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Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 2 December 2023
Saturday , 2, December 2023 Uncategorized Leave a commentEvery week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Beware of Chicken #3 – Casualfarmer A laugh-out-loud, slice-of-life martial-arts fantasy about . . . farming???? Jin Rou wanted to be a cultivator. A man powerful enough to defy the heavens. A […]
Sensor Sweep: Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Dire Wolves
Monday , 27, November 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentPaleontology (Science.org): Dire wolves, which died out with mammoths and saber-toothed cats at the end of the last ice age, were long thought to be close cousins of gray wolves. Now, the first analysis of dire wolf DNA finds they instead traveled a lonely evolutionary path: They are so different from other wolves, coyotes, and […]
Sensor Sweep: Babylon-5, Beowulf, Mirkwood Manual, A. E. van Vogt
Monday , 18, September 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentMyth (Dark Worlds Quarterly): Whether you call him Siegfried (in the German The Nibelungenlied) or Sigurd (the Völsunga saga, and the Poetic Edda), it doesn’t really matter. He fights the dragon Fafnir and wins. It is one of the classic myths that lies behind much of Sword & Sorcery. In the original tale, Siegfried is […]
Sensor Sweep: Shadows in Zamboula, John Jakes’ Brak, Castle Amber
Monday , 14, August 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentArt (Paperback Palette): Paul Alexander (1937-2021) was one of the premier ‘gadget’ illustrators in science fiction. This cover for Signet’s 1985 paperback edition of Isidore Haiblum’s The Hand of Ganz shows just how outstanding he was at creating believable mechanical hardware. From his eye-catching start in 1976, till his retirement in 1998, Alexander produced more […]
Sensor Sweep: Morgan’s Fort, Philip Wylie, Turin, Against the Giants
Monday , 7, August 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentGaming (Rageaholic): How the industry ruined itself by giving us what we want. Tolkien (Black Gate): I have decided to take “Discovering Tolkien,” the title of this series, as my means of entry into the subject. By doing so, I can only hope that I happen to make (if not “new”) interesting or sideways observations […]
Last month, someone gifted me with a copy of Adventures in Time and Space. It is the 1990 reprint but still, this is one of the most important science fiction anthologies ever published. The first edition from Random House was from 1946. 35 stories over 1004 pages! There were some mass market paperbacks derived from […]
Sensor Sweep: Valiant Comics, Killers of the Flower Moon, Polyhedron, Monster Hunter Bloodlines
Monday , 24, July 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentD&D (Walker’s Retreat): While I talk a lot about Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition, I have mentioned other games that are fit for purpose. Below is a short, not-exclusive, list. Traveller: I prefer the original edition, but I have yet to see anything disqualifying about the subsequent ones. Firearms (Tom Kratman): McNamara seems to […]
Sensor Sweep: Doom that Came to Gotham, Indiana Jones, Swamp Thing, Bowie Knives
Monday , 17, July 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentReview (With Both Hands): Hacking Galileo by Fenton Wood is many things: an adventure, a lament for an age now lost, even a manual for subverting obsolete technology. This book is for the adults who once were the spergy GenX and GenY kids who are the stars of this book. The kids who built radios […]
Baen Books has been producing the most interesting themed anthologies of the big publishers. Time Troopers has just come out in mass market paperback. The hardback came out last year. The paperback is a big 653 pages. Love the cover by Kieran Yanner. Contents: Author Title Hank Davis Introduction Robert Heinlein All You Zombies Christopher […]
Sensor Sweep: Silver Warriors, Dinosaurs, Scanners, Barbarian: Ultimate Warrior
Monday , 17, April 2023 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentConan (Essential Malady): Conan is a hired mercenary working for the rogue prince Xathomidas to overthrow King Strabonus of Koth. These two characters are only mentioned as background to the narrative and Conan is mainly taking orders from General Scythis; usually through his captain Danix, who is charge of the mercenaries. Dixon sets this all […]
An Interview with Morgan Holmes By Matthew Pungitore Ciao! My name is Matthew Pungitore, and in this article, I’ll be talking with Morgan Holmes. So, without further ado, let’s caper like a comet to the interview. Matthew Pungitore: “Morgan, I’m honored to be able to have this opportunity to talk with you like this. I have […]
Sensor Sweep: Time Machine, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance, Into the Unknown
Monday , 20, March 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentRobert E. Howard (Paperback Warrior): “The Frost-Giant’s Daughter” was written by Robert E. Howard in the early 1930s. The story, featuring Conan the Cimmerian, was originally rejected by Weird Tales, so Howard changed the character to Amra of Akbitana and called the story “The Gods of the North”. It was accepted and published by The Fantasy Fan #7 in March, 1934. As a Conan story, […]