Daniel Stride

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Daniel Stride (also known as Dan) is a long-time fantasy reader and all-round geek, having fallen in love with The Lord of the Rings aged nine (he still thinks The Silmarillion is the best book ever written).

He spent far too long at University, where he accumulated multiple degrees in-between lobbying politicians and fighting for doomed causes. But he wasn’t really a career student – honest – he even had a respectable nine years working for the local newspaper. And now he’s pursuing a legal career…

Apart from reading, writing, and teaching himself foreign languages, he’s a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, with a taste for reconstructing medieval skaldic verse. His only true weakness is chocolate. And cats. But not chocolate ca
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2025 Reading List: November (+ Writing Update)

Completed reads for November:

Skull-Face, by Robert E. HowardThe Sword of the Lictor, by Gene WolfeThe Lay of VölundThe Lament of DeorThe Citadel of the Autarch, by Gene Wolfe

The Lay of Völund is Bellows’ translation.

November was fairly active on the writing front:

Old Phuul edits done, and sent back to the publisher.Finished a 4,500-word fae-meets-urban fantasy, called The Hunting of the Fomorian. Read more of this blog post »
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Completed reads for November:Skull-Face, by Robert E. HowardThe Sword of the Lictor, by Gene WolfeThe Lay of VölundThe Lament of DeorThe Citadel of th Read more of this blog post »
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