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REBEL DEAD REVENGE #3: Running From the Devil is now available for Kindle and Kindle Unlimited from Dark Legion Comics. The Devil is raising an army! To the horror of his loyal servant, Jim, Confederate general Stonewall Jackson has been summoned back from the grave to lead Satan’s army of ravenous undead. But the great general’s […]

Congratulations to Brandon Fiadino, whose Chicago Typewriter: The Red Ribbon was nominated for a Dragon Award in the Best Graphic Novel category! In 1920s Chicago, the criminal underworld is more than vice, racketeering, and bootlegging. While visiting an old shop full of oddities, Emilio comes across an antique ribbon for a typewriter with an unusual history. And […]

Welcome back, Castalia House stalwarts. It’s been an eventful few weeks, and rest assured the wait for members of the blogging team have been chomping at the bit to continue the fantasy and sci-fi conversation with you. The recent technical troubles seem to have been resolved, but the new backend may take us all a […]

Alt★Hero #3: Reprisal is now on Amazon. Kindle and KU editions are available. Michael Martel and the mysterious Immotus have freed Shiloh Summers from the UN’s Superhuman Protective Council, but now Security Director Kulkarni is determined to track them down. So when SPC agents take her mother and father into custody as official persons of interest, […]

We’ve been having some trouble putting up posts because WordPress was in the process of upgrading its basic editing functionality. An upgrade to the new Gutenberg editor appears to have fixed the problem. We now return to our normal posting schedule.

Final Command by A.E. van Vogt appeared in the November 1949 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It can be read here at Archive.org. Councilman Barr, Director of the Council, has been given a burdensome task: find out what the response would be from robots if the Council decided to shut down and destroy all robots. […]

The first installment of Gulf, by Robert Heinlein, appeared in the November 1949 issue of Astounding. It can be found here at Archive.org. Gulf is a slow-burn sci-fi spy thriller. It’s very dark and atmospheric, and while the hook, some of the window dressing, and the MacGuffin are science-fiction, Gulf stands up as a fairly […]

Over the Top, by Lester del Rey, appeared in the November 1949 issue of Astounding. You can’t read it at Archive.org, because John Betancourt had it scrubbed. A little birdie told me it can be found as a .cbr here, though. After that Asimov stinker, this issue of Astounding makes a fabulous 180 with not one, […]

…And Now You Don’t, by Isaac Asimov, was serialized in three parts beginning with the November 1949 issue of Astounding. It was later anthologized as the second half of the book “Second Foundation”. It can be read here at Archive.org. This is it, guys! One of the touchstone sagas of Campbell’s Astounding and the Golden […]