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sSensor Sweep: Robert Bloch, Flashing Swords, Dragonbane
Monday , 21, April 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentEdgar Rice Burroughs (Walker’s Library): A Princess of Mars2 not only began on of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ many long-running series of adventure novels—alongside the Tarzan, Venus, and Pelludicar stories—but this one novel set a standard for fantastic adventure fiction that cast a shadow so long that many of you don’t realize that you’re standing in […]
Sensor Sweep: Robert McGinnis, Solar Pons, Louis L’Amour, Erol Otis
Monday , 14, April 2025 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentNew (DMR Books): With the release of Swords of Steel IV right around the corner, authors from the book (along with myself) have recently made some appearances on podcasts to discuss it. Art (Mystery File): Death Noted: Artist Robert McGinnis (1926-2025) Robert E. Howard (Michael K. Vaughn): A New Robert E. Howard Biography! Art (The […]
Sensor 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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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; […]
Sensor Sweep: Forgotten Realms, White Dwarf, Averoigne
Monday , 3, March 2025 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentComic Books (Dark Worlds Quarterly): Sword & Sorcery comics were well-established by 1978. Conan the Barbarian, Savage Sword of Conan, The Warlord dominated at Marvel and DC. What wasn’t well-known was the new RPG gaming magazines. The Dragon started as another magazine but launched in its Dragony form June 1976. That magazine offered funny cartoons […]
Sensor 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]