Sean CW Korsgaard
@scwkorsgaard.bsky.social
Award-winning freelance reporter, author, US Army veteran and constant adventurer, seeking great stories and an audience to hear them.
Editor, Battleborn Magazine.
Reviewer, Analog SF&F.
Editor, Battleborn Magazine.
Reviewer, Analog SF&F.
Ladies, gentlemen, lovers of sword-and-sorcery one and all:
Uncork the mead - we cracked 10k, and with that, BATTLEBORN #2 will drop in June 2026!
We cannot wait to bring blood-and-thunder back to the Frontlines of Fantasy with each and every one of you!
Uncork the mead - we cracked 10k, and with that, BATTLEBORN #2 will drop in June 2026!
We cannot wait to bring blood-and-thunder back to the Frontlines of Fantasy with each and every one of you!
October 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Ladies, gentlemen, lovers of sword-and-sorcery one and all:
Uncork the mead - we cracked 10k, and with that, BATTLEBORN #2 will drop in June 2026!
We cannot wait to bring blood-and-thunder back to the Frontlines of Fantasy with each and every one of you!
Uncork the mead - we cracked 10k, and with that, BATTLEBORN #2 will drop in June 2026!
We cannot wait to bring blood-and-thunder back to the Frontlines of Fantasy with each and every one of you!
BATTLEBORN just broke 9k - and with our next stretch goal firmly in sight, what say we sweeten the pot?
ALL backers of BATTLEBORN will get digital copies of the first 4 issues of ANVIL - and a few other goodies, too - to help you get a taste for our team's work!
www.indiegogo.com/projects/bat...
ALL backers of BATTLEBORN will get digital copies of the first 4 issues of ANVIL - and a few other goodies, too - to help you get a taste for our team's work!
www.indiegogo.com/projects/bat...
September 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
BATTLEBORN just broke 9k - and with our next stretch goal firmly in sight, what say we sweeten the pot?
ALL backers of BATTLEBORN will get digital copies of the first 4 issues of ANVIL - and a few other goodies, too - to help you get a taste for our team's work!
www.indiegogo.com/projects/bat...
ALL backers of BATTLEBORN will get digital copies of the first 4 issues of ANVIL - and a few other goodies, too - to help you get a taste for our team's work!
www.indiegogo.com/projects/bat...
Raise your glasses and your blades to David Drake, born this day 80 years ago. Vietnam veteran, military scifi pioneer, and among the finest authors and champions of sword-and-sorcery that the genre has ever known.
Does anybody here have a favorite David Drake story?
Does anybody here have a favorite David Drake story?
September 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Raise your glasses and your blades to David Drake, born this day 80 years ago. Vietnam veteran, military scifi pioneer, and among the finest authors and champions of sword-and-sorcery that the genre has ever known.
Does anybody here have a favorite David Drake story?
Does anybody here have a favorite David Drake story?
And it's excellent! I'd love more like it!
There's just something so evocative about underwater scifi.
Plus, we don't get nearly enough scifi with sharks on the cover.
There's just something so evocative about underwater scifi.
Plus, we don't get nearly enough scifi with sharks on the cover.
September 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
And it's excellent! I'd love more like it!
There's just something so evocative about underwater scifi.
Plus, we don't get nearly enough scifi with sharks on the cover.
There's just something so evocative about underwater scifi.
Plus, we don't get nearly enough scifi with sharks on the cover.
Joe Haldeman said he had written the rough draft of a Conan novel while deployed to Vietnam, whose manuscript ended as "casualties of a fire fight."
If you excuse me, I must know lament that we could have had sword-and-sorcery from Joe Haldeman, joining David Drake as a MilSF titan that did both.
If you excuse me, I must know lament that we could have had sword-and-sorcery from Joe Haldeman, joining David Drake as a MilSF titan that did both.
September 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Joe Haldeman said he had written the rough draft of a Conan novel while deployed to Vietnam, whose manuscript ended as "casualties of a fire fight."
If you excuse me, I must know lament that we could have had sword-and-sorcery from Joe Haldeman, joining David Drake as a MilSF titan that did both.
