Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 6 May 2023
Saturday , 6, May 2023 Uncategorized Leave a commentEvery week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy.
Apocalypse Redux #3 – Jakob H. Greif
The [System] was intended to be humanity’s salvation. But it turned out to be a double-edged sword that could just as easily lead to its destruction.
Following a series of thankfully successful efforts in Europe, Isaac travels overseas to show the world new ways of leveling, gather new allies, and gain power in the Dungeons that have cropped up.
The whole affair would be perfectly doable, if it weren’t for the cult trying to destroy his work, the looming threat of another [System] Event, and the general, ever present danger of humanity’s darkest aspects and the monsters they spawn.
Will humanity stand proud and stop the first demons to emerge in this new timeline, or be swept away in a flood of hellfire?
Die By the Sword – edited by D. M. Ritzlin
From the hells beneath the hells comes a brand-new anthology of sword and sorcery adventure! DMR Books presents yet another tome of fantastic tales by some of the most exciting authors in the field today. These scribes of blood and thunder maintain the legacy of classic sword and sorcery while expanding it into uncharted terrain.
Join Morcar as he supplicates a fierce goddess in a blood ritual to avenge his kin and reclaim his home… Come face-to-face with Roman legionaries and vicious dogmen in a haunted riverside adventure of Simon of Gitta… Ride with Duke Eldol as he steeps the Conqueror’s Spear in the blood of Saxon invaders and wages war on a corrupt Briton king… Hunt down a vampyre sorceress in an enchanted crystalline pyramid with Karnov, Phantom-Clad Rider of the Cosmic Ice… Whether to claim riches, a lusty wench or their own vengeance, the latest exploits of these and other mighty heroes come to vivid life within these pages. Experience the thrill as they slay and conquer in savage lands.
Forgotten Empire (Space Raiders #2) – Ken Lozito
Lots of secrets are hidden within the galaxy, and Nathan Briggs is on the hunt for the biggest one.
A chance encounter with a strange creature puts Nathan on the trail of a lost civilization that predates everything else in the galaxy.
For thousands of years, many have abandoned the deadly search, but there are powerful forces that will do anything to possess the promised technological marvels that will change everything.
Determined to uncover the truth, Nathan joins the hunt, but when the race for the ultimate prize turns deadly, it will test the loyalty of his crew. To the victor goes the spoils, while the others become yet another tragic end, lost while pursuing the forgotten empire.
Hacking Galileo – Fenton Wood
A story untold for over 30 years…
Teenage hacker Roger O. Miller made national headlines when he was arrested for hacking into NASA computers and hijacking an interplanetary probe. He told the authorities a wild story about a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Eventually, he recanted and admitted that he fabricated the whole thing.
Or did he?
For the first time, his closest confederate tells the real story of what motivated a group of brainy teenagers to create an illegal space program under the noses of the authorities. It all started with a radio experiment that led to an accidental discovery…
HACKING GALILEO is a tech memoir by an insider, full of ingenious exploits and fascinating details about the aerospace technology of the 1980’s.
Author and publisher alike are risking Federal retaliation by publishing this book. Is it a true account, or a clever work of fiction? What is the Terrible Secret of Space, and what does it have to do with the origin of the rogue asteroid? Read it for yourself–while you still can!
Light Unto Another World #7 – Yakov Merkin
To the chagrin of warriors, wars are fought as much in the conference room and in the shadows as on the battlefield.
To ensure victory, the warrior must find a way to maneuver each across of these battlegrounds
This challenge is never so tough as it is when friends are caught in the middle.
While the war continues to go well, Uriel and his closest supporters can see new troubles on the horizon. Both in their powerful enemies, and in allies who are tired of war and who see Uriel as much a liability as an asset.
While they deal with this, however, their enemies, having failed to defeat the elf/demi-human alliance on the battlefield, turn to a more underhanded approach to ensure that the alliance is split, and one of their major foes removed from the playing field.
When the elf kingdom Valtenar shortly finds itself amidst a crisis, it will be up to Uriel and his team to come up with a solution to both the military and political problems simultaneously.
But this time, they might not get out of it totally unscathed.
Forgotten Empire (Space Raiders #2) – Ken Lozito
Lots of secrets are hidden within the galaxy, and Nathan Briggs is on the hunt for the biggest one.
A chance encounter with a strange creature puts Nathan on the trail of a lost civilization that predates everything else in the galaxy.
For thousands of years, many have abandoned the deadly search, but there are powerful forces that will do anything to possess the promised technological marvels that will change everything.
Determined to uncover the truth, Nathan joins the hunt, but when the race for the ultimate prize turns deadly, it will test the loyalty of his crew. To the victor goes the spoils, while the others become yet another tragic end, lost while pursuing the forgotten empire.
Gemini Man: The Complete Series – a Kickstarter by J. D. Cowan
The Gemini Man stars young adult Matthew White and teenager Jason Vermilion as they find themselves attached to bracelets named Castor and Pollux, both of which give them strange powers unlike anything on Earth . . . or other planets! The trilogy starts with the two escaping an experiment and landing in a whole new world where magic lives and an unknown people roam. Can they escape their pursuers, or are they destined to be fuel for some warped alien being? The trilogy traces their journey from captives to free men, in more ways than one.
The crowd-funded campaign will close on 2 June, 2023.
Ghost of the Badlands – a crowd funding campaign by Razorfist and George Alexopoulos
Who is the Ghost? Man or myth? Flesh or phantom? Is he a ghostly stranger who wandered out of the Arizona desert to deal divine judgment upon the modern Gomorrah of Canyon Diablo? Or is he a survivor of godless effrontery… plucked from his grave by beings unknown, to visit upon evil men the ravages to which they subject the weak? Whatever his origin, the result is the same: Gunfight after gunfight, body after body, coffin after coffin, legend soon grows of this phantom of the high desert.
The badlands swirl with whispers of a lone pistoleer. A one-man vendetta ride, wielding a mechanical weapon of the Old World, to cleanse the heathen with hails of gunfire. Rumors soon circulate of an entire army, cloaked in shadow, his faceless foot soldiers. Eventually, folk find a name for this mute, masked missionary of death…
THE GHOST OF THE BADLANDS.
Inspired by storytelling traditions both East & West, the team will be pleased to release TWO versions of this first edition: A Softcover inspired by manga, and Hardcover inspired by Bande Desinee.
The crowd-funded campaign will close on 21 May, 2023.
Misha Burnett’s Small Worlds – a Kickstarter from Cirsova
Ours is a culture that adores the elephantine, the cyclopean, the Brobdingnagian. Bigger is better, we are told, and the biggest is the best. People love big stories, with a cast of thousands, and Vista-vision widescreen special effects. Heroes must be larger than life, and devils blacker than they are painted, and entire worlds must be set aflame to create an ever-growing hunger for spectacle.
Oh, says I, that’s interesting. But that’s not what I do.
I write short stories, about little people in small worlds. That’s what you’ll find in this collection. In a couple of cases, they are literally small worlds, flyspeck heavenly bodies far out in space. In others the constraints are more metaphysical, worlds bounded by the vision of their inhabitants, an event horizon close enough to almost touch.
But one mustn’t suppose that the Lilliputian character of these stories means that nothing of significance happens in them.
Small worlds need saving, too.
The crowd-funded campaign will close on 31 May, 2023.
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