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sSensor Sweep: Frazetta, Steranko, Portal Adventures
Monday , 31, March 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentFiction (Marzaat): Below is a list of some fantastic fiction related to World War One. Linked stories are discussed on the Home Page, and each story there classified by four characteristics and tagged accordingly: Writing (With Both Hands): Nick Cole’s Strange Company 3 is coming out April, so I started reading the first Strange Company again this week. […]
Another now forgotten fantasy novel from the 1980s.
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 29 March 2025
Sunday , 30, March 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. Apocalypse Arena: Mortal Gauntlet – J. Pal The multiverse is watching. He’ll be damned sure to give them a show. Saving an innocent from a drug-crazed superhuman should’ve left Nil broken. Instead, […]
Sensor Sweep: Male Readers, Obsidian Moon, Vast Grimm, Hell Divers II
Monday , 24, March 2025 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentPublishing (Wasteland & Sky): Today we’re going to look into the question as to why males have been not only cast out of the book industry, but are actively ignored and looked down on as readers by those still inside. This is not a new issue. Where did all this hostility come from, and why […]
Wolf-Dreams by Michael D. Weaver is the first in a fantasy trilogy. Published by Avon Books in May 1987, mass market paperback format, 186 pages. Michael D. Weaver (1961-1998) had seven novels published between 1987-1996. I read Bloodfang (1989), the last in the trilogy sometime back. I don’t remember when I read the novel. I […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 22 March 2025
Sunday , 23, March 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. Beginnings (Lost Town #4) – Nathan Hystad Cause and effect are a universal truth. Most of Carmichael’s population made it home, but not everyone wants to return. Both parties must start again, […]
Sensor Sweep: Robert Bloch, Gondolin, Galloglachs, Swords of Steel
Monday , 17, March 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentComic Books (Glitternight): This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog looks at Sun Girl, a Marvel character from back when the company was called Timely Comics. Fantasy (Ken Lizzi): It is unsurprising that The Hollow Hills is generally lacking in suspense. We readers — even more than the narrator, Merlin — know the […]
Peter Haining was one of the top-tier anthologists of the late 20th Century. He would cover a theme including contents that were deep and wide. If you bought a book he edited, you would come out knowing much more than when you started. One of my favorites is Great Irish Tales of Fantasy and Myth. […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 15 March 2025
Sunday , 16, March 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. Battlefield Diplomacy – L. L. Richman A fragile alliance. A stolen weapon. A war for Humanity’s future. Special Forces operator Matt Whitaker survived the Oniki War — but only just. Now the […]
Sensor Sweep: James Bond Copyright, Joseph Payne Brennan, Tanith Lee
Monday , 10, March 2025 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentAuthors (Black Gate): A Celebration of Life for Howard Andrew Jones (HAJ) was just held in Evansville, IN, Feb 22, 2025. The event gathered friends, family, and over a dozen author colleagues. Numerous online memorials and tributes had been posted leading up to this. Links to many are listed at the bottom of the post; […]
Last year, a friend of mine mentioned he planned on rereading Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream without irony. Synchronicity as I had been thinking of doing the same thing. Norman Spinrad wrote one of the greatest Star Trek episodes, “The Doomsday Machine” from Season 2. He wrote a couple competent space operas in the 60s, […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 8 March 2025
Saturday , 8, March 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 Atlantis Equation (The Traveler #7) – Vaughn Heppner Ever want revenge so bad you’d cross the galaxy for it? U.S. Marine Jake Bayard does. After a telepathic killer executes his pregnant […]