If you excuse me, I must know lament that we could have had sword-and-sorcery from Joe Haldeman, joining David Drake as a MilSF titan that did both.
Lets take a moment to remember Tanith Lee today, on what would have been her 78th birthday.
Lee straddled horror, fantasy, romance and science fiction in her sword-and-sorcery in a way few authors did.
Do any of you have a favorite story by Tanith Lee?
Lee straddled horror, fantasy, romance and science fiction in her sword-and-sorcery in a way few authors did.
Do any of you have a favorite story by Tanith Lee?
September 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Lets take a moment to remember Tanith Lee today, on what would have been her 78th birthday.
Lee straddled horror, fantasy, romance and science fiction in her sword-and-sorcery in a way few authors did.
Do any of you have a favorite story by Tanith Lee?
Lee straddled horror, fantasy, romance and science fiction in her sword-and-sorcery in a way few authors did.
Do any of you have a favorite story by Tanith Lee?
Two weeks left in our crowdfunder for Battlenborn Magazine, many goals lie ahead! Good odds for any warrior!
Remember, all of our backers get a vote on which cover graces the cover of Battleborn #1 - but ONLY our backers! We're mercenaries, not a democracy!
Remember, all of our backers get a vote on which cover graces the cover of Battleborn #1 - but ONLY our backers! We're mercenaries, not a democracy!
September 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Two weeks left in our crowdfunder for Battlenborn Magazine, many goals lie ahead! Good odds for any warrior!
Remember, all of our backers get a vote on which cover graces the cover of Battleborn #1 - but ONLY our backers! We're mercenaries, not a democracy!
Remember, all of our backers get a vote on which cover graces the cover of Battleborn #1 - but ONLY our backers! We're mercenaries, not a democracy!
Happy 133nd birthday to another of the founding fathers of fantasy, Harold Lamb, whose historical adventure fiction following cossacks and crusaders influenced authors from Robert E. Howard to Howard Andrew Jones!
Who among you has ridden the steppe with Lamb?
Who among you has ridden the steppe with Lamb?
September 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Happy 133nd birthday to another of the founding fathers of fantasy, Harold Lamb, whose historical adventure fiction following cossacks and crusaders influenced authors from Robert E. Howard to Howard Andrew Jones!
Who among you has ridden the steppe with Lamb?
Who among you has ridden the steppe with Lamb?
Class dismissed.
Teaching at Gencon and Dragoncon has been a thrill, and I truly loved it.
Plus, my dear grandma and aunties (teachers/professors one and all) are thrilled I'm doing "proper work".
There is something magic about teaching.
May I get more chances to feel that magic in the future.
Teaching at Gencon and Dragoncon has been a thrill, and I truly loved it.
Plus, my dear grandma and aunties (teachers/professors one and all) are thrilled I'm doing "proper work".
There is something magic about teaching.
May I get more chances to feel that magic in the future.
September 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Class dismissed.
Teaching at Gencon and Dragoncon has been a thrill, and I truly loved it.
Plus, my dear grandma and aunties (teachers/professors one and all) are thrilled I'm doing "proper work".
There is something magic about teaching.
May I get more chances to feel that magic in the future.
Teaching at Gencon and Dragoncon has been a thrill, and I truly loved it.
Plus, my dear grandma and aunties (teachers/professors one and all) are thrilled I'm doing "proper work".
There is something magic about teaching.
May I get more chances to feel that magic in the future.
Mary Robinette Kowal and Matt Dinniman bask in the glow of victory.
See you guys at the Dragon Awards 2026.
See you guys at the Dragon Awards 2026.
August 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Mary Robinette Kowal and Matt Dinniman bask in the glow of victory.
See you guys at the Dragon Awards 2026.
See you guys at the Dragon Awards 2026.
Mary Robinette Kowal and Matt Dinniman bask in the glow of victory.
See you guys at the Dragon Awards 2026.
See you guys at the Dragon Awards 2026.
August 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Mary Robinette Kowal and Matt Dinniman bask in the glow of victory.
See you guys at the Dragon Awards 2026.
See you guys at the Dragon Awards 2026.
The Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel goes to The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal
August 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel goes to The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Dragon Award for Best Illustrative Book Cover goes to Michael Whelan for his cover for Wind and Truth.
