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The tumult of recent events have fostered a desire to read more classic American historical fiction. To remember the stories we once told about ourselves instead of those others tell us we must be, at a time when all sides tell us to be anything other than what we are. To learn once more of […]

Space truckers, murderhobos, Hell invaders, and the Dragon Spooker fill this week’s new releases.. The Godblade – J. Christopher Tarpley The warrior-smith Rænon, after witnessing the return of Brakur the Insane God, has returned to his homeland in Aelbrond. Now he must seek the tomb of the dead god Farick for the remains he needs […]

The new releases chosen for this week’s review both underperformed enough that an honest review would be uncomfortably close to a roast. Since I am still halfway through the classic Revolutionary War novel Rabble in Arms, which I intend to review next week, here are a couple reviews of older SFF books from the Castalia […]

Cyberpunk mercenaries, not-so immortal cultivators, and the crime mysteries of Ray Bradbury adorn this week’s new release list. The Acheron – Rick Partlow Sandi and Ash never set out to be heroes. She joined the Fleet to please her mother, the Admiral. He signed up to escape the grinding poverty of the Housing Blocks. And […]

“Because I believe in calling things what they are…And you should make a habit of it too. A group of people who can’t choose an insignia when they have a whole day to decide, who can’t even toss a coin to choose, are a spineless herd… “And a herd like that is perfect cannon fodder.” […]

This week’s new releases follow the adventures of a classic Edwardian occult detective; a different, even alien, version of the Cold War crisis; and a Marine exiled to Antarctica before retirement. The Carnacki Casebook, Volume 3 – William Rankin The Carnacki Casebook is a new collection of stories featuring Edwardian era occult detective Thomas Carnacki. […]

This was a project in the works for awhile. And now, thanks to Ben Wheeler, it’s finally here! Pinkerton’s Ghosts is a horror podcast about the adventures of the last Paranormal Detectives, Jack Morrow, Jim Donovan and Sean Russo as they uncover supernatural events and the mystery of their missing companions. Ben is the Captain […]

The time for the extermination of the casteless untouchables has come. Only Ashok Vadal and his battle-tested Sons of the Black Sword fight for the fleeing nameless, in the name of an unknown god that Ashok cannot bring himself to believe in. But Ashok knows his duty, even if that forces him to cross blades […]

Death’s apprentice on an alien world, interstellar Ghurkas, and the robot apocalypse fill this week’s new releases. Acheron Inheritance (Federation Chronicles #1) – Ken Lozito On a dying world along the galactic fringe, Quinton Aldren awakens in the body of an archaic android that’s barely operational. He has only vague memories of who he was […]