Search Results for: C.S. Lewis
Sensor Sweep: Sword & Sorcery, Tales From the Magician’s Skull, Boxing, C.S. Lewis, RIFTS
Monday , 15, July 2019 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsLit-Crit/Culture Wars (Brain Leakage): They always featured their alpha male heroes in exotic locations, getting into fist fights, knife fights, and gun fights. The women were always fast and dangerous. The bad guys were always powerful and ruthless. The covers usually depicted some hard case with a gun, striking a tough guy pose with a […]
Sensor Sweep: Lovecraft Manga, Manly Wade Wellman, D.C. Comics
Monday , 26, May 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentWeird Westerns (Crime Reads): The weird western is nothing new. Since at least 1932, with Robert E. Howard’s “The Horror from the Mound,” writers have been combining fantasy, science-fiction, and horror with the Old West in novels, stories, comics, and films. The genre built to a crescendo in the 1980s. The last major iteration I […]
Sensor Sweep: Donald Wandrei, Overrated Science Fiction Writers, D&D
Monday , 23, December 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentWriting (Kairos): Brandon Sanderson is widely respected as a meticulous world builder, an innovative storyteller, and a prolific writer. Over the past two decades he’s made his name as a crafter of ultra-refined magic systems and dynamic characters. Games (Kairos): The AAA video game industry stands at a turning point. Facing runaway development costs, dwindling […]
Christopher Tolkien: A Centennial Remembrance
Saturday , 23, November 2024 J. R. R. Tolkien Leave a commentThis is a guest post by Deuce: Yesterday marked the centennial of Christopher Tolkien‘s birth. Such an event is not a minor occasion. In his own way, Christopher was a titanic figure within the sphere of twentieth-century fantasy. In addition to that, he was a good man and an exemplary son. I intend to demonstrate […]
Sensor Sweep: Swords Against Darkness, Blue Star, Ian Fleming
Monday , 3, June 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentFiction (Syfy.com): An oft-discussed, but seldom seen, short story written by a young Rod Serling has finally entered our dimension. Now available to read in the latest issue of The Strand Magazine, “First Squad, First Platoon,” is a semi-autobiographical tale based on The Twilight Zone creator’s harrowing experiences during Pacific combat in World War II. Told from […]
Sensor Sweep: Wizards of the Coast, D.C. Comics, Kull, Tolkien, Bradbury
Monday , 22, April 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentSword & Sorcery (Echoes of Crom): Join me and co-host, Matthew Knight as we discuss the Elak of Atlantis tale “Dragon Moon” by Henry Kuttner. This is the story that inspired the Cauldron Born song, “Dragon Throne”. Conan (Sprague de Camp Fan): “Hyborian Names” is an article by L. Sprague de Camp that appeared in […]
Sensor Sweep: Poul Anderson, Prince Valiant Game, Blue Sonja, Ballantine Fantasy
Monday , 15, April 2024 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentScience Fiction (Type Bar Magazine): A recent Washington Post articleindicated that only 12% of the reading public were interested in reading science fiction. A perusal of bestseller lists for science fiction shows an even more alarming truth: the science fiction books that do sell are a shrinkingly small number of reprints, classics and novels that […]
Sensor Sweep: Dark Harvest, Space Western, Godfather, Cordwainer Smith
Monday , 15, January 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentComic Books (CBR): The trade paperback contains all six issues of Space Western Comics that were originally released in 1952 and 1953 and starred Spurs Jackson, an Arizona rancher who is captured (along with some of his ranch hands) by some Martian invaders. Once on Mars, Spurs and his men overthrow the evil Martians and […]
Sensor Sweep: Conan, James Bond, Creep Show 2, Poul Anderson
Monday , 16, October 2023 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentConan (Sprague de Camp Fan): This one starts with Conan raiding a caravan. A bloody business for sure and Dixon doesn’t shy away from describing the slaughter. Everyone, except for a young male soldier, is unmercifully slaughtered. After the killing is done one of Conan’s men, Zekir al Khoraj, is upset that their raid did […]
Sensor Sweep: Forest Oracle, Things Better Left Alone, Indiana Jones 5
Monday , 26, June 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentPulp (Pulp Flakes): There’s visible improvement in the January 1942 issue of Black Mask. More pages, for a start. 128 pages excluding the covers, and a readable font. There are nineteen pages of ads, so actual fiction is around 112 pages. One more story than the Ellsworth era issue we saw recently. The price is the same, fifteen […]
Sensor Sweep: Warren Magazines, TSR Adventure Modules, Glory Road
Monday , 16, January 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentFirearms (You Tube): Wow, ejecting shell makes bullet go off inside ammo box. RPG (Grognardia): Between 1978 and 1985, TSR Hobbies published eighteen stand-alone adventure modules carrying the byline of Gary Gygax, starting with Steading of the Hill Giant Chief in 1978. Because it was the first of its kind, module G1 does not include a suggested level range […]
Sensor Sweep: Werewolves, Freeze, Dungeon Crawl Classics
Monday , 21, November 2022 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsCinema (Horror Obsessive): I’m a huge fan of Lovecraftian horror. I’ve read a bunch of Lovecraft’s stories, and I absolutely eat up films that riff on the themes and ideas he popularized. So from the moment I heard about Freeze, I knew I had to check out the trailer. Not only is this an obvious […]