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sAVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER: The LawDog Files: African Adventures
Friday , 21, July 2017 News, Promotions Leave a commentPre-order part two of the best selling LawDog Files here. LawDog had the honor of representing law and order in the Texas town of Bugscuffle as a Sheriff’s Deputy, where he became notorious for, among other things, the famous Case of the Pink Gorilla Suit. But long before he put on the deputy’s star, he […]
Short Reviews – The Stratosphere Menace, by Ralph Milne Farley
Friday , 21, July 2017 Uncategorized 8 CommentsThe Stratosphere Menace by Ralph Milne Farley appeared in the March 1939 issue of Weird Tales. A scanned pdf of this issue can be found here at Luminist.org. This story presented a bit of a quandary for me. Though I’m building my familiarity with the pulps slowly but surely, I’m still sometimes caught out by a story like […]
THROWBACK SF THURSDAY: Robert E. Howard Was the Texan Tolkien
Thursday , 20, July 2017 Appendix N 17 CommentsThe Conquering Sword of Conan is the final volume in Del Rey’s three-volume collection of every Robert E. Howard Conan story. I wrote about the second volume, and how Robert E. Howard wrote like Hank Williams sang, over at Every Day Should Be Tuesday. Gregory Manchess provides the illustrations for this volume, and they may […]
ON THE TABLE: Honest to Goodness Classic Traveller
Thursday , 20, July 2017 Tabletop Games, Traveller 5 CommentsHow role-playing campaigns finally click together is kind of a strange thing to begin with. This one, being a relatively rare “by the book” Traveller game is maybe a little more unusual. And the game in those original three Little Black Books is without a doubt a wide open sandbox campaign by default. Given that […]
Earlier this week, on Sunday, July 15, George Romero passed away at the venerable age of 77. Alternately ridiculed as a low-budget B movie that leans too heavily on sometimes ridiculous stock footage and lauded as a brilliant cult classic – as a number of media outlets have already commented – it’s hard to exaggerate […]
The third book in B. V. Larson’s Rebel Fleet series. The Imperials have devised a cunning new method of destroying Rebel worlds. Captain Leo Blake is largely responsible for both our survival and our current predicament. He and his crew are infamous among the stars. As a result, when ships of an unknown configuration begin […]
Guest Post by Lewis Pulsipher: A Historian’s Defense of The Last Kingdom
Wednesday , 19, July 2017 Uncategorized 54 CommentsI rarely read historical novels, though I was educated as an historian. Britannia-playing friends introduced me to Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon novels, about a part of the era my game Britannia covers. They were so good that I have tried some of his other medieval novels, though never his Sharp’s Rifles novels (Napoleonic Era) that have […]
SUPERVERSIVE: “Breaking Bad” is Superversive, and no, that’s not a typo
Tuesday , 18, July 2017 Superversive 12 CommentsYou know, all the time, I see a lot of guys on the pulp rev side of the crowd express confusion about what superversive is supposed to be. Some go as far as to say that we’re being inconsistent or don’t have a clear idea. I’ve even seen some say that it’s not possible to […]
Guest Post by Yakov Merkin: The Dark Side of “Badass” Women
Tuesday , 18, July 2017 Movies 27 CommentsA week or so ago, I saw the official Star Wars Twitter account share a poll, asking which character fans were most excited to see in the upcoming Forces of Destiny series of animated shorts, which, incidentally, reminding me that it even existed—I’d heard a mention of it a while back, but had completely forgotten. […]
The newest Four Hoursemen novel by Mark Wandrey arrives. For more than a century, Winged Hussars has been the richest of Earth’s mercenary companies, as well as the only one to specialize in space warfare. Led by Alexis Cromwell, they have carved out a reputation in the galaxy for being dependable, unflappable, and lethally efficient. […]
Look, it’s really hard to get passionate about just okay stuff. With great stuff, you can tell people “WATCH THIS NOW OR YOU’LL MISS OUT ON THE GREATEST THING EVER!”, and with bad stuff you can tell people “DON’T EVER READ THIS EVER OR YOUR CHILDREN’S CHILDREN WILL BE WEEPING TEARS OF BLOOD THEIR ENTIRE […]
SENSOR SWEEP: Gothic Roots, Missing Masterpieces, Lithe Dancing-girls, and Gender-ambiguous Names
Monday , 17, July 2017 Sensor Sweep 29 CommentsAppendix N (Cirsova) Reviews on Issue 5, CL Moore & Hugos — “I’d read some Moore, but I’m just now getting around this classic anthology edited by Lester Del Ray. I was left a bit unimpressed by her collab with Kuttner on The Last Citadel, but I gave the grande dame another chance when I […]