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sSensor Sweep: William Shatner, Harold Lamb RPG, Forgotten Ruin
Monday , 29, March 2021 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsWriting (Wasteland & Sky): The strangest aspect of entertainment today is how absolutely slow it has gotten. This isn’t a new problem, but an old error that always returns during times of decadence and bloated egos seizing control of the arts. On Cannon Cruisers we constantly use the term “1970s pacing” to refer to movies […]
The movie Blade Runner (1982) was the first cinema adaptation of Philip K. Dick based on his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Last month, I picked up the novel out of town at a Half Price Books. The store had a few copies of a U.K. Orion Books trade paperback edition. Do Androids […]
“If you can survive Reaper Platoon in the Strange, then Ghost or Dog Platoons will get you for their own. Best to steer clear of the freaks in Voodoo, kid.” Out on the far away world known as Crash, a civil war brews. One side desperately wants to throw off the yoke of the Monarchs […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 27 March, 2021
Saturday , 27, March 2021 Uncategorized Leave a commentThe Mongoose and the Meerkat, the mercenaries of Strange Company, and the Black Harrier’s sidekick grace this week’s new releases. Cirsova Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense Spring 2021 – edited by P. Alexander “The Artomique Paradigm” – Michael Tierney Earth is now in contact with their intergalactic cousins! But during recent conflicts with […]
Sensor Sweep: Sky Masters, Hugh Cave, H. Rider Haggard
Monday , 22, March 2021 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsWeapons & Science Fiction (Dirk Bruere): We have all seen it — soldiers in the scifi future carrying their phasers, lasers, disruptors, blasters and so on, yet failing to hit their targets as the hero does cartwheels and back-flips to dodge the fire. The stormtroopers in Star Wars are notoriously bad shots, for example. In […]
We now come to the last four stories in The Philip K. Dick Reader. These are also stories all made into movies. “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” (F&SF April 1966): The story that became the movie Total Recall. Douglas Quail is an office worker with an obsession of going to Mars. The wife […]
After a hundred years as a mercenary and bounty hunter, dwarf Jari Rockjaw has his eye on a quiet life of retirement on a homestead far away. But before he can buy the farm, he needs one last bounty: the head of the most infamous dwarven reiver in Labrys. But to cut through his target’s […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 20 March, 2021
Saturday , 20, March 2021 Uncategorized Leave a commentDragon songs, alien artifacts, and intergalactic secret societies are hidden in this week’s new releases. Alien Artifacts (Cade Korbin Chronicles #2) – Jasper T. Scott On his last job, Cade Korbin lost his ship, lost his credits, and barely escaped with his life, but it’s not over. His enemy is still out there, nursing a […]
Sensor Sweep: Lord Dunsany, Irish Horror, Steve Fabian
Monday , 15, March 2021 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsFiction (Classic Horror): For centuries Ireland has fostered a culture swarming in mystery, magic, and the macabre: it gave us Samhain and jack-o-lanterns, Dracula and Carmilla, headless horsemen and banshees, and a rambling host of masterful literary minds whose supernatural fiction is still celebrated for being wildly imaginative and unsettling. Ireland has arguably contributed more […]
This is the fourth installment in a series wherein I examine a batch of stories from The Philip K. Dick Reader. So far, the stories show the Cold War with the potential for WWIII weighed heavily on Philip K. Dick’s mind. Robots were also a favorite topic. “Upon the Dull Earth” (Beyond Fantasy Fiction #9, […]
March’s quick reviews cast a critical eye on Dungeon Duel, by eden Hudson and James Hunter, and Conquest: Icelandia, by Jean-Luc Isitin and Zivorad Radivojevic. Roark van Graf’s struggles have taken him from a deposed noble fighting against a tyrant to the basest cannon-fodder in an MMO to lord of a mighty alliance of dungeons. […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases; 13 March, 2021
Saturday , 13, March 2021 Uncategorized Leave a commentChain breakers, peacemakers, and emberfolk warriors stalk across this week’s new releases. The Age of Men (The Nightfall Wars #6) – Jacob Peppers Darkness reaches forth its taloned hands, and the shadows dance and caper in anticipation of the long night to come. A night that, should it have its way, will destroy the light […]