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sNew ALT-HERO novels and stretch goals
Friday , 6, October 2017 Comics, News, Promotions, Publications 2 CommentsWe’re going to sell these ebooks for $5 when they come out anyhow, so if you want to be the first in line and continue pushing Alt★Hero towards its stretch goals in the meantime, you can now buy the ebook version of the first novel, co-written by Jon Del Arroz and Vox Day. We’ve also added a […]
Yes, role-playing games are the culprit. They are the root cause of why contemporary authors are largely unable to tell a complete story. (Their rpg campaigns were not designed to ever culminate into an ending, either!) They are the root cause of why contemporary authors are unable to think beyond origin stories, flashbacks, backstories, and […]
The new science fiction novel by Justin knight. A group of blue collar workers are selected to run the first manned space station, Praxis, at the edge of our galaxy. It will be part of mankind’s bold ambition to explore beyond what we know. But trouble is heading right for them. A gang of vicious […]
Short Reviews – The Sandhound Strikes, by Ross Rocklynne
Friday , 6, October 2017 Uncategorized 2 CommentsThe Sandhound Strikes by Ross Rocklynne appeared in the Spring 1945 issue of Planet Stories. It can be read here at Archive.org. The Sandhound Strikes is a great example of why it’s such a shame that Ross Rocklynne has become one of the forgotten greats of science-fiction, supplanted in the pantheon by Campbell’s Big Three. […]
ALT-HERO smashes through the $70k mark
Friday , 6, October 2017 Comics, News, Promotions, Publications Leave a commentThank you all so much for your remarkable support for the Alt★Hero campaign. We’re very pleased to announce that JON DEL ARROZ will be co-writing the first Alt★Hero novel with Vox Day, which will be published by Castalia House in ebook, audio, and paperback. Jon’s got a brand new science fiction novella out called Gravity of the […]
For the better part of the year I’ve been playing in a Mutant: Year Zero game. And, now, since I recently started playing a new game of Gamma World (run by and covered by Jeffro Johnson here) I reckon it makes some sense to do a short bit of compare and contrast. Thematically both games […]
Explore baseball’s future in the heart-warming novella by multi-award nominated science fiction author Jon Del Arroz! Commissioner Hideki Ichiro is planning a field of dreams on the moon. The World Baseball League’s viewership has declined to some of the most alarming levels in the game’s history. To survive, baseball needs to expand to a new […]
The glare and the clatter died at the same time throughout the Club Samedi. Even the buzzing crowd-noise suspended in expectation. Behind the orchestra sounded a gong. Once. Twice. Thrice… The master of ceremonies intoned: ‘Midnight. The witching hour. And Illyria!’ The gong chimed on to twelve and stopped. * * * […]
Civil war boils across the galaxy in the fifth book in Jay Allan’s Blood on the Stars series. A Deadly Fight to the Finish… The warrior culture of the Alliance has fragmented, and comrade fights comrade, brother kills brother. The Red Alliance forces, backed by the Union and its propaganda machine, have the advantage in […]
There’s just something about the vast red wastelands of our nearest planetary neighbor. Even though we’ve all seen photos of the desolate surface taken by our robot pioneers and know on an intellectual level that nothing waits for us on Mars but red dirt, freezing winds, and the wreckage of the machines we’ve sent to […]
Alternatives to First Edition Gamma World
Wednesday , 4, October 2017 Appendix N, Tabletop Games 4 CommentsA reader with the eminently post-apocalyptic name of Taarkoth writes in with this grievous lament: So these and the last two posts got me interested in looking at 1e Gamma World, only for me to find to my immense frustration that, other than prohibitively expensive physical copies on ebay, the only Gamma World available for legal […]
Captain Europa makes his pitch
Tuesday , 3, October 2017 Comics, Promotions, Publications Leave a commentAnd Dynamique is considering her options. We’ve got some very interesting new Alt★Hero developments we’ll be announcing soon, including at least one new stretch goal, although it is going to be a few days before we’ll able to add the various add-ons that people have been requesting. Don’t worry, we’ve got more than three weeks left, so […]