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sSensor Sweep: Comics Code, Michael Moorcock, Drow, Heavy Metal
Monday , 24, February 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentPulp (Rough Edges): This is a pulp that I own and read recently. That’s my copy in the scan. I don’t know why the front cover is missing that strip at the bottom. That’s the way I got it. Luckily, the loss doesn’t detract too much from the cover by A. Leslie Ross. Not in […]
I enjoy reading a western novel now and then. I had read a couple of Elmore Leonard’s westerns decades ago. More recently, I really enjoyed The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard. The T.V. show Justified was one of the few I would take time out to watch when it was one. I decided to […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 22 February 2025
Sunday , 23, February 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 Feasting of Vengeance (The Four Horsemen Universe: The Phoenix Initiative #16) – Rob Howell The hunt for Kukuluki continues. In a galaxy where treachery and double-dealing is the normal way of […]
Sensor Sweep: Romantasy, C. L. Moore, Mythus, Sherlock Holmes
Monday , 17, February 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentFiction (Jon del Arroz): Romantasy is all the new rage from authors like Rebecca Yarros and Sarah J. Maas. How did fantasy fiction get to this point? Popular Culture (Kairos): A raging debate between members of Generation Y and the Millennials revolves around this question: Which decade was superior–the 1980s or the 1990s? As with […]
In the Blood is the fifth book in Jack Carr’s “Terminal List” series. The novel starts with a female Mossad agent who has killed someone in the nation of Burkina Faso in Africa. Leaving in a jet, it is blown out of the sky. She was a friend of James Reese going back to a […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 15 February 2025
Sunday , 16, February 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. Echoes of Extinction (The Voidwalker Chronicles #1) – Sean Robins One man must lead the charge in the name of humanity. Major Ethan Irons thought surviving Earth’s near-extinction event was the pinnacle […]
Sensor Sweep: Planet Comics, Elric, Edgar Rice Burroughs
Monday , 10, February 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentFiction (Three Investigators Books): In the first book of a 26-book story arc, it’s the summer before their freshman year in high school and Jupiter Jones, Bob Andrews, and Pete Crenshaw are back on the case in Rocky Beach, California. Their new client, Isabella Chang, wants to discover the truth about a murdered ancestor whose […]
The Devil’s Hand is book #4 in Jack Carr’s “Terminal List” series. James Reese has been summoned by the new President of the United States to Camp David for a meeting. The President has a request. Twenty years earlier, his fiance was killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. There are […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 8 February 2025
Saturday , 8, February 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. Crown of Beasts (The Beastcaller Chronicles #2) – Dan Michaelson and D. K. Holmberg Leo Stormrider barely survived his first encounter with the Unbeasts. Now, as the apprentice to Lord Darkthorn, he […]
Sensor Sweep: Otis Adelbert Kline, Clark Ashton Smith, Captain America
Monday , 3, February 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentConan (The Take): When I was a teenager, my dad sat me down to watch one of the greatest fantasy films ever made: Conan the Barbarian, John Milius’ 1982 epic co-written by Oliver Stone, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in the title role. D&D (Walker’s Retreat): The reason that TSR before 2000, and WOTC since, has gotten […]
Savage Son is the third book in the Terminal List/James Reese series from Jack Carr. Reese is in Montana recuperating after brain surgery to remove a tumor caused by a drug given illegally for PTSD. He has vengeance on his mind. First, there is a CIA traitor who went over to the Russians and working […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 1 February 2025
Sunday , 2, February 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. Alan Buys the Universe – Marc Mulero Somewhere faraway, the universe is in peril. But on Earth, Alan is minding his own business after a boring double-shift at the pawn shop… until […]