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sSensor 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 […]
Sensor Sweep: Weird Tales, Ramsey Campbell, Swords of Steel
Monday , 13, January 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentPulp (Rough Edges): Many, many years ago I read one or two novels by Otis Adelbert Kline and remember enjoying them, but I couldn’t tell you exactly which books I read. I do know, however, that TAM, SON OF THE TIGER wasn’t one of them, because I just read it and I’m certain I’d never […]
Sensor Sweep: Greyhawk, D&D, Cirsova, Iron Wolf
Monday , 6, January 2025 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentRobert E. Howard (M Porcius): Let’s read three stories from my copy of The Book of Robert E. Howard that I think are set in the 19th or 20th centuries and that may or may not have some kind of supernatural element. D&D (Fandom Pulse): Dungeons & Dragons has moved into woke territory to the determinant of […]
Fiction (Semicolon): The Secret of Terror Castle is the first installment in The Three Investigators series of mystery detective stories, also known as Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators. The original series was published from 1964 to 1987 and comprised 43 finished books, written by at least five different authors and illustrated by a multiplicity […]