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sIn the opening moments of Black Dawn, by Jay Allan, the remnants of the once-proud White Fleet are leading the far superior ships of the Hegemony on a wild goose chase through unexplored space. The longer they can prolong the pursuit, the more time Admiral Tyler Barron has to rally the Confederation’s defenses before the […]
The eight volume of Jay Allan’s Blood on the Stars follows a rag-tag fleet buying time in the unknown reaches of space so that a war hero can rally the defenses back home. War is coming, darker and more terrible than any that have come before. The Hegemony is coming to impose its brutal system […]
Castalia House New Release: SUPERLUMINARY: THE WORLD ARMADA
Tuesday , 3, July 2018 Fiction, Just Released, News Leave a commentCastalia House is extremely pleased to announce that SUPERLUMINARY: THE WORLD ARMADA by John C. Wright is now available for Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. Although the Lords of Creation survived the awesome onslaught of the world-killing space vampires, there is nowhere in the lifeless galaxy that they can hope to hide their planets and people forever. How […]
DC Comics is about to learn an expensive lesson: never f*** over the fans. Yesterday the New York Times posted a thorough preview of the upcoming Batman #50, the issue wherein Batman and Catwoman are supposed to get married. The article spoils pretty much everything about the comic, up to and including the “let’s spit […]
Sensor Sweep: Ray Capella, Queen of Communist Cannibals, H. Rider Haggard
Monday , 2, July 2018 Sensor Sweep 4 CommentsWriters (Pulp Hermit): Ray Capella- From Alhambra, California, Ray was a noted illustrator for a number of SF & Fantasy journals before coming over to the Fading Shadows magazines. He contributed a lot of interior and cover art for our SF titles, as well as illustrating heroic characters like Doc Savage and The Shadow. But […]
Harlan Ellison died this past Thursday, apparently in his sleep, at age 84. I had just read a few weeks earlier that he had a stroke and was not in good health. I first became aware of him as our little library had a book called Living in Fear: A History of Horror in the […]