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sSensor Sweep: Brom, Charles Beaumont, Celtic Adventures
Monday , 16, June 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentArt (Art of the Genre): Tim Kask (heal quickly man!) once let me know with both barrels just how hard it was to get fantasy artists in the 1970s for the likes of Dragon Magazine, because basically there weren’t such an animal. Contrast that with today, and you can’t walk your fingers an inch over […]
Sensor Sweep: Weird Tales, Lin Carter, Pin Ball Machines
Monday , 9, June 2025 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsFantasy (Dark Worlds Quarterly): Continuing our series of Sword & Sorcery Firsts we are technically still in the Pulp Era until 1954 or so a few of the following happened in a Pulp magazine. The Digests take over shortly thereafter. Fantasy Fiction as a whole, whether it is S&S or not, has faded from much […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 7 June 2025
Saturday , 7, June 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. Dragon Rising (The Starship In The Stone #5) – M. R. Forbes Thomas has faced impossible odds since becoming Excalibur’s captain. His greatest challenge still lies ahead. The line between hope and […]
Pulp (Comics Radio): We come to the last work of prose fiction in the January 10, 1926 issue of Adventure. This one is a novella titled “He Shall Have Best Who Can Keep,” by Gordon MacCreath. Writing (Kairos): Breaking Bad distinguishes itself from most modern storytelling in many respects, not least of which being its deliberate […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 31 May 2025
Sunday , 1, June 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 Apothecary Diaries #14 – Natsu Hyuuga In the East is a land ruled by an emperor, whose consorts and serving women live in a sprawling complex known as the hougong, the […]