Monthly Archives:
sSensor Sweep: Ubisoft, James Bond, Matt Helm, Elfquest
Monday , 30, September 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentOld Radio (Purple Girasol): Presenting, for your listening pleasure, “Murder by a Corpse“. A Halloween episode a month early. New (With Both Hands): There are now a number of contemporary short fiction magazines publishing sci fi, fantasy, and weird tales, and Cirsova may be pre-eminent among them. While sales of these little magazines are far […]
Gardner F. Fox (1911-1986) was a writer whose history that went back to the pulp magazines in the 1940s. He started in comic books in 1937, had his first pulp magazine story in Weird Tales in 1944. He had three stories in Weird Tales, ten in Planet Stories, one in Amazing Stories. Some of his […]
There’s a rare lull in the breakneck world of independent science fiction, so while the New Release feature is catching its breath for a couple weeks, let’s look back at the pulps. What is pulp fiction? That is a loaded question, as pulp fiction encompasses many different genres. Science fiction, hard-boiled detective stories, heroic crime […]
Greyhawk (Greykawkery): Leading off of course is the mad antics of the CULTISTS. Those who aren’t familiar with them from my first run of comics (2007-2011) can find them in the links above or even in the most recent issues of Oerth Journal. What trouble will this duo cause this time? I will feature the […]
The first new barbarian fantasy hero of the 1960s was John Jakes’ Brak. John Jakes (1932-2023) got his start in the science fiction pulp magazines in 1950. He was in lower tier titles including Amazing Stories, Fantastic Adventures, Planet Stories, Imagination, If etc. He branched out into western fiction and crime fiction magazines through the […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 21 September 2024
Sunday , 22, September 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. Cirsova #20/Fall 2024 – edited by P. Alexander Thirteen tales of heroic adventure and daring suspense, including: An ancient vampire has plotted his long revenge against the family that has warred with […]
Magazines (Pulp Super-Fan): I recently obtained Pulp Adventures #44 from Bold Venture Press, dated Winter 2024. A delay from the prior issue, but it looks like they are working to get back on schedule. We get science fiction, detective, crime, and horror, along with reviews and non-fiction this time. Conan (Sprague de Camp Fan): Chapters […]
Sword & sorcery as a fictional genre had its origin in the weird fiction pulp magazines of the late 1920s into the 1930s. There was a forgotten variation in Planet Stories in the 1940s. Then it disappeared from the magazines for the most part in the 1950s. There was a renascence in the digest magazines […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 14 September 2024
Sunday , 15, September 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. Lance (Conscript #3) – Scott Bartlett Planet Nibiru wants them dead. All of them. Trapped by the destruction of their own satellites, the Marines on Nibiru suddenly find themselves without orbital or […]
Adrian Cole’s Dream Lords 50th Anniversary Collection
Saturday , 14, September 2024 Uncategorized 1 CommentThe Castalia House Blog is pleased to spotlight exciting new projects in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Cirsova Publishing is excited to announce that it will be publishing Adrian Cole’s Dream Lords saga in a collected edition for its 50th Anniversary. The Dream Lords represented Adrian Cole’s debut in his long […]
Tolkien (Geek Gab Fest): Orcs, in Tolkien’s works, are an inherently evil race of raiders, murderers, cannibals, and rapists. They are utterly evil, without any redeeming qualities except a low sort of loyalty to their masters. Conan (Sprague de Camp Fan): There are several things I regret in life. Mostly small things. Things like never […]
Robert E. Howard’s Prehistoric Beasts: Other Entries
Sunday , 8, September 2024 Robert E. Howard 2 CommentsWhenever a Robert E. Howard character was setting out into the unknown, you never knew when he would run into some creature of the past. Mammoth: Those magnificent great cold weather elephants of the Pleistocene. James Allison mentions them as Hunwulf encountered them in “The Garden of Fear.” “I gave them a wide berth, giants too […]