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sCastalia House blog has a new columnist on board: Forrest Bishop. And let me tell you, he’s about to serve up some really WEIRD stuff for ya. I mean really weird!! In fact you can tell this is crazy weird just by the reactions to his first piece. People don’t quite know what to make […]
JUST RELEASED: The Cosmic City (The Stolen Future Book 3) by Brian K. Lowe
Saturday , 4, March 2017 Just Released 1 CommentIn the conclusion to The Stolen Future trilogy, Keryl Clee finds himself at the center of a crisis which could mean the destruction not only on Earth, but of Time itself. Hostages of a time-traveling madman who is creating an army from the past to conquer the world of the future, before Clee and Lady […]
Before the Pulp Revolution: The Mountain Who Writes!
Saturday , 4, March 2017 Pulp Revolution 7 CommentsThere are two kinds of people in the world: the desperately lonely and benighted souls who drift through life unsatisfied and unhappy, and those who read Larry Correia. Larry isn’t part of the Pulp Revolution, and I’d bet money he’s never heard of Cirsova magazine (or even Appendix N), but his writing definitely prefigured the Pulp […]
Rampant Coyote has yet another account of how what he’d heard about the pulps just didn’t stack up to his own reading experiences: As I first started digging into the history of the pulps, the story I heard was that these were a training ground for genre fiction writers. They got their start in the […]
Short Reviews – The Moon that Vanished, by Leigh Brackett
Friday , 3, March 2017 Uncategorized 31 CommentsThe Moon that Vanished by Leigh Brackett appeared in the October 1948 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories. It can be read online here. “They say that Venus once had a moon. It rode in the clouds like a disc of fire and the god who dwelt within it was supreme over all the other gods. […]
Tom Kratman, Vox, Amazon Best-Selling Scfi author Richard Fox, and myself, have been collaborating on the Secession of California. I mean the timeline for such a fictional event… should it ever happen, and how we would WarFight it. We went through and pulled all your comments on the possible timeline, events and craziness, that could […]
THROWBACK SF THURSDAY: Martians Abroad by Carrie Vaughn
Thursday , 2, March 2017 Book Review 12 CommentsTwo weeks ago I reviewed Have Space Suit—Will Travel, my first Heinlein juvenile. I bought, picked it, and read it a bit ago. The review wound up being very well timed. A YA book imitating the Heinlein juveniles was released on January 17—Martians Abroad by Carrie Vaughn. I read a longish blog post a couple […]
Henshin! (A brief history of Japanese SF – Part 3 of 3)
Thursday , 2, March 2017 Uncategorized 13 CommentsLast time, in Denki Jidai, we followed the transformation of Japanese genre fiction through what might be seen as a kind of “industrial revolution” – from the Meiji era on, Japan was absorbing and adapting Western technologies and ideas at a breakneck pace, and by the 1920s and 1930s hunger to catch up with the […]
Sometimes you go to get your truck back, and end up shaking the pillars of Heaven. Hey, it happens, even if you didn’t mean it to. It happened to me.
Why Cultural Criticism is Indefensible
Thursday , 2, March 2017 Jeffro Comment 57 Comments“My own politics are on the progressive side and they influence my writing. My concerns when writing a Cthulhu novel weren’t whether or not I should shun HPL’s creations: I don’t think that at all since if I’m going to do that then the literature of the past 2000 years is going to be a […]