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sSensor Sweep: REH Guide, The High Crusade, Pulp Revolution, D&D, King Kong
Monday , 23, July 2018 Sensor Sweep 8 CommentsWriters (Legends of Men): As you know by now I’m a huge fan of the Conan stories, but I’m also a huge fan of Howard’s other creations, even his poetry. Last June I attended Robert E. Howard Days, a gathering of Howard scholars and fans to celebrate the life and works of Robert E. Howard. While […]
Sensor Sweep: Keys to Other Doors, Xenophile, Skylark of Space, Roger Zelazny
Monday , 16, July 2018 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsPulps (The Pulp Net): When I was first involved in the pulp fandom world in the late ’90s, I saw ads for Keys to Other Doors. Subtitled “some lists for a pulp collector’s notebook,” it was put together by John DeWalt. There were at least two versions, a first version in 1995 with a revised […]
Sensor Sweep: Creeps by Night, Grip, Gatekeeping, The Royal Netherlands Indies Army
Monday , 9, July 2018 Sensor Sweep 4 CommentsBooks (Don Herron): You may not know, but way back in 1931, the up-and-coming Wisconsin writer August Derleth teamed up with the newly famous detective novelist Dashiell Hammett to edit a collection of supernatural horror fiction titled Creeps by Night: Chills and Thrills. Over the next forty years, Derleth would become one of the most […]
Sensor Sweep: Ray Capella, Queen of Communist Cannibals, H. Rider Haggard
Monday , 2, July 2018 Sensor Sweep 4 CommentsWriters (Pulp Hermit): Ray Capella- From Alhambra, California, Ray was a noted illustrator for a number of SF & Fantasy journals before coming over to the Fading Shadows magazines. He contributed a lot of interior and cover art for our SF titles, as well as illustrating heroic characters like Doc Savage and The Shadow. But […]
Sensor Sweep: The Moon Pool, Icky Nerds, and Ballantine Adult Fantasy Ephemera
Monday , 25, June 2018 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsBooks (DMR Books): Today marks the centennial of the first publication of A. Merritt’s novelette, “The Moon Pool.” Such a small thing–only about twenty thousand words–but one that has had an extraordinarily outsized impact in the century since. Before “The Moon Pool” was published, Merritt had made a bit of a name for himself in […]
Sensor Sweep: REH Guide, Realism, Short Stories, Street & Smith Pulp Sales, Star Wars
Monday , 18, June 2018 Sensor Sweep, Uncategorized 4 CommentsBooks (Skelos Press): Presenting the English translation of the award-winning book that introduced a new generation of French fans to the father of sword and sorcery. The Robert E. Howard Guide was born out of years of scholarship, but took its final form after answering the same questions from fans over and over again. In […]
Sensor Sweep: D&D Community, Light novels, Zoe Quinn Comics, 1940
Monday , 11, June 2018 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsRPG (RPG Pundit): So my cat got in the way of my latest video; but the overall point is still clear (and slightly cuter, thanks to the cat): there’s no such thing as a real “D&D Community”. There’s a D&D Hobby, but the notion of a “Community” is a combination of a marketing tactic by […]
Sensor Sweep: Game Reviews, Battletech, 1920s Weird Fiction, C. C. Senf, Ballantine Adult Fantasy
Monday , 4, June 2018 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsPublishing (Walker’s Retreat): That’s an opportunity I cannot ignore. It is also an opportunity I am undercapitalized to exploit. To remedy this, I set up at Freestartr. I will add this link to the Gifts & Support tab today, right at the top, for future convenience. My post at the Study yesterday addresses the immediate uses I have […]
Sensor Sweep: Sudden Rescue, Solo, Stasis, H. Warner Munn
Monday , 28, May 2018 Sensor Sweep 9 CommentsBooks (Shadowridge Press): Available again for the first time in 45 years, Shadowridge Press is proud to present Manly Wade Wellman’s WORSE THINGS WAITING, one of the cornerstone short story collections in the fantasy and horror genres. Originally published by the legendary imprint Carcosa, Worse Things Waiting gathers 28 stories and two poems, selected from […]
Sensor Sweep: Fragged Kingdom, Argosy, Mighty Warriors, Captain Future, and The Spider
Monday , 21, May 2018 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentGaming (Modiphius): “The Archdruid is dead! Now is the time to reclaim the world for civilisation. Akharon is a world scarred by a magical druidic war and overflowing with monsters. Much has been lost, waiting to be reclaimed by those bold enough to set foot outside of civilisation’s last bastion, Stronghold. It is a world […]
Sensor Sweep: Shannach- The Last, Hero Kids, Solo, E. R. Eddison
Monday , 14, May 2018 Sensor Sweep 4 CommentsBooks (Haffner Press): “Picking up where Lorelei of the Red Mist: Planetary Romances left off, this volume collects the final 17 stories of strange adventures on other worlds from the undisputed “Queen of Space Opera.” Drawn from the last years of pulp magazines such as Planet Stories, Startling Stories, and digests magazines like Venture Science Fiction, Shannach – The Last: Farewell […]
Sensor Sweep: ERB fonts, Robert Bloch Vampires, Mouse Wars, and The Punisher
Monday , 7, May 2018 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentPublishing (Recoverings): “It’s the nature of fandom. Every fan wants to hold his or her hobby close, be part of it, and contribute to it in some way. Writing, drawing, researching about action, the exotic worlds, the beautiful women and heroic men, the incredible beasts and unknown races are the life’s blood of many an Edgar […]