Tales of the Reaching Moon was a British fanzine dedicated to the fantasy world of Glorantha and producing material for fantasy role-playing games based there. The editor, David Hall, published 20 issues from 1989 to 2002 (2/yr until 1994, then annually). The magazine was originally published with a monochrome cover but had a full colour cover from issue 12 onwards. Most of the later issues had a central theme fleshed out through a variety of related articles by different authors. A list of issues with themes is given below:
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #1 (1989)
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #2 (1989)
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #3 (1990)
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #4 (1990) Australian Special!
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #5 (1991) Humakti Special!
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #6 (1991)
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #7 (1992) Hero Quest Special!
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #8 (1992) The Chaos Feature
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #9 (1993)
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #10 (1993) Sea Special
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #11 (1994) Pamaltela: Great Southern Land
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #12 (1994) Bumper Colour Special!
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #13 (1995) Go West!
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #14 (1996) Praxian Special
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #15 (1996) Prax Part Deux
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #16 (1997) Lunar Special
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #17 (1998) Catch-up Special
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #18 (1999) Sartar Special
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #19 (2000) Upland Marsh Special
- Tales of the Reaching Moon #20 (2002) Farewell Issue!
The fanzine printed gaming material for a variety of rule-systems, including RuneQuest and Pendragon Pass. In addition to this it also had fiction, news and a Rumours section based on the format of the RuneQuest supplements.
Famous quotes containing the words tales of, tales, reaching and/or moon:
“A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them.
Still, you can’t listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Shall we rest us here,
And by relating tales of others’ griefs,
See if ‘twill teach us to forget our own?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)
“For now the moon with friendless light carouses
On hill and housetop, street and marketplace,
Men will plunge, mile after mile of men,
To crush this lucent madness of the face....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)