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sSensor Sweep: Black Mask, Call of Cthulhu, Mammoth Adventure, Lin Carter
Monday , 10, July 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentPulp (Pulp Flakes): Last week, we saw Popular Publications was struggling to make money on Black Mask at the fifteen cent price point in 1946. How could they make it work? In May 1946, Black Mask went to publishing every other month, a sure sign of trouble. Detective Fiction Weekly had stopped publication in 1944. […]
Baen Books has been producing the most interesting themed anthologies of the big publishers. Time Troopers has just come out in mass market paperback. The hardback came out last year. The paperback is a big 653 pages. Love the cover by Kieran Yanner. Contents: Author Title Hank Davis Introduction Robert Heinlein All You Zombies Christopher […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 8 July 2023
Saturday , 8, July 2023 Uncategorized 1 CommentEvery week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. The Last Battleship – Joshua T. Calvert Humanity’s endless war and a crew of outcasts on a decommissioned warship who could change the future. First contact with the alien “Clicks” led to […]
Sensor Sweep: Ron Lesser, New Knives, Dashiell Hammett,
Monday , 3, July 2023 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsCrime Fiction (Vintage Pop Fictions): The Snake, published in 1964, is the eighth of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer novels. It is a kind of sequel to The Girl Hunters and you absolutely have to read The Girl Hunters before reading The Snake. Some further explanation is however required. Between 1947 and 1952 Spillane wrote six […]
Pen & Sword History continues to take my money. One of the batch of my most recent order from Hamilton Books is The Galatians by John D. Grainger. Subtitled “Celtic Invaders of Greece and Asia Minor,” this is the most comprehensive text I have ever read on the Galatians. History has episodes of wandering tribes […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 1 July 2023
Saturday , 1, July 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. 12 Miles Below: The Frozen Realm – Mark Arrows Icy death above. Monster-filled dungeons below. He must fight or freeze. Extreme sub-zero temperatures suffocate the surface. Frozen structures of bygone eras span […]