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sThis is a guest post from Jared: Outlaws of the Marsh is one of four classic Chinese epics. The most famous of these four epics is probably Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong. Numerous international video games are based on this novel about the tripartite civil war that ended the Han dynasty. A […]
Sensor Sweep: Lawrence Watt-Evans, Dax the Damned, Harold Lamb, Companion Rules
Monday , 4, September 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentTolkien (Quillette): Fantasy is more popular than ever, and this is the direct consequence of Tolkien’s success. But the genre has survived by adapting, and in an age of secularism, that process has involved evaporating the religious themes Tolkien cared about so deeply. Pulp (Pulp Flakes): Robert Reeves, the author of the Cellini Smith stories […]
Charles Hoffman has been one of the most perceptive writers on Robert E. Howard’s fiction. His “Conan the Existentialist” has been reprinted three times after its original appearance in Amra #61 in 1974. He has had non-fiction pieces in The Dark Man, Crypt of Cthulhu, Spectrum, The Cimmerian, and The Robert E. Howard Reader. He […]
Blog Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 1 September, 2023
Saturday , 2, 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. Before Us (The Abyss #2) – Nathan Hystad They came from below but were they also here Before Us? Wyatt survived the initial destruction, but he’s lost someone important to him. While […]