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sEsteban Maroto (b. 1942) was part of the “Spanish Invasion” of comic book artists in the early 1970s. He started in the 1960s in his native Spain. He had been published in the U.K. and then in the U.S. Warren Magazines reprinted the first six issues of New English Library’s Dracula series. Maroto did both […]
AN EQUATION OF ALMOST INFINITE COMPLEXITY, Now in Paperback
Saturday , 23, December 2017 News, Publications Leave a commentWhen the devil moves in next door to Cooper Smith Cooper’s house, Cooper doesn’t know what to make of him at first. But when the unexpectedly neighborly Scratch helps the unemployed actuary find a job at a local insurance company with the help of some inside information into the activities of Death, Cooper decides the […]
More Proof Hollywood Spits at Heroism And Adventure: Castlevania
Saturday , 23, December 2017 Movies 42 CommentsAs I was reading Jasyn’s outstanding review of The Last Jedi, I kept thinking how much it applied to another 2017 production I watched last week. Namely, the Netflix-produced miniseries of Castlevania. For those unfamiliar with the property, it’s a series of video games, beginning in 1987 and continuing to the present, which follow a […]
Brian Niemeier is a best-selling science fiction author and a John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer finalist. His second book, Souldancer, won the first ever Dragon Award for Best Horror Novel. He chose to pursue a writing career despite formal training in history and theology. His journey toward publication began at the behest of his long-suffering […]
Science Fiction New Release Roundup: 23 December 2017
Saturday , 23, December 2017 Fiction Leave a commentThis week’s roundup of the newest releases in science fiction features a jailbreak by the battle-hardened legionnaires of Victory Company, an uneasy alliance between galactic bounty hunters, alien relics under Earth’s ice-caps, and a vicious insurgency against the immortal rulers of a wound-down universe. * * * * […]
It is an eerie thing to reread the half-forgotten stories treasured in one’s youth. For better or worse, the hold haunts never look the same. The worse happens when eyes grown cynical with age will see tinsel and rubbish where once glamor gleamed as fresh and expectant as the sunrise in the Garden of Eden. […]
Short Reviews – Three Lines of Old French, by A. Merritt
Friday , 22, December 2017 Uncategorized 7 CommentsThree Lines of Old French by A. Merritt originally appeared in the August 9, 1919 issue of All-Story Weekly. It was reprinted in the February, 1950 issue of A. Merritt’s Fantasy Magazine, and can be read here from Archive.org. AMFM Follows up The Smoking Land with the A. Merritt short story “Three Lines of Old […]
Dragon Award winner Brian Niemeier’s groundbreaking Soul Cycle reaches its startling conclusion in THE OPHIAN RISING, the highly anticipated sequel to The Secret Kings. The Zadokim healed the cosmos from the ravages of the Cataclysm, and the survivors made them kings. Now the Ophians, a ruthless insurgent movement, wage a vicious uprising against their immortal […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Uther Pendragon sires a secret son and with his last breath sticks his sword into a rock and proclaims it a test to determine who shall inherit his crown. Arthur yoinks the sword, founds Camelot with its Knights of the Round Table, saves Britain from multiple threats, […]
WARGAME WEDNESDAY: Avalon Hill’s The Battle of the Bulge (1981) – Part III
Wednesday , 20, December 2017 Wargames 2 CommentsPlay 2 | Allies –Me/Axis – Dad | Outcome – Allied Strategic Victory (marginal game victory on points) This playthru we used the following: No roll for Paratroopers No roll for 150 Commando 2x SS Panzer Divisions can participate in morning Blitz Forgotten/unobserved Die-roll shift for forts, 1st half of game Planes cannot offset The […]
The thrilling sequel to Russell Newquist’s WAR DEMONS. There’s a dragon in the church. After modern day paladin Peter Bishop and his friend Michael defeated the dragon over the skies of Athens, Georgia, it fled to Europe – with Peter’s girlfriend Faith in tow. Well, she’s a girl. And she’s his friend. And her stunning […]
Superversive Review: Star Trek Discovery, Season 0.5
Tuesday , 19, December 2017 Uncategorized 9 CommentsIt’s basically a given at this point that any entry in a long running franchise is going to generate a lot of emotional turmoil. Some of us are happy to return to a beloved universe. Some of us are angry that people would dare. Most of us are afraid of how they’re going to screw […]