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sJUST RELEASED: There Will Be War Volume VII
Monday , 25, September 2017 Just Released, News, Publications 1 CommentTHERE WILL BE WAR is a landmark science fiction anthology series that combines top-notch military science fiction with factual essays by various generals and military experts on everything from High Frontier and the Strategic Defense Initiative to the aftermath of the Vietnam War. It featured some of the greatest military science fiction ever published, such Orson […]
Castalia House is pleased to announce that Peter Grant’s science fiction series THE MAXWELL SAGA is now available in paperback. Part Heinlein juvenile, part Horatio Alger success story, these five books chart the rise of Steve Maxwell as he struggles to make his place in the universe. Through honesty, hard work, and even harder won […]
SJWS ALWAYS DOUBLE DOWN: Anticipating the Thought Police is now available for preorder. It features a foreword by Andrew Torba and its release date is October 9th. The paperback and audiobook will be released in November. Whether you realize it or not, if you live in the West, you are currently engulfed in a civilization-wide cultural war […]
Fans of Selenoth and quality fantasy fiction will enjoy this announcement from Castalia House editor Vox Day: The response to the free days for A Throne of Bones and A Sea of Skulls was so great – and the consequent effects on the sales of Castalia House books and KU reads were so substantial – […]
The all new pulp magazine Storyhack is a go! Bryce A Beattie has the latest news at his blog: We’re down to the last little bit for the StoryHack campaign on Kickstarter. We’ve hit and gone a little over the goal! Issue #1 is getting made. Thank you to everybody who has helped this happen. […]
Cirsova Magazine, Spring 2016- Review
Sunday , 4, September 2016 Book Review, Publications, Short Fiction Leave a commentWe might be in the middle of a spontaneous movement of small press fantastic adventure fiction. Return of the Sword, Griots, Swords of Steel, Skelos, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Swords and Sorcery Magazine have a D.I.Y. attitude. I think there has been a reaction against the blandness and “whoosification” of fantasy fiction from the big book […]
It has been one and a half years since the last issue of Weird Tales has been published. Weird Tales has undergone four separate attempts at reanimation. There was the Sam Moskowitz edited version for four issues in 1973-74. That was a mostly reprint magazine of public domain material with a few new stories. Lin […]
I have a soft spot for Gardner F. Fox (1911-1986). Fox is probably best remembered today as a comic book writer. He created The Flash, Hawkman, the Justice Society of America. He gave us Batman’s utility belt. Fox also had a pulp career starting with “The Weirds of the Woodcarver” in September 1944 issue of […]
A new book of essays was released on October 1st. The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales is the last of Rowman & Littlefield’s Studies in Supernatural Literature volumes. Sunand Tryambak Joshi was the editor of this series that made it to seven before getting the headman’s axe for poor sales. Joshi stated he had no […]
INTERVIEW: with Dr. Martin Van Creveld on Equality – The Impossible Quest
Wednesday , 25, March 2015 Interview, Publications 11 CommentsDr. Martin van Creveld, Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, is one of the world’s leading writers on military history and strategy, with a special interest in the future of war. He is fluent in Hebrew, German, Dutch, and English, and has authored more than twenty books. He is known for his development of […]
An interesting anthology of sword and sorcery fiction is The Barbarian Swordsmen. This was a U.K. paperback from 1981 published by Star Books edited by Peter Haining under the pseudonym “Sean Richards.” Why the pseudonym? L. Sprague de Camp was the first to put together an anthology of sword and sorcery fiction with Swords and […]