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sShort Reviews – The Silver Plague, by Albert de Pina
Friday , 27, October 2017 Uncategorized 2 CommentsThe Silver Plague by Albert de Pina was the featured cover story of the Spring 1945 issue of Planet Stories. It can be read here at Archive.org. I’ve got to admit that I’m a little bit disappointed with The Silver Plague. Sharing the cover with Brackett as well as glowing accolades in subsequent issues’ letters […]
THROWBACK SF THURSDAY: The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard, Part 3
Thursday , 26, October 2017 Book Review 10 CommentsMy blood ran fire when the deed was done; Now it runs colder than the moon that shone On shattered fields where dead men lay in heaps Who could not hear a ravished daughter’s moan. With All Hallows’ Eve right around the corner, my coverage of The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard draws to […]
ALT-HERO: Rolling the Dice
Thursday , 26, October 2017 Comics, News, Promotions, Publications Leave a commentAlthough Rebel, Captain Europa, and Dynamique have been the stars of the Freestartr campaign, we have a number of other superheroes who have not yet been introduced. One of the most enigmatic is Shade of the Global Justice Initiative, whose identity is unknown to everyone, including Captain Europa, as are the full extent of his […]
October 2017 Science Fiction New Release Roundup
Thursday , 26, October 2017 Uncategorized Leave a commentAn elite Legion Dark Ops team must brave the chaos of an interplanetary firefight to deprive the attacking Black Fleet of its prize. Far from the reach of their god, a fleet of space explorers prepares their last stand against an armada of their devils. An undercover spy rescues a scientist from the wreckage of […]
I didn’t have a particular adventure module in mind when I sat down to run first edition Gamma World. I didn’t have a developed campaign setting. I didn’t really have anything in mind other than that I wanted to see what happened when you took the game as is and then ran it according to […]
After several sessions, we have now played through the careers of two American submarine captains. We both started in April 1942 and then went all the way to the end of World War 2. It never ceases to surprise me, but this game is completely different from the one covering the German U-boats. They fight […]
From renowned artist Gregory Manchess comes a lavishly painted novel about the son of a famed polar explorer searching for his stranded father, and a lost city buried under snow in an alternate future. When it started to snow, it didn’t stop for 1,500 years. The Pole Shift that ancient climatologists talked about finally came, […]
SUPERVERSIVE: The Missed Opportunity of “Jessica Jones”
Tuesday , 24, October 2017 Superversive 7 CommentsEven in my critiques of “Jessica Jones” I always make sure to point out that the conflict driving the plot is an excellent one, a terrific cat and mouse thriller: Jessica Jones needs to find a way to catch Kilgrave and prove that he can control people with the sound of his voice, except that […]
First Edition Gamma World Session Four: The Battle of Yamtown
Tuesday , 24, October 2017 Tabletop Games 4 CommentsThis session opened up with the gang following up on an old plot hook that’s been mouldering around since the very first session: they wanted to go check up on the Brutorz-riding Commanche tribe to the northwest. The party was tempted to go check out the Cyclops people I mentioned that lived up in the […]
ALT-HERO: RPGs, A New Site, and Our New Artist
Tuesday , 24, October 2017 Comics, News, Promotions, Publications Leave a commentToday’s Alt★Hero announcement comes from writer and Castalia House editor Vox Day: “Thanks to the enthusiasm of the Alt★Hero backers, we’ve just passed Stretch Goal #9 at 540 percent of the original objective, thereby committing us to providing a site dedicated to the series. This is a very positive sign as we enter the final stretch. There […]
Planetary: A Superhero Comic That Hates Heroes. And Heroism. And Also Probably You.
Monday , 23, October 2017 Comics 24 CommentsI cannot tell you how much I love the concept of Planetary (a comic series by Warren Ellis): All the pulp heroes, all the comic heroes, and much else besides, all exist in the same world. The Shadow (or an expy, that is, a clone), Sherlock Holmes, Fantastic Four expys, and on and on. Plus […]