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sThe Scandinavian sagas have had an influence on some the early fantasy writers: William Morris, E. R. Eddison, and of course J. R. R. Tolkien. I have had a copy of E. R. Eddison’s Styrbiorn the Strong lying around unread longer than I would like to admit. I have to get in the right frame […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 25 January 2025
Saturday , 25, January 2025 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. Able Bodied Soldier #2 – J. N. Chaney and Jason Anspach Titus Briggs’s second chance has become a first-rate, alien-crushing, rebel-stomping success. The MOCOM units are turning the tide of the war, […]
Sensor Sweep: Howard A. Jones, Farnsworth Wright, William Hope Hodgson
Monday , 20, January 2025 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentNote: Sensor Sweep will be mid-week next week instead of Monday. Authors (Goodman Games): Howard Andrew Jones passed away on Thursday, January 16, 2025. Howard was a wonderful man and a good friend. He had a rare spirit that threw off sparks of joy for anyone who loved books as he did. I love books […]
I received the news Thursday afternoon that Howard A. Jones had passed the night before. I was expecting this the past couple months after hearing Howard had a terminal case of glioblastoma cancer in the brain. It was late 1997 or early 1998 that Howard Jones had contacted me. I was the Official Editor of […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 18 January 2025
Saturday , 18, January 2025 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 Dream Lords – Adrian Cole Mankind and its empire spanning the Nine Worlds are ruled by a powerful triumvirate of long-lived dreamers: the Dream Lords! The Dream Lords project a vision […]
Sensor Sweep: Weird Tales, Ramsey Campbell, Swords of Steel
Monday , 13, January 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentPulp (Rough Edges): Many, many years ago I read one or two novels by Otis Adelbert Kline and remember enjoying them, but I couldn’t tell you exactly which books I read. I do know, however, that TAM, SON OF THE TIGER wasn’t one of them, because I just read it and I’m certain I’d never […]
I have written on Poul Anderson’s sword & pseudo-science stories in the pulp magazine Planet Stories. At the same time, Anderson had an historical in the pages of the pulp Adventure. “Son of the Sword” appeared in the January 1952 issue of Adventure. Anderson was placing stories with Popular Publications’ Super Science Stories. Ejler G. […]
Sensor Sweep: Greyhawk, D&D, Cirsova, Iron Wolf
Monday , 6, January 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentRobert E. Howard (M Porcius): Let’s read three stories from my copy of The Book of Robert E. Howard that I think are set in the 19th or 20th centuries and that may or may not have some kind of supernatural element. D&D (Fandom Pulse): Dungeons & Dragons has moved into woke territory to the determinant of […]
I have reached a milestone with the Castalia House blog: ten years of blogging. My first post was “The Mid-1980s Paperback Sword and Sorcery Extinction Event” on December 28, 2014. The blog posts have continued without interruption with the exception of once when the site was down. I have also written some extra blog posts […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 4 January 2025
Saturday , 4, January 2025 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. Culmination (Battle Mage Farmer #9) – Seth Ring They started the fight. John is going to end it. Despite John’s best efforts to avoid getting pulled into a war, the Resplendent Empire […]