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sSensor Sweep: Fragged Kingdom, Argosy, Mighty Warriors, Captain Future, and The Spider
Monday , 21, May 2018 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentGaming (Modiphius): “The Archdruid is dead! Now is the time to reclaim the world for civilisation. Akharon is a world scarred by a magical druidic war and overflowing with monsters. Much has been lost, waiting to be reclaimed by those bold enough to set foot outside of civilisation’s last bastion, Stronghold. It is a world […]
Sensor Sweep: Shannach- The Last, Hero Kids, Solo, E. R. Eddison
Monday , 14, May 2018 Sensor Sweep 4 CommentsBooks (Haffner Press): “Picking up where Lorelei of the Red Mist: Planetary Romances left off, this volume collects the final 17 stories of strange adventures on other worlds from the undisputed “Queen of Space Opera.” Drawn from the last years of pulp magazines such as Planet Stories, Startling Stories, and digests magazines like Venture Science Fiction, Shannach – The Last: Farewell […]
Sensor Sweep: ERB fonts, Robert Bloch Vampires, Mouse Wars, and The Punisher
Monday , 7, May 2018 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentPublishing (Recoverings): “It’s the nature of fandom. Every fan wants to hold his or her hobby close, be part of it, and contribute to it in some way. Writing, drawing, researching about action, the exotic worlds, the beautiful women and heroic men, the incredible beasts and unknown races are the life’s blood of many an Edgar […]
Sensor Sweep: Ivy Frost, Rebel Songsters, Dying Earths, Tarzan, and Clark Ashton Smith
Monday , 30, April 2018 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsPulp Fiction (Haffner Press): THE COMPLETE IVY FROST Donald Wandrei Introduction by D. H. Olson Cover by Raymond Swanland Decorated Endsheets 18 Double-page Chris Kalb-designed Chapter Spreads 700+ pageSmythe-sewn HardcoverPre-Order price: $45 Cinema (Pulp Catholic): I’m reviewing the old MCU films in preparations for Infinity War. The Star Wars fiasco of this past Christmas has me very concerned for […]
Sensor Sweep: Dungeon Fantasy, Infinity War, Saber & Blood, Halo for Hire
Monday , 23, April 2018 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentRPG (Walker’s Retreat): “Geek Gab Game Night is irregular these days, but worth it when it happens. It happened today, and Dorrinal hosts both Douglas Cole and Sean Punch (“Dr. Kromm”) to talk about their new hotness: Sean Punch, also known as Dr. Kromm, works for Steve Jackson Games. He joins us along with our […]
Sensor Sweep: Harold Lamb, Shaver and Lovecraft, Windy City Pulp & Paperback Show
Monday , 16, April 2018 Sensor Sweep 5 CommentsFiction (Pulp Archivist): “Also of note is that the epic retribution intended in each of these scenes falls considerably short, for a rogue is never a crusader and the shades of gray that cloud these tales never clarify into black and white. It is easy to dismiss this myth of Melniboné as a mere Leftist […]
Pulp-Rev (Pulprev.com): “While the Pulp Revolution has been around for a couple of years now, it isn’t the only literary movement focused on pulp fiction. Indeed, it’s not even the first. Before PulpRev came New Pulp, which Pro Se describes as “fiction written with the same sensibilities, beats of storytelling, patterns of conflict, and creative use of […]
Sensor Sweep: Richard Shaver, Pan Fantasy, Cirsova, Hall of Judgement
Monday , 2, April 2018 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsCinema (Reactionary Times): “Rian Johnson has left J.J. Abrams not just a mess but a complete mess. When The Empire Strikes Back ended, there was an excellent setup for the next movie. Why it practic…al…ly…uh… No, actually. Now that I think about it, the end of Empire created a major plot restriction for the film […]
Sensor Sweep: A. Merritt, Leigh Brackett, Dungeons of Chaos, and Rocket’s Red Glare
Monday , 26, March 2018 Sensor Sweep 5 CommentsFiction (Got Your Games): “A little light reading I have, over the years, read a few of the books written about games and gamers and I’ll list here as many as I can recall off the top of my head, giving a brief review and recommendation. The Elfish Gene by Mark Barrowcliffe Just awesome – […]
Sensor Sweep: Weird Book, Freedom Squadron, Shaver Mystery, and Wasteland Warfare
Monday , 19, March 2018 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsFiction (Scifi Movie Page): “Paul Ganley’s Weirdbook was one of the best small press publications of the 1970s. Modeled very much on Weird Tales, it featured “weird” fiction of all kinds. “Weird fiction” was a catch-all term used by Lovecraft and others in the early 20th century to describe everything from fantasy to horror to […]
Sensor Sweep: A Wrinkle in Time, William Hope Hodgson, and The Shape of Water
Monday , 12, March 2018 Sensor Sweep 6 CommentsD&D (Jeffro Johnson): “This is one of the coolest things on the internet right now: Ron Edwards delves into the topic of how D&D was actually experienced by most people most of the time from the seventies on through to today’s mainline derivatives. And note: this is not about what went on in at Dave […]
Sensor Sweep: Sax Rohmer, Fighting Men, Tolkien, Arthur Machen, and Threads of Fate
Monday , 5, March 2018 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsPulps (Pulp Archivist): “In an attempt to show the wider context of the changes in 1940s literature and how they may have affected Campbell and science fiction, let’s take a look at Doc Savage, the Shadow, and Babette Rosmond. The pulps were dying by inches during the Forties and the reading audience, cynical after another […]