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This is the current list of all books presently published by Castalia House: Science Fiction and Military Science Fiction Awake in the Night Land by John C. Wright City Beyond Time: Tales of the Fall of Metachronopolis by John C. Wright Somewhither: A Tale of the Unwithering Realm by John C. Wright Back From the […]
The Black Friday 1+1 sale was so successful that we’ve decided to do it again, only this time there is no limit on the number of ebooks you can get. If you buy 20 Castalia print editions, we’ll send you the 20 different ebooks you want. The only caveats are: The print sales have to […]
Future Skirmish, Part 1: The Closing of the American Frontier
Friday , 21, August 2015 Uncategorized 2 CommentsThe “Closing of the American West” was initially marked at about 1890 or so, when a historian noted that the U.S. Census had measured non-Native populations in pretty much all locations that had been considered “The American Desert” prior to the Civil War. It is an important idea, as the U.S. Frontier is almost entirely […]
Tags are useful, but incomplete. To help you (and me) keep track of some of the ongoing themes, issues and analysis in science fiction, I present this partial and ongoing index. I will update and link back to it whenever it is appropriate: Decline and Fall of Science Fiction Chatter Before the Coup: 1991 in […]
To say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. ~Terry Pratchett …Good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. ~Albert Camus War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ~George Orwell The term […]
A Very Brief History of Military Science Fiction
Wednesday , 17, December 2014 Uncategorized 6 CommentsThe air is full of rumours of War. The European nations stand fully armed and prepared for instant mobilisation. Authorities are agreed that a GREAT WAR must break out in the immediate future , and this war will be fought under novel and surprising conditions. All the facts seem to indicate that the coming conflict […]
The complete set of all four books for the Astronomy & Astrophysics course. Also includes bonus astronomy-related science fiction novel, the Castalia Classic First on the Moon by Jeff Sutton. Astronomy & Astrophysics: Instructor’s Guide Astronomy & Astrophysics: Activity & Lab Book Astronomy & Astrophysics: Examinations Book Astronomy & Astrophysics: Biblical Supplement First on […]
Cowardice is all too common within me, so know that when I write of cowardice, it is not as a judge of men, but as man’s flawed ally against it. I want to be clear about that, before I write this: Damon Knight was a coward, when he could have been a Grandmaster. Setting aside […]
Castalia House was created to publish books that are written in a manner that is respectful and appreciative of the classic canons of science fiction and fantasy. But thanks to the movement of most of the mainstream SF publishers away from those canons, and also to the vagaries of the publishing business, many of classic […]
Castalia House is dedicated to the revival of classic science fiction and fantasy. The second book in the Castalia House Classics line is the 1958 novel First on the Moon, by Jeff Sutton. Written by a man who was very well-informed about the U.S. space program, it is an exciting tale of what might have […]
Castalia House is dedicated to the revival of classic science fiction and fantasy. The first book in the Castalia House Classics line is the 1968 novel The Programmed Man, by Jeff and Jean Sutton. A particular favorite of several of our editors, it is a Atomic Age juvenile novel that is an intriguing intergalactic military […]
H. Beam Piper — a man so versed in science he could sketch out, on a napkin, an engineering model of Sputnik the day it was announced, and explain it to a table of science enthusiasts — quit near-future science fiction. He did it because the scientific advances of the 1950s were coming so quickly […]