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Sensor Sweep: Unearthed Arcana, Weird Tales Story, Robert Bloch, They Thirst
Monday , 10, April 2023 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentFiction (Sprague de Camp Fan): The Weird Tales Story by Robert Weinberg has seen three different editions. The first was published by Fax Collector’s Editions in 1977. This was a nice hardcover book with interior art by Alex Nino. The book is dedicated: To Margaret Brundage, whose covers might not have reflected the contents of Weird Tales but […]
Sensor Sweep: Hill Giant Chief, Jim Henson, The Sunless Citadel
Monday , 13, February 2023 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentConan (Paperback Warrior): If you look online for the definition for “convoluted”, it should just provide a link to Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp’s “Hawks over Shem” short story. In my quest to absorb as much Conan literature as humanly possible, I read half of this particular short story and found myself so confused that I re-read the […]
Sensor Sweep: Robert E. Howard, Mummy’s Curse, Excalibur, Aragorn
Monday , 23, January 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentCinema (MSN.com): 40 years ago, the unlikely acting career of then-bodybuilding champion Arnold Schwarzenegger went off with a bang in Conan the Barbarian (1982). Based on Robert E. Howard’s character of the same name from 1930s pulp magazines, Arnold’s epic sword and sorcery film was helmed by writer-director John Milius, the militant filmmaker best known for writing […]
J. T. T. Ryder’s Hag of the Hills is a new novel from 2022. It is the first part of the Bronze Sword Duology. The novel is set on the island of Skye around 200 B.C. Brennus is the youngest son of a famed warrior. His oldest brother Bodvoc is a metal smith, the middle […]
Gaming (Walker’s Retreat): IIOf course there’s the question of “Can I play this?” and the answer is “Yes.” This is the ruleset that Jon Mollison mentioned in his video that I posted the other day. Review (John C. Wright): Crucifixion Press Resurrects Pulse-Pounding Pulp Action In The New Anthology, ‘Shoot The Devil’: Nearly a century […]
Sensor Sweep: D&D, Fritz Leiber, A.I. Art, Last Bastions
Monday , 19, September 2022 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentT.V. (IGN): Aware of what Sapochnik was accomplishing on Game of Thrones, Condal asked if he would want to develop a Conan series with him and immediately agreed. “He was then off making Thrones for a year,” he explains. “I was writing scripts and sending them to him and he was sending me feedback.We wrote […]
In the 1990s, it seemed a new book on pulp art or lavishly illustrated books on the pulp magazines came out every year. Lee Server’s Danger is My Business was a great introduction to various pulp magazine genres with lots of color reproductions of pulp magazine covers. Robert E. Howard in the Pulps Vol. One […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 23 April 2022
Saturday , 23, April 2022 Uncategorized Leave a commentAgainst All Odds (Grimm’s War #1) – Jeffery Haskell The wrong crew. The wrong ship. The right Captain. Idealistic navy lieutenant Jacob Grimm just wanted to honor his mother’s sacrifice in the last great war. When he’s forced to return fire and destroy a squadron of ships to save his own, he thinks he’s the […]
One of Robert E. Howard’s epic historical poems is “An Echo From the Iron Harp.” The poem gained some wide exposure as “The Gold and the Grey” included by Glenn Lord in The Book of Robert E. Howard (Zebra Books) in 1976. According to the Howardworks website, Glenn gave the poem the title as “The […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 26 March 2022
Saturday , 26, March 2022 Uncategorized Leave a commentNext week’s SFF New Release will be postponed to 5 April 2022. Blessed Time 3: Dakkora’s Legacy – Cale Plamann A New Threat Arises, And Time Itself May Not Be Enough Retirement or polite exile. Whatever you want to call it, it had been kind to Micah Silver. He had saved his home of Basil’s […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 03 April, 2021
Saturday , 3, April 2021 Uncategorized Leave a commentFantasyland meets Army Rangers, space elves lie, and the Wild West gets strange in this week’s new releases. Bedlam (Dragon Wars #16) – Craig Halloran Blind-sided by the enemy is one thing, but side-blinded by your own cuts twice as deep. The mission is simple, lay low until the time to reveal themselves comes, but […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 19 December, 2020
Saturday , 19, December 2020 Uncategorized 1 CommentDungeon cores, mecha designs, magic-crushing assassins, and sticky-fingered sorceresses fill this week’s new releases. Combat Frame XSeed: Illustrated Combat Frame Tech Guide – Brian Niemeier The future is over. Yet weapons technology marches on, reaching its pinnacle in the mighty combat frame! The Combat Frame XSeed saga chronicles the battles waged by these and other […]