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sNew Release Roundup – 5 May 2018: Fantasy and Adventure
Saturday , 5, May 2018 Just Released Leave a commentA legendary Viking, a cursed outcast without arms, an Army sniper on the wrong side of the scope, and the return of The Ghost Who Walks feature in this week’s roundup of the newest releases in fantasy and adventure. Amnesia (The Book of Maladies #6) – D. K. Holmberg Deception runs deeper than the canals […]
Production Test by Raymond F Jones appeared in the October 1949 issue of Astounding. It can be read here at Archive.org. While I was excited to see a Raymond F. Jones story in this issue, Production Test was something of a let-down. Unlike his noir thriller, The Martian Circe, or his raygun epic The Jewels […]
When browsing through SFFaudio.com’s excellent collection of public domain works, I discovered two important aspects to Weird Tales that I had previously glossed over. First, the magazines featured a startling amount of poetry compared to these more prose-bound days. Second, much of it was written by women, and a significant fraction more than the pulp prose works. As […]
I recently came across “The Electric Duel” by Hugo Gernsback while trawling the internet. It’s a short bit of what would now be called flash fiction, written at the dawn of science fiction as a genre, that illustrates the unease the genre has with Gernsback–in addition to his low and late payments to his authors.(1) For it is […]
All war is murder for profit. Some corporations are just more open about it. WARDOGS INCORPORATED is one of the largest and most professional mercenary corporations operating in the Kantillon subsector. If you need a bodyguard, an assassination team, or an armored cavalry regiment complete with air support, WARDOGS Inc. can provide it for you… […]
We need to have a conversation about Lovecraft. Specifically, we need to do away with the idea that talking about Lovecraft signals any sort of deeper understanding of the masters of pulp fiction. In the grand scheme of things, HP Lovecraft’s name serves as a talisman for basic-tier fans of the pulps. His writings are […]
All war is murder for profit. Some corporations are just more open about it. WARDOGS INCORPORATED is one of the largest and most professional mercenary corporations operating in the Kantillon subsector. If you need a bodyguard, an assassination team, or an armored cavalry regiment complete with air support, WARDOGS Inc. can provide it for you… […]