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sIt’s been a good long while since the first expansion to GMT’s Space Empires: 4X rolled out. But here we are with a whole ‘nother box of awesome for the best Space Game on the market. What’s inside? Four new reference charts because the build options and tech tree have received yet another iteration. New […]
A Second Excerpt from THE PROMETHEAN
Wednesday , 7, March 2018 Fiction, Publications Leave a commentWhen American billionaire Henry Hockenheimer discovers that conquering the corporate world is no longer enough for him on the eve of his 40th birthday, he decides to leave his mark on the world by creating the first Superman, a robot as intellectually brilliant as it is physically capable. But his ideas are thwarted on every […]
For readers who want exciting tales of daring heroes up against impossible odds in exotic settings, the seventh issue of Cirsova: Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction is now hot off the press. Featuring: Novella In the Land of Hungry Shadows, by Adrian Cole Short Stories Galactic Gamble, by Dominika Lein The Iynx, by Michael Reyes […]
Every so often I find myself doing something completely inexplicable and retroactively justifying it to myself by saying “Well, maybe I can write about it for Castalia House.” Seriously, why CH hasn’t fired me yet, I have no idea. So how about that Red vs. Blue, huh? Red vs. Blue—RvB for short—is, or was, a […]
Arkhaven New Release: RIGHT HO, JEEVES: HUNGRY HEARTS
Monday , 5, March 2018 Comics, News, Publications 3 CommentsHUNGRY HEARTS is the second issue in the RIGHT HO, JEEVES series, which tells of the travails of the inimitable Bertie Wooster, who is summoned from the comforts of #3A Berkley Mansions, London to Brinkley Manor by his imperious Aunt Dahlia. Love is in the air and Wodehousian shenanigans are afoot, as Wooster’s well-meaning attempts to […]
Sensor Sweep: Sax Rohmer, Fighting Men, Tolkien, Arthur Machen, and Threads of Fate
Monday , 5, March 2018 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsPulps (Pulp Archivist): “In an attempt to show the wider context of the changes in 1940s literature and how they may have affected Campbell and science fiction, let’s take a look at Doc Savage, the Shadow, and Babette Rosmond. The pulps were dying by inches during the Forties and the reading audience, cynical after another […]
I came across this article about men’s fiction that men account of 20% of fiction sales. I found a Publisher’s Weekly article on Hot and Cold Book Categories of 2015. That article showed a 12% decline in science fiction and fantasy from 2014 to 2015. I have been reading science fiction and later fantasy since […]
Subject Knowledge is Important in Science Fiction, Too!
Saturday , 3, March 2018 Appendix N, Authors, Fiction, Uncategorized 25 CommentsOne of the appeals of writing science fiction is that it doesn’t have to be tethered to anything in our current world. Presumably then, one doesn’t have to do any research or have any prior knowledge in coming up with a fictional society, planet, or universe. Forget having to spend months of research to write […]
New Release Roundup: Science Fiction, 3 March 2018
Saturday , 3, March 2018 Just Released Leave a commentCharacters from seven bestselling novels meet in a bar, an accident leaves a cruise liner stranded in hyperspace, and assassins rock the the halls of the Lords of Creation in this week’s roundup of the newest releases in science fiction. Assassin (The Four Horsemen Cycle #11) – Kacey Ezell and Marisa Wolf Depik. The race […]
Short Reviews – Savage Galahad, by Bryce Walton
Friday , 2, March 2018 Uncategorized Leave a commentSavage Galahad by Bryce Walton appeared in the Winter 1946 issue of Planet Stories. It can be read here at Archive.org. One of the occasional trope you’ll see in the pulps is a story from the Bug-Eyed Monster’s perspective. This can often be played for laughs, but even when it is, such as in the […]
Dark Legion Comics: REBEL DEAD REVENGE: SATAN’S ARMY
Thursday , 1, March 2018 Comics, News, Publications Leave a commentThe Devil is raising an army! To the horror of his loyal servant, Jim, Confederate general Stonewall Jackson has been summoned back from the grave to lead Satan’s army of ravenous undead. But the great general’s arm is missing, and only Jim knows where it might be. He doesn’t know why Satan needs it, but […]
New Release Spotlight: THE DEAN DIED OVER WINTER BREAK
Thursday , 1, March 2018 Just Released Leave a commentWinter break is normally a peaceful time at the university, especially during a blizzard. So it shocked everyone when they found the dean murdered at his desk. Thanks to an empty campus, there are no witnesses and police have little to go on. With the police stymied, and hoping to wrap up the investigation before […]