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sSensor Sweep: Warhammer, Arkham House, Michael Shea
Monday , 29, April 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentPublishing (Wasteland & Sky): We’re going back to that seminal year in 1939. This was back when Fandom were holding conventions and looking towards the glorious utopic future. Meanwhile, a set of writers were more concentrated on preserving a past in danger of being forgotten. This is the story of Arkham House! Fantasy (Echoes of […]
I have written before that I enjoy a good weird western story. I have looked at some anthologies of that genre here over the years. Joe R. Lansdale has been considered as the resuscitator of the weird western story after it was missing in action for fifty years. Two works in the 1980s brought the […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 27 April 2024
Saturday , 27, April 2024 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. End Watch (The Silent Wars #1) – Adrian J. Smith In the future, freedom is for the modified. Three centuries after the Genetic War divided humanity, the natural born are slaves. Fated […]
Sensor Sweep: Wizards of the Coast, D.C. Comics, Kull, Tolkien, Bradbury
Monday , 22, April 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentSword & Sorcery (Echoes of Crom): Join me and co-host, Matthew Knight as we discuss the Elak of Atlantis tale “Dragon Moon” by Henry Kuttner. This is the story that inspired the Cauldron Born song, “Dragon Throne”. Conan (Sprague de Camp Fan): “Hyborian Names” is an article by L. Sprague de Camp that appeared in […]
Baen’s “Hell” series edited by Janet Morris ran for seven anthologies and four novels from 1986 to 1989. I remember the series and resisted reading or buying them when they came out. The idea did not appeal to me. The idea is sort of like Philip Jose Farmer’s “Riverworld” series that when a person dies […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 20 April 2024
Saturday , 20, April 2024 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. Darkspace Renegade – G. J. Ogden Humanity depends on the star bridges. Hallam Knight must tear them down. Hallam Knight is a Bridge Runner, one of the few people brave and stupid […]
Sensor Sweep: Poul Anderson, Prince Valiant Game, Blue Sonja, Ballantine Fantasy
Monday , 15, April 2024 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentScience Fiction (Type Bar Magazine): A recent Washington Post articleindicated that only 12% of the reading public were interested in reading science fiction. A perusal of bestseller lists for science fiction shows an even more alarming truth: the science fiction books that do sell are a shrinkingly small number of reprints, classics and novels that […]
Charles Henry Cannell (1882-1947) is a writer better known for some lost race novels as “E. Charles Vivian.” He also wrote eight novels in the “Gees” series as “Jack Mann” published from 1936 to 1940. Maker of Shadows is the fifth novel in the series. Originally published in the U.K. as a hardback in 1938, […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 13 April 2024
Saturday , 13, April 2024 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. Best (Baneberry Hall #1) – Frederick Gero Heimbach As he would be first to admit, Mason Best is a genius. He lied—oops, charmed—his way into Baneberry Hall, the nation’s top prep school, didn’t […]
Sensor Sweep: Bad Books, Ramsey Campbell, Weird Tales
Monday , 8, April 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentReading (John C. Wright): Readers who do not want to read a curmudgeon (me) being curmudgeonly, please go away. This is not a review or a philosophical analysis. No attempt at balance or fairness has been made: the following consists of merely a description of negative reactions. These are some books I just could not […]
I have a weakness for Atlantis novels. I first read of the lost continent in the first volume of the Golden Book Encyclopedia. Love the illustrations in those volumes. I think the first fictional piece I ever read set in Atlantis was Henry Kuttner’s Elak of Atlantis in “Spawn of Dagon” in the paperback The […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 6 April 2024
Saturday , 6, April 2024 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. Conscript – Scott Bartlett The Scourge are back And the Corps needs recruits. Desperate to free his younger siblings from debt slavery, Po Abbato turns to crime. He’s caught, and offered a […]