July 2008
On the Bookshelf: Still reading Black Gate #9, and magazines,
magazines, magazines.
Site News: Nuttin' much, I expect.
On the Bookshelf: Still reading Black Gate #9, and magazines,
magazines, magazines.
Site News: Nuttin' much, I expect.
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| Welcome to the website of speculative fiction author SC Bryce. |
| "A careful crafter with a vivid imagination. Bryce seamlessly blends old and new concepts to create something original, and knows how to deliver a good action tale..." Howard Andrew Jones, Managing Editor of Black Gate. |
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"Vying for a position as the best story of the group with [Harold] Lamb's [classic reprint] offering is S. C. Bryce's "The Dragon's Scale." This first of a two-part story is about another recurring character, Dermanassian, a desert elf of considerable brains, weapon skill, and magic. Charged by a god to recover a scale from the white dragon, Dermanassian uses stealth to observe and enter the dragon's lair, eventually being discovered. Dragon and elf strike up both conversation and bargain, with the inevitable combat ensuing. The dialog is quick and clever, the action more so. Even though this story could be considered well ended here, I relish the next issue of Flashing Swords to see part two." Robert J. Santa, Firebrand Fiction Review, on The Dragon's Scale, Rise of a Necromancer Part 1. |
| "Dermanassian, the desert elf, has proven to be one of the most popular characters featured at Flashing Swords, and that shouldn't come as a surprise, for S.C. Bryce is a careful crafter with a vivid imagination. Bryce seamlessly blends old and new concepts to create something original, and knows how to deliver a good action tale..." Howard Andrew Jones, managing editor of Black Gate, editor in chief, SwordandSorcery.org, and former editor of Flashing Swords. |
| "A wonderful, dream-like story — glad I picked it to read first in the premiere issue. I made that call based on A) the intriguing title, and B) experience reading Bryce’s stuff. It was a good decision... '127 Fears' rocks." Steve Goble, Swords Against Boredom, editor of Carnivah House, on 127 Fears. |
| "S.C. Bryce is a real talent. Stirring characters, sharp dialogue, fascinating scenery -- Bryce has them all, and a unique spin on fantasy tropes. Don't walk into a Bryce story expecting the ordinary, but expect a rousing adventure every time..." Howard Andrew Jones, Managing Editor Black Gate, and Editor in Chief of www.SwordandSorcery.org, and former editor of Flashing Swords on The Demon War. |
| "It's a tale full of wonder and strangeness, charm and mystery, and absolutely fascinating..." Richard K. Lyon, co-author of novels Demon in the Mirror, The Eyes of Sarsis, The Web of the Spider, and Rails Across the Galaxy and author of numerous short stories, on The Dawn Tree. |
| "This story was so vividly imaginative, so smoothly written and so engrossing that it was over before I knew it..." Bruce Durham, award-winning speculative fiction author and Contributing Editor to www.SwordandSorcery.org, on The Demon War. |
| "Enough fast-paced, high energy adventure for the most action-starved reader... exotic and well-detailed..." Tangent Short Fiction Review, on The Demon War. |
