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sAVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER: The LawDog Files: African Adventures
Friday , 21, July 2017 News, Promotions Leave a commentPre-order part two of the best selling LawDog Files here. LawDog had the honor of representing law and order in the Texas town of Bugscuffle as a Sheriff’s Deputy, where he became notorious for, among other things, the famous Case of the Pink Gorilla Suit. But long before he put on the deputy’s star, he […]
The Castalia House blog hit 101,343 pageviews in March. That’s the first time it has exceeded 100k pageviews in a month. And that’s up from the previous record of 76,551 the month before. I’d like to say “thank you” to all the the bloggers, authors, linkers, tweeters, readers, and commenters that made this happen. So: […]
An all new Geek Gab is here and it’s loaded with all manner of geeky gabbishness! Listen in to hear all about Ghost in the Shell and Scarlett Johansson, Robert E. Howard and Weird Westerns, Joseph Campbell and godawful fantasy, the OSR and Pulp Revolution, D&D and the lengths Dungeon Masters will go to give […]
Castalia House has put in a good showing at this year’s Conservative-Libertarian Fiction Alliance Book of the Year Award, taking both first and third place. Peter Grant takes the prize with Brings the Lightning. Congrats, Peter! (For behind-the-scenes details about how the book was put together, check out Scott Cole’s interview with Peter here.) Second […]
Today, Castalia House passed one million WordPress pageviews. Congratulations to Jeffro, the Castalia House blog editor, and to all of the authors, bloggers, and readers who made this happen. It may interest you to know that February 2017 has already been an all-time record traffic month.
Forthcoming: Straight Out of Tombstone
Thursday , 22, December 2016 Fiction, News, Short Fiction 2 CommentsA visit to Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter Nation site had this forthcoming book listed. I am always up for a weird western. The form has pulp roots with stories by Otis Adelbert Kline, S. Omar Barker, and Arthur J. Burks in the pages of Weird Tales and Strange Tales. Robert E. Howard wrote a handful […]
Masha K. (Marina’s Musings) “Each step brings more revelations, more complexity more demands on the reader’s brainpower and attention span, and you come out on the other end having not just read but experienced something very special.” Hans G. Schantz (ÆtherCzar) “As in his also excellent recent novel, Somewhither: A Tale of the Unwithering Realm, […]
Karl Gallagher’s Torchship Takes the First Planetary Award for Best Novel
Tuesday , 3, May 2016 News 1 CommentYou know, I think Karl Gallagher has been reading my stuff for almost as long as I’ve been writing it. So you’d maybe have a point if you were going to say that I’m maybe a little biased when it comes to assessing his work. But the thing is, it’s not just me that’s praising his […]
Congratulations to the many Castalia House authors, columnists, and editors that have been nominated for a Hugo this year. Here is the complete list: “Flashpoint: Titan” by CHEAH Kai Wai (There Will Be War Volume X) “What Price Humanity?” by David VanDyke (There Will Be War Volume X) “Seven Kill Tiger” by Charles Shao (There […]
Dr. Jerry Pournelle Wins the National Space Society Robert A. Heinlein Award
Thursday , 14, April 2016 News Leave a commentCastalia House is pleased to report that the 2016 Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award has been won by Dr. Jerry Pournelle: This award is presented once every two years for lifetime achievement in promoting the goal of a free, spacefaring civilization. The winner is decided by the vote of the entire NSS membership, not by the […]