‘Silver Bridge in a Broken Sky’
Dreams of Nineveh by Robert E. Howard
© 2018 James LaFond
APR/8/18
Reading from a Word from the Outer Dark, pages 61-63
Dreams of Nineveh is my favorite Robert E. Howard poem, focusing as it does on one of my favorite ancient empires, the Assyrian, which rose twice, once from dust and once from ruin, as a hero empire, led by absolute hero kings who have much in common with Howard’s Kull and Conan, overwrought dynamos at the helms of overextended polities...
by the wine dark sea
winter of a fighting life
beasts of aryas
honor among men
the greatest boxer
uncle satan
hate
fate
blue eyed daughter of zeus
song of the secret gardener
logic of steel
on the overton railroad
wife—
dark, distant futures
sorcerer!
the greatest lie ever sold
the year the world took the z-pill
the gods of boxing
america the brutal
barbarism versus civilization
when you're food
broken dance
the first boxers
thriving in bad places
menthol rampage
advent america
songs of aryas
taboo you
on combat
time & cosmos
logic of force
predation
z-pill forever
under the god of things
night city
into leviathan’s maw
the sunset saga complete
fiction anthology one
the lesser angels of our nature
fanatic
cracker-boy
all-power-fighting
sons of aryas
the fighting edge
the combat space
your trojan whorse
masculine axis
son of a lesser god
ranger?
let the world fend for itself
book of nightmares
within leviathan’s craw
orphan nation
triumph
solo boxing