August 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Dragon Award for Best Illustrative Book Cover goes to Michael Whelan for his cover for Wind and Truth.
The Dragon Award for Best Comic Book / Graphic Novel is Daredevil: Cold Day In Hell by Charles Soule, Steve McNiven!
August 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The Dragon Award for Best Comic Book / Graphic Novel is Daredevil: Cold Day In Hell by Charles Soule, Steve McNiven!
The Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Movie is Deadpool & Wolverine by Shawn Levy
August 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Movie is Deadpool & Wolverine by Shawn Levy
The 2025 Eugie Foster Memorial Award goes to "Marginalia" by Mary Robinette Kowal.
August 31, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The 2025 Eugie Foster Memorial Award goes to "Marginalia" by Mary Robinette Kowal.
The 2025 Julie Award goes to Dave Goelz!
August 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The 2025 Julie Award goes to Dave Goelz!
I will be reporting live from the Dragon Awards as they happen, once again.
For now, enjoying Bill Fawcett recounting the origins of the Dragoncon Carpet cultists to Scott Lynch and Matt Dinniman.
For now, enjoying Bill Fawcett recounting the origins of the Dragoncon Carpet cultists to Scott Lynch and Matt Dinniman.
August 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I will be reporting live from the Dragon Awards as they happen, once again.
For now, enjoying Bill Fawcett recounting the origins of the Dragoncon Carpet cultists to Scott Lynch and Matt Dinniman.
For now, enjoying Bill Fawcett recounting the origins of the Dragoncon Carpet cultists to Scott Lynch and Matt Dinniman.
Teaching my first ever class at Dragoncon.
August 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Teaching my first ever class at Dragoncon.
Watching @jimzub.bsky.social rock the mic talking Conan the Barbarian at #DragonCon! Video to come!
August 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Watching @jimzub.bsky.social rock the mic talking Conan the Barbarian at #DragonCon! Video to come!
Born on this day 109 years ago, Jack Vance changed fantasy and sword-and-sorcery forever with the Dying Earth, a place where foul magics and often fouler men fought beneath the final light of the sun.
Unforgettable, and Vance changes the way you look at magic forever.
Unforgettable, and Vance changes the way you look at magic forever.
August 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Born on this day 109 years ago, Jack Vance changed fantasy and sword-and-sorcery forever with the Dying Earth, a place where foul magics and often fouler men fought beneath the final light of the sun.
Unforgettable, and Vance changes the way you look at magic forever.
Unforgettable, and Vance changes the way you look at magic forever.
Happy 73rd Birthday to one of the living grandmasters of sword-and-sorcery, Darrell Schweitzer!
His Sir Julian stories - all collected in WE ARE ALL LEGENDS - should be on the shelves of any fan of the genre.
His Sir Julian stories - all collected in WE ARE ALL LEGENDS - should be on the shelves of any fan of the genre.
August 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Happy 73rd Birthday to one of the living grandmasters of sword-and-sorcery, Darrell Schweitzer!
His Sir Julian stories - all collected in WE ARE ALL LEGENDS - should be on the shelves of any fan of the genre.
His Sir Julian stories - all collected in WE ARE ALL LEGENDS - should be on the shelves of any fan of the genre.
Just kick my grandma too, why don't ya?
August 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Just kick my grandma too, why don't ya?
The Auto 9 handcannon from Robocop, one of the coolest guns in all of science fiction.
August 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The Auto 9 handcannon from Robocop, one of the coolest guns in all of science fiction.
Look, I try not to espouse radical opinions on social media. that said...
Whatever failed private equity lackwit is doing this to Cracker Barrel needs to be drawn-and-quartered before they try and "improve" anything else.
Whatever failed private equity lackwit is doing this to Cracker Barrel needs to be drawn-and-quartered before they try and "improve" anything else.
August 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Look, I try not to espouse radical opinions on social media. that said...
Whatever failed private equity lackwit is doing this to Cracker Barrel needs to be drawn-and-quartered before they try and "improve" anything else.
Whatever failed private equity lackwit is doing this to Cracker Barrel needs to be drawn-and-quartered before they try and "improve" anything else.