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sSensor Sweep: Titan Comics, Gygax Memorial, Fargo, Raymond Chandler
Monday , 31, July 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentBook Stores (Porpor Books): Earlier this week I made a road trip down south to the Knoxville area. I had a number of goals in mind, including a visit to the newly opened Bucc-ees in Sevierville. But I also took time to visit the McKay Books franchise in Knoxville. D&D (En World): Today (Thursday 27th […]
John Brunner has written some books I like a lot: Interstellar Empire, Secret Agent of Terra, The Repairmen of Cyclops, The Traveller in Black etc. I have had Time Without Number on my shelf for longer than I should admit. It was time to read it. I have the 1969 paperback edition. It is made […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 29 July 2023
Saturday , 29, July 2023 Uncategorized Leave a commentEvery week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. By This Axe – presented by Autarch By This Axe: The Cyclopedia of Dwarven Civilization reveals the secrets of the great and proud race of dwarves, compiled, codified, and curated for use in […]
If you read the appendix and biographical notes to Penguin Classics The Age of Alexander by Plutarch, you see the original Game of Thrones. Alexander the Great’s generals and officer immediately set to to prove who was the strongest. Michael Taylor’s Antiochus the Great is a history of one of the more interesting descendants of […]
Sensor Sweep: Valiant Comics, Killers of the Flower Moon, Polyhedron, Monster Hunter Bloodlines
Monday , 24, July 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentD&D (Walker’s Retreat): While I talk a lot about Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition, I have mentioned other games that are fit for purpose. Below is a short, not-exclusive, list. Traveller: I prefer the original edition, but I have yet to see anything disqualifying about the subsequent ones. Firearms (Tom Kratman): McNamara seems to […]
Die By the Sword is the newest anthology from DMR Books. “From the hells beneath the hells comes a brand-new anthology of sword and sorcery adventure! DMR Books presents yet another tome of fantastic tales by some of the most exciting authors in the field today. These scribes of blood and thunder maintain the legacy […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 22 July 2023
Saturday , 22, July 2023 Uncategorized Leave a commentEvery week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Below Us – Nathan Hystaad Forget the stars, the real threat is below us. After a rough break up, Wyatt moves to New York City, eager to prove himself while working on […]
If you have paid attention, I like to read about ancient and medieval warfare. Myke Cole’s The Bronze Lie is an Osprey publication from 2021 that is a hefty 464 pages. The cover blurb under the title is “Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy.” I have not read Cole’s Legion Versus Phalanx which I […]
Sensor Sweep: Doom that Came to Gotham, Indiana Jones, Swamp Thing, Bowie Knives
Monday , 17, July 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentReview (With Both Hands): Hacking Galileo by Fenton Wood is many things: an adventure, a lament for an age now lost, even a manual for subverting obsolete technology. This book is for the adults who once were the spergy GenX and GenY kids who are the stars of this book. The kids who built radios […]
Before Louis L’Amour became the biggest selling paperback writer of westerns, he divided his time in the pulp mgazines between westerns, adventure, and crime fiction. This may be a surprise to some of you but he had a respectable run in the detective pulps in the 1940s. The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour: Crime […]
The Mighty Sons of Hercules: an interview with P. Alexander of Cirsova Magazine
Saturday , 15, July 2023 Uncategorized 2 CommentsLong ago, in ages past… there were men who travelled the world, seeking adventure. Fighting injustice, defending the weak and the helpless, looking to right wrongs wherever they are found: these were the Mighty Sons of Hercules! Wherever righteousness must have a champion, there you will find the Mighty Sons of Hercules! Whenever there is […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 15 July 2023
Saturday , 15, July 2023 Uncategorized Leave a commentEvery week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Quantum Chaos (Quantum #5) – Douglas Phillips Chaos. Where the universe ends, and reality begins. Everyone knows that Chitzas are masters of spatial compression, routinely exploring distant places across the Milky Way […]