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sNow in Audiobooks: APPENDIX N
Sunday , 21, January 2018 Appendix N, News, Publications Leave a commentAppendix N: The Literary History of Dungeons & Dragons is a detailed and comprehensive investigation of the various works of science fiction and fantasy that game designer Gary Gygax declared to be the primary influences on his seminal role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. It is a deep intellectual dive into the literature of SF/F’s past that […]
Urban Fantasy/Science Fiction: Lazy Gimmick or Legitimate Genre?
Saturday , 20, January 2018 Authors, Fiction 12 CommentsTyping “Urban Fantasy” into Google results in 7.7 million results, dozens of Wiki articles, and a slew of book recommendations, many with covers that call to mind late 90’s schlock like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. (I can hear the furious typing already…) Now, I don’t pretend to have read every popular work classified as “urban fantasy”, especially […]
Now that we’ve got several scripts done, it is clear that CHUCK DIXON’S AVALON is really going to be very different than the Alt★Hero comics proper. Whereas Vox Day likes to focus on worldbuilding and city-level events of international significance, Chuck prefers to go street. He’s focused on citybuilding, crime-fighting, and street-level events, and while the city of […]
Science Fiction New Release Roundup: 20 January 2018
Saturday , 20, January 2018 Just Released 1 CommentThis week’s roundup of the newest release in science fiction features a daring interstellar raid against an ancient superweapon, a time-lost crew of scientists forced to build a spaceship in Viking Europe, an Emperor’s struggle to find a long-lost temple full of supernatural secrets, and more. Dauntless (Blood on the Stars #6) – Jay Allan […]
From Hugo and Dragon Award finalist David VanDyke, and million-selling science-fiction legend and Dragon finalist B.V. Larson, comes book three in the epic military space opera adventure saga! Commodore Straker faces new enemies as neighboring interstellar empires decide his New Republic is a growing threat. A two-front war develops, and the Liberator must face both […]
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. In The LawDog Files, he chronicles his official encounters with everything from naked bikers, combative eco-warriors, suicidal drunks, respectful methheads, […]
Tepondicon by Carl Jacobi appeared in the Winter 1946 issue of Planet Stories. It can be read here at Archive.org. A great empire on Ganymede has fallen. Its last emperor has placed a curse on its seven cities, riddling each with a horrible plague. The people of these cities revel and debauch in their wretched […]
‘There are girls here now, in this building, so much lovelier than I that I am humbled to think of them. No mortal man has ever seen them, except the Alendar, and he— is not wholly mortal. No mortal man will ever see them. They are not for sale. Eventually they will disappear. ‘But the […]
Superversive Press launches the first of the new Planetary anthology series combining science and mythology: MERCURY! Innermost of worlds, blasted by the sun by day and frozen by night, Mercury remains an enigma. Mythical Mercury was also the messenger and trickster, and known for blazing speed and wit. Here are thirteen tales of science-fiction and […]
(An updated reprint of an article on an old blog. Since then I have beaten the Elite Four and caught Mewtwo…who is insanely overpowered, by the way). I have always said that I will maintain until the day I die that generations 1 through 3 of Pokemon are legitimately great games. Of course, it’s hard […]
New Release Spotlight: THE DREAM OF THE IRON DRAGON
Tuesday , 16, January 2018 Just Released 2 CommentsThe first in a new trilogy by Rob Kroese, the author of Starship Grifters. It is the year 2207. After a decades-long war with an alien race known as the Cho-ta’an, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable and the human race has been driven to the brink of extinction. Humanity survives in a handful of colonies […]
Richard Fox, the Dragon Award-winning author of the bestselling science fiction series THE EMBER WAR SAGA, has an announcement. Exciting news! The Ember War will come to a comic store near you! The contract with the comic imprint (either Dark Legion or Arkhaven, publisher’s choice) and fellow writer Jon Del Arroz (who’ll do the prose to […]