen Harold Shea Reed Chalmers Lady Britomart Lady Florimel Belphebe   Both stories first appeared in book form in The Incomplete Enchanter, 1941, Henry Holt and Company   My guest: Chris Constantin Dark Revelations the Roleplaying Game - http://drevrpg.com   Co-hosts: Jeffrey Wikstrom website - jeffwik.com email - jeffwik@gmail.com   Geoffrey Winn twitter - @geoffreydwinn   Email us with your comments!   http://www.thetomeshow.com thetomeshow@gmail.com      

Kevin and Steve get their nerd on and ask, “Of all the fantasy/sci-fi novel settings you’ve read about, where would you want to live?” Part I of this episode is a boy’s club (Part II will feature women authors), though they go over some classics, from Tolkien’s Middle Earth, to Lewis’ Narnia, Zelazny’s Amber, Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain, Moorcock’s multiverse, and they venture into more obscure works by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, among others. Scintillating!

He is quoted often, correctly and incorrectly, but few have actually read his works in full - and even fewer know much about the man himself, Major General Carl von Clausewitz, Kingdom of Prussia.Out guest for the full hour will be Donald Stoker, author of the new book, Clausewitz: His Life and Work. Stoker is a  Professor of Strategy and Policy for the U.S. Naval War College's program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.His previous book, The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War, won the distinguished Fletcher Pratt award for the best non-fiction Civil War book of 2010. Past winners include Bruce Catton and Shelby Foote.

New Age Hillbilly, Pak, Dsic, Fletcher Pratt, Jason E. Anderson, Matt Carlson, Plankton Wat, Lake Mary, Jeremy Kelly, Kosmonaut, Emuul, Dinner Music, The Marshmallow Staircase, and Parashi

New Age Hillbilly, Pak, Dsic, Fletcher Pratt, Jason E. Anderson, Matt Carlson, Plankton Wat, Lake Mary, Jeremy Kelly, Kosmonaut, Emuul, Dinner Music, The Marshmallow Staircase, and Parashi