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Discover galactic secrets, modern-day paladins, and the Mongoose and the Meerkat in this week’s new releases. Black Cutlass (Privateer Tales #19) – Jamie McFarlane He thought the bloodshed was over. The true terror is just beginning… Captain Liam Hoffen has no time to relax after defeating the Mendari. Hastily organizing an expedition to their home […]

“They called me [Hell’s Legionnaire] in the company. They couldn’t understand why I never had anything to do with women or liquor. They thought the devil was saving me for same vast purpose.” Best known for being the king grifter of a genre known for its rats, L. Ron Hubbard’s literary career is overshadowed by his […]

Discover interstellar cops, cyberpunk agents, and vengeance-driven chi cultivators in this week’s new releases. Alliance Rising (The Star Guild Saga #3) – Brandon Ellis The aliens want her dead. Easier said than done. Ali, archaeologist and expert at cuneiform translation, knows about the long-departed Anunnaki slavers, not just because of the ancient writings she has […]

With the recent publishing of Mortu and Kyrus stories in The Eye of Sounnu and The Penultimate Men, let us revisit the first, “Mortu and Kyrus in the White City.” “Come then, try my steel and I will send you to hell where you belong. The gods of my people look down upon those that […]

Uncover professional wizards, generation colony ships, heroes from another world, and buried alien starships in this week’s new releases. Dragontiarna: Defenders – Jonathan Moeller The realm of Andomhaim reels beneath the invasion of Warlord Agravhask, and Ridmark stands in his path. Ridmark knows that Agravhask is only the servant of the mighty Warden of Urd […]

First published in The Howard Collector, Spring 1967, “The Curse of the Golden Skull”, by Robert E. Howard, resembles a prose poem in the same vein as Clark Ashton Smith’s “Chinoiserie”. While there is a narrative thread throughout the short story, it does not, at first glance, map to conventional dramatic structure. The three sections, “The Curse of the […]

This week’s newest releases feature an engineer on a quest to complete an impossible radio transmitter, a time-stranded master scout, and a tribe’s race against to clock to pay a debt–or lose their lands. The Earth a Machine to Speak (Yankee Republic #5) – Fenton Wood A young radio engineer travels across an alt-history America, […]

2004’s Pulp Fictioneers, a collection of Writer’s Digest columns reprinted by John Locke, contains a wonderful little essay on the state of science fiction by Amazing Stories editor Jerry K. Westerfield. Entitled “The Sky’s No Limit”, Westerfield’s January 1940 column gives rare circulation figures, a who’s who of pre-Campbelline science fiction (Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Taine, Abraham Merrit, […]

In this week in Science Fiction and Fantasy, humans are under the microscope as an invasive species, a special forces unit strives to prevent the spread of an interstellar empire, and a collection of fantasy stories by David C. Smith appears for the first time in 40 years. Final Days: Colony (Final Days #2) – […]

God might not play dice with the universe, but the devils do. In The Black Moon Chronicles: The Sign of Darkness, written by François Marcela-Froideval and drawn by Olivier Ledroit, Lucifer grows tired of his generals throwing matches in their little games. So he engineers a game in the mortal world where none of the […]

This week’s new releases showcase mercenary giant robots, the return of a Weird Tale, genetic engineering run amok, and a warning from the Penultimate Men. The Buried World (The Grave Kingdom #2) – Jeff Wheeler The orphaned Bingmei didn’t choose to be a hero. She has no wish to cross the Death Wall to save […]

I’ll be light on content as I try to come up with a good article topic related to “Blame!”, Tsutomu Nihei’s cyberpunk masterpiece. Highly recommended. In the meantime, take a look at the Superversive livestream. Sunday, June 28, we talked about the topic of spirituality in anime – which anime/manga handle it well and which […]