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sScience Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 17 May 2025
Saturday , 17, May 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 Dragon’s Breath (The Shadow’s Dragon #5) – Dustin Porta and D. K. Holmberg Escape the past or protect the future? Treylen and his dragon, Rime, have left the assassin’s life behind […]
Sensor Sweep: Cahena, Roger Zelazny, Sterling Lanier
Monday , 12, May 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentCinema (Art of the Movies): We all love rooting for our screen heroes but they would be nothing without a great villain to go up against. Here is the second half of our countdown of forty of the finest. Comic Books (Conan Chronology): I detailed in “How Conan Conquered the Comics Code” how The Savage […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 10 May 2025
Sunday , 11, May 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. Ace in the Hole (Black Badge #3) – Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle On the run and out of time… Everything changed back in Crescent City when Crowley made his choice […]
Weird Tales (Tellers of Weird Tales): The illustration on the cover of Weird Tales for April 1925 is for “When the Green Star Waned” by Nictzin Dyalhis. The artist was Andrew Brosnatch. It shows a man who appears to be falling into a mass of aliens that have invaded Earth. In actuality, the aliens have […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 3 May 2025
Sunday , 4, May 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. Able-Bodied Soldier #4 – J. N. Chaney and Jason Anspach Suit up and move out. Ten years after saving humanity from the Thephari threat, legendary MOCOM instructor Titus Briggs discovers his elite […]
Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation by Edwin Lester Arnold
Thursday , 1, May 2025 Fiction Leave a commentThis is a guest post from Richard: “In short, I am an ignoramus, but pretty well for a yeoman.” This testament of John Ridd, delivered at the outset of R D Blackmore’s LORNA DOONE, could be accorded to Gullivar Jones. The eponymous hero of Edwin Lester Arnold’s planetary adventure of 1905. And with equal […]