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sSensor Sweep: D&D Community, Light novels, Zoe Quinn Comics, 1940
Monday , 11, June 2018 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsRPG (RPG Pundit): So my cat got in the way of my latest video; but the overall point is still clear (and slightly cuter, thanks to the cat): there’s no such thing as a real “D&D Community”. There’s a D&D Hobby, but the notion of a “Community” is a combination of a marketing tactic by […]
There has been a quiet rebirth in the historical novel in the past 15 years– Bernard Cornwell, Simon Scarrow, Ben Kane, Harry Sidebottom etc. Most are Sassenachs (i.e. Englishmen) who have a Roman fixation. I picked up David Gibbins Rome Destroy Carthage at a Dollar General store last week for $3.00 in the paperback rack. […]
New Release Roundup, 9 June 2018: Science Fiction
Saturday , 9, June 2018 Just Released Leave a commentMecha knights, space vampires, and the Sheik of Mars feature in this week’s roundup of the newest releases in science fiction. Earth Unknown (Forgotten Earth #1) – M. R. Forbes Centurion Space Force pilot Nathan Stacker didn’t expect to return home to find his wife dead. He didn’t expect the murderer to look just like him, […]
This may very well be the greatest audiobook ever produced. I’m not kidding. It’s right up there with Douglas Adams reading his own The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. Owen Stanley’s satirical novel is brilliant, of course, alternating between darkly and ridiculously funny, but Gabrielle Miller’s narration, in her unique Australian accent, takes it to […]
Cold War, by Kris Neville, appeared in the October 1949 issue of Astounding. It can be read at Archive.org here. A President has a conversation! A hard-nosed journalist is briefly introduced and just as quickly dispatched! The dark secret the conversation was about and the journalist was killed for is revealed in another conversation! Cold […]
The fourth book in the Dragon Award-winning Terran Armor Corps by Richard Fox charges forth. A crisis grows in the heart of the Terran Union, one that threatens to tear the Iron Dragoons apart. When Roland and his lance rescue an Ibarra crew from a Kesaht attack, those saved become a pawn in a conspiracy […]
The Lords of Creation have learned that although they rule the solar system with their god-like scientific knowledge, there are even more powerful forces to be feared lurking out in the dark depths of space. The vampiric necroforms are a massive empire of anti-life, terrible beyond all imagining, ruling a vast network of dead stars […]
Imagine an alt-history world where the United States of America consisted of a filthy, disease-ridden hell-hole ruled by vicious devil-worshipping psychopaths. Go ahead and write your own joke. I’ll wait. Got that out of your system? Good. Because if you made the joke that I think you did, have I got a book for you. The Devil’s […]
SUPERVERSIVE: Mumen Rider is the key to “One Punch Man”
Tuesday , 5, June 2018 Superversive 5 CommentsI recently watched “One Punch Man”, an excellent new(ish) comedy/superhero anime that you can currently find on Netflix (though only in sub, which may matter to some people, though I still liked it). It’s a very good show, funny, clever, amazingly well animated and with an absolutely stellar soundtrack, probably my second favorite in an […]
For readers who want exciting tales of daring heroes up against impossible odds in exotic settings, the eight issue of Cirsova: Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction is now hot off the press. This issue of the acclaimed fantasy and science fiction magazine features: Novelettes “Slavers of Venus,” by Nathan Dabney “Promontory,” by Jon Zaremba Short Stories “Littermates” […]
Castalia House New Release: SUPERLUMINARY: THE SPACE VAMPIRES
Tuesday , 5, June 2018 Just Released, News 1 CommentCastalia House is very pleased to announce the publication of Superluminary: The Space Vampires by science fiction grandmaster John C. Wright. The Lords of Creation have learned that although they rule the solar system with their god-like scientific knowledge, there are even more powerful forces to be feared lurking out in the dark depths of space. The […]
Solo, Sanders, Scandanavian Revenants, Comics Scandals, and SocJus Cataclysm: It’s a Potpourri Episode!
Monday , 4, June 2018 Comics, Movies 4 CommentsWith nothing big enough to be worth spending an entire column talking about, it’s time for a potpourri episode! # Solo, a Star Wars Story, failed in large extent because the writer was trying to force together four different genres—genres with different character archetypes, incompatible visual styles, and above all, wildly differing pacing—into one movie. […]