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sSensor Sweep: Crusher Joe, Diana Rigg, Black Ops Cold War, Ambrose Bierce
Monday , 14, September 2020 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentForthcoming (Cirsova): We’ve just received Schuyler Hernstrom’s foreword for Endless Summer, and we thought it was too good not to share: Discussing stories is a complicated business. Buried somewhere underneath layers of criticism, commerce, and identity you might find some deep understanding of Misha’s work. But I worry that careless digging will disturb the landscape. […]
I received word a little over a week ago that Charles R. Saunders had died back in May. I first heard of Charles Saunders in late 1983 from Bill who used to work at Phantom of the Attic on South Craig Street in Pittsburgh. I must have been discussing sword and sorcery with him when […]
This article was originally posted on 1 December, 2018 as “A Peep at The Spicy Pulps”. Next week, we’ll return to normal with a quartet of reviewed new releases, including the newest offerings in Fenton Wood’s Yankee Republic series and Larry Correia’s Saga of the Forgotten Warrior. Last week, we examined how Martin Goodman, future publisher […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 12 September, 2020
Saturday , 12, September 2020 Uncategorized 1 CommentNecromancy, tomb-raiding, first contact disasters, and kaiju fill this week’s new releases. Blood Craft (Black Magic Outlaw #7) – Domino Finn For some investigations, you get nowhere relying on police. When the supernatural rears its head in Miami, the sleuthing’s usually up to me, Cisco Suarez, resident necromancer and all-around hard case. All I ask […]
Sensor Sweep: Andrew Offutt, The Broken Sword, Walt Simonson, Siege of Malta, Lovecraft Lunch Bags
Monday , 7, September 2020 Sensor Sweep 7 CommentsAuthors (The Silver Key): Andrew J. Offutt was a complex, deeply flawed man. A resident of rural Kentucky, Offutt was a husband and a father who supported his family with a successful insurance business, a job which he did not love and ultimately abandoned to make the bold leap into full-time writing. He was at […]
In October 2018, upon the publishing of Uncompromising Honor and the conclusion to the Honor Harrington part of Manticore’s history, we looked at a trio of series set to scratch that Hornblower in Space itch sure to develop in readers looking for their next Honor-like story. We return with the original suggestions, plus a pair […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 5 September, 2020
Saturday , 5, September 2020 Uncategorized 1 CommentDragon riders, mecha mercenaries, and Larry Correia’s Black Heart appear in this week’s new releases. Ascendant (Songs of Chaos #1) – Michael R. Miller Holt Cook was never meant to be a dragon rider. He has always served the Order Hall of the Crag dutifully, keeping their kitchen pots clean. But then he discovers a […]
Dandelion Summer by Lodestone Nostalgia can be the slippery slope, especially when occupied with witches, time machines, happiness machines, mass murderers, the confidence that a new pair of sneakers can inspire. Or it can be miraculous enough to have a section of the moon named after it. Ray Bradbury grew up in rural Illinois, a […]
By Chris L. Adams I love movie props; it seems like I have always had a fascination with the bits and bobs utilized by film crews to create that aura of reality on the business end of a camera. There’s something about the things worn or carried or held by the actors that is almost […]