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sSensor Sweep: Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Dire Wolves
Monday , 27, November 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentPaleontology (Science.org): Dire wolves, which died out with mammoths and saber-toothed cats at the end of the last ice age, were long thought to be close cousins of gray wolves. Now, the first analysis of dire wolf DNA finds they instead traveled a lonely evolutionary path: They are so different from other wolves, coyotes, and […]
Cosmic horror is a term generally applied to H. P. Lovecraft and his circle. My reading of cosmic horror has been either the Lovecraft circle (Donald Wandrei, Clark Ashton Smith) or those influenced by Lovecraft. That segues into William Sloane’s To Walk the Night which I finally set time aside to read. I had heard […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 25 November 2023
Saturday , 25, November 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. Cloak of Embers (Cloak Mage #10) – Jonathan Moeller A deadly puzzle. A closing trap. My name is Nadia, and I’m a Marshal of the High Queen of the Elves. That means […]
Sensor Sweep: Doc Savage Imitators, Steranko, Russell Kirk, Galaxy Quest
Monday , 20, November 2023 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentD&D (DM David): While the Dungeons & Dragons team developed the game‘s fourth edition for a 2008 release, they faced problems from several directions. Corporate owners Hasbro brought a big corporate cost structure and return on investment expectations set by Magic the Gathering and Pokémon. Conan (Sprague de Camp Fan): This “Homage to Robert E. […]
I read The Best of Manhunt 2 the past six or so weeks. Like volume 1, this is in trade paperback format, 223 pages, 35 stories ranging from 3-4 pages to novelettes. Authors include Fletcher Flora, Richard Deming, Helen Nielsen, Frank Kane, Jonathan Craig, Donald Westlake, Jack Ritchie who were to be found in volume […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 18 November 2023
Saturday , 18, November 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. Alliance of Outlaws (The Augment War #1) – Ben Hale A lost weapon. A forgotten enemy. A new alliance will rise. An old enemy has returned. Militant zealots backed by a new […]
Sensor Sweep: Star Frontiers, Steranko, Asimov, Grey Hawk
Monday , 13, November 2023 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentConan (Education Forensics): If you listen to “Ask Chuck Dixon” on YouTube or UATV, you’ll know that Dixon has written thousands of comic books. He created the character Bane, and wrote ‘Batman’ for DC for ten years. He’s also responsible for the Levon Cade series of Vigilante Justice novels. One of the things he talks […]
There is a type of adventure story that is an off-shoot of the western set in Mexico in the early 20th Century during the Mexican Civil Wars. Frank O’Rourke’s The Professionals might be the first of those. Originally published as A Mule for the Marquesa in 1964, it was filmed as The Professionals in 1966 […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 11 November 2023
Saturday , 11, November 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. After Us (The Abyss #3) – Nathan Hystad The fate of the world is on the line. What will be left After Us? Safety is obviously only temporary as the Static continues […]
Sensor Sweep: Sword & Sorcery, John the Balladeer, Le Fanu, Atomic Werewolves
Monday , 6, November 2023 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentSword & Sorcery (Pulp Super Fan): Robert E. Howard expert Morgan Holmes discusses sword and sorcery stories appearing in Weird Tales. 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the fantasy and horror-fiction magazine. RPG (Modiphius): Welcome to another chilling edition of Halloween Horrors – are you ready to be terrorised as Achtung! Cthulhu presents its now […]
Valerio Massimo Manfredi’s The Last Legion is a stand alone novel from 2002. This is a 425 page novel set in the late 5th Century A.D. The novel starts in late 476 in Italy. Warlord Odoacer makes his move to remove the last Roman emperor, the young Romulus Augustulus. Standing in the way is the […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 4 November 2023
Saturday , 4, November 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. Galaxy Under Siege (Forgotten Galaxy #3) – M. R. Forbes Caleb Card always knew that fighting back against overwhelming odds would be a thankless slog. And with Legion forces expanding across the […]