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sWe take a break from our regularly scheduled review of old pulp stories to tell you about some new stories you may want to check out! The Spring issue of the All-New Cirsova Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense is out now! The big star of the spring issue, of course, is the brand-new […]
Sensor Sweep: Dime Detective, Jules Verne, Warhammer, Galactic Patrol, Rambo!
Monday , 11, March 2019 Uncategorized 4 CommentsScience Fiction Fandom (Wastland and Sky): At last we reach the end of this series. It’s been quite a ride! We’ve gone through the development of genre fiction from the early Gothic Horror days up until the then-current New Wave movement and everything in between. For such a straightforward book it has certainly gone all […]
My last trip to a used bookstore contained a surprise. While going through the general fiction section, I came across a copy of Gustav Hasford’s The Short-Timers, first paperback edition. I belong to a men’s adventure paperback group on social media and this book has been mentioned as not a an easy one to find. […]
Chief Warrant Officer Graven Tower is a ruggedly handsome military policeman who hates aliens. Fortunately, as a member of His Grace’s Military Crimes Investigation Division – Xenocriminology and Alien Relations, he gets to arrest a lot of them. Sometimes he even gets to shoot them. Chief Tower and Detector Derin Hildreth of the Trans Paradis […]
Previously, I discussed Asimov’s three kinds of science fiction: gadget, adventure, and social. And while the trio of gimmick, social, and adventure science fictions better describes the wild and woolly mess of science fiction than the binary set of hard and soft science fiction, new sub-genres have cropped up that don’t quite match the categories Asimov […]
Time traveling dead men, alien misfits, intergalactic spies, and mecha mercs feature in this week’s roundup of the newest releases in science fiction. Andromeda Rising (Blood on the Stars: The Andromeda Chronicles #1) – Jay Allan Among the millions born into misery, poverty, and despair under the dark and smoky haze that covers the planet, […]
Short Reviews – United We Stand, by Mack Reynolds
Friday , 8, March 2019 Uncategorized Leave a commentUnited We Stand, by Mack Reynolds, appeared in the May 1950 issue of Amazing Stories. It can be read here at archive.org. United We Stand is an experimental story told almost entirely in the form of short news-clippings, excerpts of speeches, and broadcast transcripts. Think Dracula, only each excerpt is a paragraph or two instead […]
The sixth issue in the revolutionary Alt-Hero series is now available in print. Limited edition gold logo editions are now available from Castalia Direct. Hell hath no fury like a superhero humiliated in public. After the debacle at the Eiffel Tower, Captain Europa is determined to hunt down the renegade superhumans who embarrassed him in front […]
Sensor Sweep: August Derleth, Mack Bolan, Fandom History, Bill Crider Prize
Monday , 4, March 2019 Sensor Sweep 4 CommentsAuthors (DMR Books): One thing that A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos really clarified for me was just how much impact Derleth and his publishing business, Arkham House, had on the weird fiction scene from 1939 to 1971. Arkham House didn’t just publish HPL in fine hardcovers and keep his name and works in front […]
A few weeks back, I mentioned that I had the anthology, Skull Full of Spurs on the way. It was the last of the weird western anthologies for me to read. I read it in a week which is a good speed with my schedule these days. Details: Published by Dark Highway Press in 2000. […]
New Release Roundup, 2 March 2019: Fantasy and Adventure
Saturday , 2, March 2019 Just Released Leave a commentArthur returns, samurai clash with cultivator mages, and fourteen authors roll the dice on famous battles in this week’s roundup of the newest releases in fantasy and adventure. Arthur Dux Bellorum (A Light in the Dark Ages #4) – Tim Walker From the ruins of post-Roman Britain, a warrior arises to unite a troubled land. […]
Short Reviews – The Psyche Steps Out, by Gerald Vance*
Friday , 1, March 2019 Uncategorized Leave a commentThe Psyche Steps Out was published in the May 1950 issue of Amazing Stories. Though attributed to the Ziff-Davis house-name “Gerald Vance”, its author is unknown. It can be read here at Archive.org. Look. The “[Pulp Story] is Isekai” meme is getting worn out. I’m tired of it. But dammit, sometimes a story hits all […]