Search Results for: Asimov
Sensor Sweep: Star Frontiers, Steranko, Asimov, Grey Hawk
Monday , 13, November 2023 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentConan (Education Forensics): If you listen to “Ask Chuck Dixon” on YouTube or UATV, you’ll know that Dixon has written thousands of comic books. He created the character Bane, and wrote ‘Batman’ for DC for ten years. He’s also responsible for the Levon Cade series of Vigilante Justice novels. One of the things he talks […]
Sensor Sweep: Clark Ashton Smith, Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, Asimov
Monday , 3, January 2022 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentReview (With Both Hands): The Book of Joe , the fifth entry in the Forgotten Ruin series, offers us a trip through a mythic underworld, some serious Rangering how-to, and giggling legionnaires. You’ve got to check this out. When we left off in Lay the Hate, Talker had jumped into the swirling maelstrom of […]
Sensor Sweep: Legion of Time, Creepy Asimov, Fletcher Pratt, Lost Worlds
Monday , 18, May 2020 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsGaming (Modiphius): Today we’re delighted to announce the release of Conan the Adventurer in PDF a major new sourcebook for the acclaimed Robert E. Howard’s Conan Adventures in an Age Undreamed of RPG. Conan the Adventurer is the definitive guide to the lands south of the Styx River, including serpent-haunted Stygia, Kush, Darfar, Keshan, Punt, […]
Sensor Sweep: Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Machen, Brak, Isaac Asimov
Monday , 23, December 2019 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsDashiell Hammett (Don Herron): Mean Streets readers get a Christmas Treat this year from no less than the pulp authority John Locke, doing a deep-dive into the origins of Hammett’s career as a writer. John made a cool discovery in the forgotten trade magazines of yesteryear, he and Terry Zobeck exchanged a few remarks about […]
A lot of ink has been spilled on trying to categorize science fiction into hard and soft categories, whether at the Castalia House blog, other online sites, and in print. What quickly emerges is how fluid the definitions are. Hard science fiction may refer, depending on the speaker, to fiction addressing the physical sciences, adhering […]
Short Reviews – …And Now You Don’t (Part 2 of 3), by Isaac Asimov
Friday , 28, September 2018 Uncategorized 2 Comments…And Now You Don’t (Part 2), by Isaac Asimov was published in the December 1949 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It can be read here at Archive.org. A young woman privy to knowledge of a galaxy-shaking conspiracy finds herself a potential political prisoner on the world where a tyrant had sought to rebuild a space […]
Short Reviews – …And Now You Don’t (Part 1 of 3), by Isaac Asimov
Friday , 6, July 2018 Uncategorized 5 Comments…And Now You Don’t, by Isaac Asimov, was serialized in three parts beginning with the November 1949 issue of Astounding. It was later anthologized as the second half of the book “Second Foundation”. It can be read here at Archive.org. This is it, guys! One of the touchstone sagas of Campbell’s Astounding and the Golden […]
A 1959 essay by Isaac Asimov, on creativity, is rediscovered and published at Technology Review: The history of human thought would make it seem that there is difficulty in thinking of an idea even when all the facts are on the table. Making the cross-connection requires a certain daring. It must, for any cross-connection that […]
Sensor Sweep: Esteban Maroto, Greyhawk, Girl-boss Fatigue
Monday , 30, June 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentComic Books (Dark Worlds Quarterly): Esteban Maroto made a splash in America when he drew Red Sonja in a steel bikini for Marvel then “Dax the Damned’ series for Warren Publications. Maroto would draw many other comics for the black & white publisher but he caught fire with Dax. This opulent but depressing series began […]
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 […]
Sensor Sweep: Frazetta, Steranko, Portal Adventures
Monday , 31, March 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentFiction (Marzaat): Below is a list of some fantastic fiction related to World War One. Linked stories are discussed on the Home Page, and each story there classified by four characteristics and tagged accordingly: Writing (With Both Hands): Nick Cole’s Strange Company 3 is coming out April, so I started reading the first Strange Company again this week. […]
Sensor Sweep: Male Readers, Obsidian Moon, Vast Grimm, Hell Divers II
Monday , 24, March 2025 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentPublishing (Wasteland & Sky): Today we’re going to look into the question as to why males have been not only cast out of the book industry, but are actively ignored and looked down on as readers by those still inside. This is not a new issue. Where did all this hostility come from, and why […]