Member: MountZionRyan

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Favorite librariesBetty Anne Jolly Norris Community Library

About meBorn in the ice fields of inner Antarctica, Ryan (as his wife, momma, and the IRS call him) was raised on adventure. By the time he was was twelve he was learning the ways of the sea. After graduating High School, he sailed his square-rigged barque "Hrothgar" on a continuous circumnavigation for six years. When not on board Hrothgar, Ryan could be found trakking across the Rub al Khali, the Amazon basin, or Roman ruins in Northern Africa.

Or so he would like you to believe. Ryan is a keyboard jockey in a Government office by day and the editor of Mount Zion Speculative Fiction Review by night. He loves armchair adventuring, nautical fiction and history, Antarctica, Role-playing Games, and many divers types of music.

About my libraryI have several spheres of interest. Let's call the first Nautical Interest comprising everything from nautical fiction to oceanography. I love the sea and only the accidental nature of life has kept me closer to the mountains than the shore. The second let's call Dark Ages which comprises Vikings, Anglo-Saxon and Sub-roman Britain. The third is Feudal Japan, obviously more narrowly defined that the previous categories. In fiction I like Lovecraft and his descendants; Tolkien and not his imitators; Howard and his imitators; and that fiction which fits into the previous categories.

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Member sinceOct 13, 2006