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sScience Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 30 September 2023
Saturday , 30, September 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. Ganwold’s Child (The Sergey Chronicles #1) – D. T. Read Darcie was taking her young child Tristan to rejoin her husband Lujan in the Enach system when nonhuman slavers attacked and captured […]
Sensor Sweep: Greynawk, Tanith Lee, Ron Cobb, Ahsoka
Monday , 25, September 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentD&D (Grognardia): Longtime readers may object that I’ve already done a Retrospective post on The World of Greyhawk. Pedantic as ever, I must reply that, while it’s true that I have indeed written a post about The World of Greyhawk, I have never written one about World of Greyhawk. n 1980, TSR published The World of […]
I covered Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, a history of British thriller novels a few weeks back. The thriller novel is alive and well. A friend of mine tipped me to the “James Reece” series by Jack Carr. Carr is a former Nany SEAL with 20 years in special warfare including being a sniper and counter […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 23 September 2023
Saturday , 23, September 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. The Blade Bearers (Blade and Bone #6) – D. K. Holmberg As the drumbeats of war intensify, the Bearers must answer. Finn and Morgan struggle to return to Verendal, finding only destruction […]
Guest post by Jared: It’s amazing how your average moviegoer was blinded by the bread and circus of the MCEU for a decade. Years ago, the first Iron Man film broke a record. So did Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Black Panther, and Endgame. Those films broke global box office records despite being absolutely horrible, […]
Sensor Sweep: Babylon-5, Beowulf, Mirkwood Manual, A. E. van Vogt
Monday , 18, September 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentMyth (Dark Worlds Quarterly): Whether you call him Siegfried (in the German The Nibelungenlied) or Sigurd (the Völsunga saga, and the Poetic Edda), it doesn’t really matter. He fights the dragon Fafnir and wins. It is one of the classic myths that lies behind much of Sword & Sorcery. In the original tale, Siegfried is […]
Back around 1997 or 1998, Howard A. Jones contacted me on the internet. I was the official editor of the Robert E. Howard United Press Association at the time. People would seek me out on how I could help them sell their Conan pastiche novel to Tor Books or get on the syndicated Conan T.V. […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 16 September 2023
Saturday , 16, September 2023 Uncategorized 1 CommentEvery week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Cirsova #16 / Fall 2023 – edited by P. Alexander Tales of heroic adventure and daring suspense that include: Krallenburg is beset by a werewolf! Can witchhunter Friedrich Rosch stop the monstrous […]
This is a guest post from Jared: Prisoner of the Horned Helmet is the first in a four-book series to tell the story of Gath of Baal a.k.a. the Death Dealer from Frank Frazetta’s famed paintings. James SIlke is listed as the author of the Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer series (not to be confused with […]
Sensor Sweep: Godzilla, Thane, Barry Sadler, Jack Williamson
Monday , 11, September 2023 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsRPG (Arbiter of Worlds): This week marks the 24th episode of my series of instructional videos about how to be a better gamemaster. In this week’s video, I discuss how to mash up your favorite RPG system with another system to make a unique hybrid game. Car Wars + Traveller yields Driver. Cyberpunk + Runequest […]
7th Century Britain is not your normal setting for an historical novel. A. B. Higginson’s Wulfhere is the only one I can think of. Wulfhere was a five part serial in the pulp magazine Adventure in mid-1920. Higginson was a Canadian with a military background. Wulfhere was his only published work. Sort of like Arthur […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 8 September, 2023
Saturday , 9, September 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. Combat Frame XSeed Illustrated Tech Guide II – Brian Neimeier Space is a graveyard Meet the advanced war machines fighting for the fate of Earth! Get the official specs on every Ynzu […]