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sSensor Sweep: MERP, Bran Mak Morn, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ramsey Campbell
Monday , 11, January 2021 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsAuthors (CBC): The man was buried in June. Staff from the graveyard stood respectfully at his grave on a little hill near a forest. His coffin was covered in earth. A small numbered plaque on the ground recorded his grave’s location. But his name was not marked on the grave. The man’s name was Charles […]
Sensor Sweep: War Duke, Thongor, At the Mountains of Madness, Middle Earth RPG
Monday , 4, January 2021 Sensor Sweep 5 CommentsBook Review (Ken Lizzi): So, here it is, the final Swords Against Darkness installment. #V. Sad. I wish Andrew Offutt had produced more. But how about that cover? I think it is terrific. There is an advertisement just inside the book for a series called Ro-Lan by Mike Sirota. Anyone read those? Any good? Andrew […]
Sensor Sweep: King Size Conan, The Keep, Guy N. Smith
Monday , 28, December 2020 Sensor Sweep 6 CommentsComic Books (Kabooooom): KING-SIZE CONAN #1/ Stories by ROY THOMAS, KURT BUSIEK, CHRIS CLAREMONT, KEVIN EASTMAN & STEVEN S. DEKNIGHT/ Art by STEVE MCNIVEN, PETE WOODS, ROBERTO DE LA TORRE, KEVIN EASTMAN & JESUS SAIZ / Colors by IVE SVORCINA, PETE WOODS, CARLOS LOPEZ, NEERAJ MENON & JESUS SAIZ/ Letters by VC’S TRAVIS LANHAM / Published […]
Sensor Sweep: Alan Dean Foster, D&D Movie, Timothy Zahn
Monday , 21, December 2020 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsStar Wars (Polygon): For several years, author Alan Dean Foster had been trying, without success, to get paid for several major tie-in novels adapting movies from the Star Wars and Alien franchises. While Disney has kept the books in print with other publishers, with Titan handling Alien and Del Rey on Star Wars, Foster says […]
Star Wars (Bleeding Fool): Apparently Marvel’s Doctor Aphra and Bounty Hunters books are taking a break according to Star Wars Splash Page. This may not be too much of a surprise given the recent layoffs at Marvel. But I’ve spoken with some folks who keep tabs on the comic book industry and this is the […]
Sensor Sweep: Mandalorian, David Prowse, Ben Bova, Shadowlands
Monday , 7, December 2020 Sensor Sweep 5 CommentsFantasy (Aeon): Tolkien articulated his anxieties about the cultural changes sweeping across Britain in terms of ‘American sanitation, morale-pep, feminism, and mass-production’, calling ‘this Americo-cosmopolitanism very terrifying’ and suggesting in a 1943 letter to his son Christopher that, if this was to be the outcome of an Allied Second World War win, he wasn’t sure […]
Publishing (Kairos): ViacomCBS Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAC, VIACA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell the publishing business Simon & Schuster (“Simon & Schuster”) to Penguin Random House LLC (“Penguin Random House”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA, for $2.175 billion in cash. Science Fiction (DMR Books): First […]
Sensor Sweep: Tolkien Essays, Solar Pons, Zorro, Weird Menace
Monday , 23, November 2020 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsTolkien (The Guardian): A previously unpublished collection of writings by JRR Tolkien, exploring the world of Middle-earth in essays tackling topics ranging from Elvish reincarnation to which characters had beards, is to be published next summer. The new collection, which is authorised by the Tolkien estate, will be called The Nature of Middle-earth, and will […]
Sensor Sweep: Providence, 4th Generation Warfare, Frank Belknap Long
Monday , 16, November 2020 Sensor Sweep 6 CommentsJames Bond (Arkhaven Comics): Daniel Craig is the only man on Earth who doesn’t want to be James Bond. For the past three movies every time his James Bond comes on screen you see a guy who seems to feel like an old man who has failed at all of his dreams in life and […]
Sensor Sweep: Fright Night, L. Sprague de Camp, Space Viking
Monday , 9, November 2020 Sensor Sweep 4 CommentsCinema (Taste of Cinema): The experimentation and comparable restraint of the American New Wave had crested and crashed, flooding 80s cinema with cheap excess. What had been operatic overload with a point in Siegel, Kubrick and Lucas was now stagnant, murky in its message and rubbish strewn. Nothing demonstrated this better than the decade’s dubious […]
Sensor Sweep: Werewolves of London, James Bond, John Thunstone, The Dare
Monday , 2, November 2020 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsPublishing (Kairos): The Strand is far from the only bookstore to fall on hard times this year. Barnes & Noble, the last big book retail chain, faces mounting pandemic-related difficulties compounded by their own bad decisions. I loathe Amazon as much as the next person who relies on it. But on recent visits to […]
Sensor Sweep: Castle Amber, Fanzines, Frank Belknap Long, Elak of Atlantis
Monday , 26, October 2020 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentLovecraft & Games (Fictiontalk): If you are a fan of horror you’ve heard of HP Lovecraft at some point. His works of fiction from “Shadow out of Time” to “The Call of Cthulhu” have influenced many science fiction and horror writers alike. Videogames are no exception. If you’re a die-hard Lovecraft fan or just looking […]