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Every week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Ganwold’s Child (The Sergey Chronicles #1) – D. T. Read Darcie was taking her young child Tristan to rejoin her husband Lujan in the Enach system when nonhuman slavers attacked and captured […]

Every week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. The Blade Bearers (Blade and Bone #6) – D. K. Holmberg As the drumbeats of war intensify, the Bearers must answer. Finn and Morgan struggle to return to Verendal, finding only destruction […]

Every week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Cirsova #16 / Fall 2023 – edited by P. Alexander Tales of heroic adventure and daring suspense that include: Krallenburg is beset by a werewolf! Can witchhunter Friedrich Rosch stop the monstrous […]

Every week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Combat Frame XSeed Illustrated Tech Guide II – Brian Neimeier  Space is a graveyard Meet the advanced war machines fighting for the fate of Earth! Get the official specs on every Ynzu […]

Every week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Before Us (The Abyss #2) – Nathan Hystad They came from below but were they also here Before Us? Wyatt survived the initial destruction, but he’s lost someone important to him. While […]

“We solved every case we worked on. It’s just that the solutions weren’t always pretty. An explosion here, an inferno there, and in the end, we’re left with a mountain of corpses, and, incidentally, a solution.”–Kei, “The Great Adventure of the Dirty Pair” When science fiction writer A. Bertram Chandler visited Japan in the late […]

Every week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. My Sister Suprema – Chuck Dixon and Anthony Gonzales-Clark Randy is a bright young boy who devours comics and dreams of becoming a superhero. One day, he discovers a secret formula on […]

Every week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. The Council of Yoran (The Chain Breaker #12) – D. K. Holmberg The Chain Breaker must fall. Something greater must rise. A dark power builds, but Gavin and his allies can’t find […]

Every week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Lord of a Shattered Land – Howard Andrew Jones The Dervan Empire has at last triumphed over Volanus, putting the great city to the torch, its treasures looted, temples defiled, and fields […]

The fabled city of Volanus has fallen, pillaged by the Dervan Empire. Those of its people who were spared the sword have been scattered throughout Derva as slaves. Now, Volanus’s greatest general walks hidden through the Dervan Empire, searching for his lost people, that he might rescue them, one by one, so that Volanus may […]

Every week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. City of Steel and Shadow (The Last Eternal #5) – Jacob Peppers Death has a voice. The wanderer knew that, for he had heard that voice often enough. And as he walked […]

Every week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. By This Axe – presented by Autarch By This Axe: The Cyclopedia of Dwarven Civilization reveals the secrets of the great and proud race of dwarves, compiled, codified, and curated for use in […]