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sWolf-Dreams by Michael D. Weaver is the first in a fantasy trilogy. Published by Avon Books in May 1987, mass market paperback format, 186 pages. Michael D. Weaver (1961-1998) had seven novels published between 1987-1996. I read Bloodfang (1989), the last in the trilogy sometime back. I don’t remember when I read the novel. I […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 22 March 2025
Sunday , 23, March 2025 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. Beginnings (Lost Town #4) – Nathan Hystad Cause and effect are a universal truth. Most of Carmichael’s population made it home, but not everyone wants to return. Both parties must start again, […]
Sensor Sweep: Robert Bloch, Gondolin, Galloglachs, Swords of Steel
Monday , 17, March 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentComic Books (Glitternight): This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog looks at Sun Girl, a Marvel character from back when the company was called Timely Comics. Fantasy (Ken Lizzi): It is unsurprising that The Hollow Hills is generally lacking in suspense. We readers — even more than the narrator, Merlin — know the […]
Peter Haining was one of the top-tier anthologists of the late 20th Century. He would cover a theme including contents that were deep and wide. If you bought a book he edited, you would come out knowing much more than when you started. One of my favorites is Great Irish Tales of Fantasy and Myth. […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 15 March 2025
Sunday , 16, March 2025 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. Battlefield Diplomacy – L. L. Richman A fragile alliance. A stolen weapon. A war for Humanity’s future. Special Forces operator Matt Whitaker survived the Oniki War — but only just. Now the […]
Sensor Sweep: James Bond Copyright, Joseph Payne Brennan, Tanith Lee
Monday , 10, March 2025 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentAuthors (Black Gate): A Celebration of Life for Howard Andrew Jones (HAJ) was just held in Evansville, IN, Feb 22, 2025. The event gathered friends, family, and over a dozen author colleagues. Numerous online memorials and tributes had been posted leading up to this. Links to many are listed at the bottom of the post; […]
Last year, a friend of mine mentioned he planned on rereading Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream without irony. Synchronicity as I had been thinking of doing the same thing. Norman Spinrad wrote one of the greatest Star Trek episodes, “The Doomsday Machine” from Season 2. He wrote a couple competent space operas in the 60s, […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 8 March 2025
Saturday , 8, March 2025 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. The Atlantis Equation (The Traveler #7) – Vaughn Heppner Ever want revenge so bad you’d cross the galaxy for it? U.S. Marine Jake Bayard does. After a telepathic killer executes his pregnant […]
Sensor Sweep: Forgotten Realms, White Dwarf, Averoigne
Monday , 3, March 2025 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentComic Books (Dark Worlds Quarterly): Sword & Sorcery comics were well-established by 1978. Conan the Barbarian, Savage Sword of Conan, The Warlord dominated at Marvel and DC. What wasn’t well-known was the new RPG gaming magazines. The Dragon started as another magazine but launched in its Dragony form June 1976. That magazine offered funny cartoons […]
David Saunders, son of artist Norman Saunders has been producing a series of art biographies of pulp era artists: Norman Saunders, Rafael DeSoto, Walter Baumhaufer, Allen Anderson, and now Boris Dolgov. Boris Dolgov might be my favorite artist of Weird Tales magazine. I like Hannes Bok and some of Hugh Rankin’s interior illustrations but Dolgov […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 1 March 2025
Saturday , 1, March 2025 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. Any Given Doomsday (Gladius Leagues #1) – Michael LaVoice Humanity’s last hope is… a combat sports champion? In the wake of humanity’s great expansion across the stars, war was a thing of […]