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sCastalia House New Release: VESSEL OF VENUS
Monday , 17, September 2018 Just Released Leave a commentCastalia House is pleased to announce Richard Cain’s latest book, VESSEL OF VENUS, the second in the Diary of an Ex-Angel series. Mark is a down-and-out IT professional with a secret. When he discovers a sorcery app that gives him incredible powers, he sets out to win his ex-girlfriend’s love and start a new life – […]
Sensor Sweep: Fake Movie Wisdom, Dashiell Hammett, Louis L’amour, Dragoncon
Monday , 17, September 2018 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsPulps (Pulp Flakes): When Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic in 1927 the publishers rushed into print with tales of flying adventures. Jack Kelly, publisher of Fiction House which included such pulps as Lariat, Action Stories and Northwest Stories, launched Air Stories and Wings in such a hurry that he wired me to write a novelet […]
If you’d like to get an early look at several Alt★Hero-related covers, Bounding Into Comics has them, as well as early descriptions of AH:Q #1 and AH#6. And if you haven’t backed AH:Q yet, we’re entirely confident that you’re going to want to do so. In addition to the progress we’re making on the production front, there are […]
My haul from the library book sale in June included a good amount of late Campbell era Analog magazine reprints with John Dalmas, Gordon R. Dickson, and Jerry Pournelle. I had read Jerry Pournelle’s The Mercenary in the late 1980s and remember liking it. I had read the first two books in the Janissaries series. […]
New Release Roundup, 15 September 2018: Fantasy and Adventure
Saturday , 15, September 2018 Just Released Leave a commentVictorian detectives, magical girls, superheroes, and half-orc henchmen fill this week’s roundup of the newest releases in fantasy and adventure. The Atlantis Cipher (The Relic Hunters #2) – David Leadbeater A lost world. An ancient code. A deadly chase. Five ancient statues have been unearthed in South America, each containing a mysterious coded message hinting […]
Arkhaven New Release: CHUCK DIXON’S AVALON #2
Saturday , 15, September 2018 Comics, Just Released, News Leave a commentArkhaven Comics is proud to announce the release of the digital edition of CHUCK DIXON’S AVALON #2: RULEBREAKER. Kindle and CBZ editions have already been sent out to Alt★Hero campaign backers. Detective Ben Church is hot on the heels of the vigilante who murdered a city councilman in broad daylight. But agents of the UN Superhuman Protection […]
Short Reviews – Gulf (Part 2 of 2), by Robert Heinlein
Friday , 14, September 2018 Uncategorized 7 CommentsThe second installment of Gulf by Robert Heinlein appeared in the December 1949 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It can be read here at Archive.org. Robert Heinlein’s Spy-Fi thriller, Gulf, showed so much promise before sinking into the Campbellian morass of dull thinkery. Whereas Part 1 featured covert cat & mouse action, high stakes interrogation, and a […]
4D Warfare: A Doctrine for a New Generation of Politics is a revolutionary guide to applying the basic principles of military intelligence to social media, written by a proven master of the information space. In 4D Warfare, author Jack Posobiec explains how the social media narrative is established and how it is influenced over time […]
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It has become common around certain parts of the Castalia House blog to blame John Campbell and his clique of writers for many of the long-standing evils affecting the genre of science fiction. But as the crazy years of the 1970s showed, Campbell has no monopoly on the ruin of the genre. He wasn’t even the first […]
Seabury Quinn, A Lesser Light that Still Shines for Those Who Care To Look
Wednesday , 12, September 2018 Pulp Revolution 9 CommentsFlipping through the bright and evocative covers of old pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, the name Seabury Quinn pops up with a regularity at odds with his current place in the annals of fantasy and science fiction. His stories of occult mystery served as excellent source material to inspire the sort of titillating eye […]
Castalia House New Release: 4D WARFARE by Jack Posobiec
Monday , 10, September 2018 Just Released, News 1 CommentCastalia House is very pleased to announce the publication of 4D WARFARE: A Doctrine for a New Generation of Politics by Jack Posobiec. 4D Warfare: A Doctrine for a New Generation of Politics is a revolutionary guide to applying the basic principles of military intelligence to social media, written by a proven master of the information space. […]