Gladiatorial combat is a particular form of forced combat and invites parallels between the characters and the environment depicted and ancient Rome.

One would have to know as much about Moorcock's early life as Moorcock does to distinguish the mundane from the dance of the storyable.

And your body still was feeling new / to all those wooden-lizard / dice plays

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents poetry from the February issues.