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sScience Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 14 January 2023
Saturday , 14, January 2023 Uncategorized Leave a commentEvery week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Dark Avenger: The Strange Saga of The Shadow – Will Murray The Deepest Secrets of the Master Avenger Revealed at Last! Dark Avenger: The Strange Saga of The Shadow documents the enigmatic character’s […]
I read the last third of stories in Dark Forces. Karl Edward Wagner, “Where the Summer Ends”: I read this one back in summer 1983 in the collection In a Lonely Place. Wagner was a rising star in the late 1970s. He was viewed as the new hope in sword & sorcery. He also wrote […]
Many of my conversations online with authors and superfans have recently revolved around the sudden revelation that there is another, separate independent science fiction tradition that has arisen from a completely different distribution and audience from the conventional independent scene. And, as books from this scene push into not just Amazon but even brick and […]
Sensor Sweep: Warhammer movie, Tales from the Magician’s Skull, Tarzan Comic-Books
Tuesday , 3, January 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentAviation (Aviation Geek Club): The SR-71, unofficially known as the “Blackbird,” is a long-range, advanced, strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed A-12 and YF-12A aircraft. The first flight of an SR-71 took place on Dec. 22, 1964, and the first SR-71 to enter service was delivered to the 4200th (later 9th) Strategic Reconnaissance Wing […]
Baen Books has been producing a series of themed science fiction anthologies featuring new writers. Gunfight on Europa Station was released as a hardback last year and as a paperback last month. The back of Galaxy magazine in 1950 had this: “Jets blasting, Bat Durston came screeching down through the atmosphere of Bbllzznaj, a tiny […]