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sSensor Sweep: Sword & Sorcery, Forgotten Realms, Tolkien, Frazetta
Monday , 28, April 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentRobert E. Howard (Jose’s Amazing World of Fantasy): Join us for an exclusive live interview with Willard M. Oliver, acclaimed author and scholar, as we dive deep into his latest biography, Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author. Weird Tales (Tellers of Weird Tales): Early on there must have been authors […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 26 April 2025
Saturday , 26, April 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. EngineMasters: Retribution – Gus Harris-Reid A Nation divided. An endless civil war. A pilot who can end it all. Newly graduated EngineMaster Dawn Fletcher is eager to take the fight to the […]
Sensor Sweep: Robert Bloch, Flashing Swords, Dragonbane
Monday , 21, April 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentEdgar Rice Burroughs (Walker’s Library): A Princess of Mars2 not only began on of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ many long-running series of adventure novels—alongside the Tarzan, Venus, and Pelludicar stories—but this one novel set a standard for fantastic adventure fiction that cast a shadow so long that many of you don’t realize that you’re standing in […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 19 April 2025
Saturday , 19, April 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. Apocalypse Healer – Hideous Grain Fight. Heal. Survive. The Integration didn’t just change the Earthen Union—it tore it apart. Monsters, mayhem, and madness turned civilization into a battlefield. Yet, while the world […]
Sensor Sweep: Robert McGinnis, Solar Pons, Louis L’Amour, Erol Otis
Monday , 14, April 2025 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentNew (DMR Books): With the release of Swords of Steel IV right around the corner, authors from the book (along with myself) have recently made some appearances on podcasts to discuss it. Art (Mystery File): Death Noted: Artist Robert McGinnis (1926-2025) Robert E. Howard (Michael K. Vaughn): A New Robert E. Howard Biography! Art (The […]
I think my first exposure to Genghis Khan was Harold Lamb’s Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde. That was a Random House World Landmark Book. Fifty years ago, school libraries were filled with World Landmark Books. Later I read Harold Lamb’s books on Genghis Khan, the Crusades, Tamerlane and my favorite, The March of the […]
The Bluecoats are Sergeant Chesterfield, a squared away NCO trying to do his best, and Corporal Blutch, who will do anything to survive the Civil War. Blutch is a bit harder to handle as he is not a coward or a sad sack or even a shamming E-4. There’s no risk of desertion here, but Blutch […]