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sKeeping Christianity in Christian Fantasy
Saturday , 16, September 2017 Before the Big Three 14 CommentsThe other day I was leafing through my Treasury of Fantasy (I love me some shortish SFF) and pondering what to read next. Phantastes, perhaps, or the King of Elfland’s Daughter? I was hungering for something a bit leaner, and given that it had been quite some time since I had partaken of anything Arthurian, I decided […]
25 years after the end of the Cold War and the publication of the ninth volume, Dr. Pournelle has revived his classic science fiction series with Castalia House. THERE WILL BE WAR Volume X continues the tradition of combining top-notch military science fiction with first-rate real-world analysis by military experts. The Cold War may have […]
SHORT FICTION: Reptilian Wanderer by Dominika Lein
Friday , 15, September 2017 Pulp Revolution, Short Fiction 2 CommentsImagine if you will, a boy that kept a box of his most favorite things under his bed. It could include all kinds of things: a huge rhinoceros beetle and a perfect lunar moth, wheat pennies and buffalo nickles, a Skylab commemorative stamp, a few worn out copies of some really old issues of Justice […]
JUST RELEASED: Seven Fold Sword: Swordbearer
Friday , 15, September 2017 Just Released Leave a commentReturn to the world of the Frostborn series with the second book of Jonathan Moeller’s The Seven Fold Sword. The quest of the Seven Swords kills anyone foolish enough to seek its secret. Ridmark Arban is the Shield Knight, but he is the only Swordbearer in the realm of Owyllain. That means he is the […]
Short Reviews – Ali Baba’s Cave, by “I.D.B.”
Friday , 15, September 2017 Uncategorized Leave a commentAli Baba’s Cave by “I.D.B.”(Illicit Diamond Buyer) appeared in the June 1944 issue of The Wide World. Our next story in this issue of The Wide World takes us to South Africa during the diamond boom in 1929. The government is wanting to clamp down on illegal prospecting and has been buying up and securing […]
THROWBACK SF THURSDAY: Leonard Carpenter’s Conan Pastiches
Thursday , 14, September 2017 Book Review 13 CommentsToday we close the books on The Summer of Conan. You can find all of my Conan posts here. Over the course of three months, I read every Conan story Robert E. Howard wrote, watched all three Conan movies, and read twelve Conan pastiches. I did not, unfortunately, get to any of the Conan comics. […]
We might argue about whether Donald A Wollheim is the most significant figure in 20th Century science fiction[1] but there can be little doubt about the influence he had on the development of modern science fiction and fantasy[2] is both broad and deep. He leapt onto the stage early as an ardent fan, and immediately […]
When The Valdemar Legacy showed up on Amazon Prime, I had give it a go. With “Based on the Work of H. P. Lovecraft” emblazoned across the top of the movie poster, I simply had to know. How much of Lovecraft’s approach to fantasy managed to get incorporated into this thing…? The answer is… not […]
I’ve done a lot of talking about numbers and satisfying mechanics and accuracy and all manner of game components in this space, but almost nothing about the fluff. Does it matter whether a Wargame is set in the grim darkness of the far future or the chivalric past, whether a world of magic or hard […]
Jerry Pournelle Week continues with Glenn Reynolds’s tribute to Jerry Pournelle. Jerry Pournelle died on Friday, peacefully in his sleep. With his death, America lost an important figure… But Pournelle didn’t just write fiction. His 1970 book with Stefan Possony, The Strategy of Technology, outlined a strategy for winning the Cold War (with among other things, an […]
Waiting for our Merchant Captain to show up, we realize I need to have a character for the other game in the campaign. (The referee offered to let me run somebody else’s stuff, but no. I wanna play what the dice give me.) I get this great three term Army character: A75966 (3 Terms Army) Rifle-2, […]