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Fiction (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. […]

Publishing (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 […]

Comic 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 […]

Fiction (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 […]

Pulp (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 […]

Robert 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 […]

D&D (Havard’s Blackmoor Blog): Jon Peterson announced at The Playing at the World Facebook Page that the new edition of his book will be ready soon:  It has been something of an epic journey since 2012. Playing at the World returns shortly in its new MIT Press edition – or at least, the first volume […]

Star Wars (Fandom Pulse): George Lucas elaborated on his critique, saying, “It’s like, ‘I saw something, let’s do something like that.’ It’s also a way that movies are sold. If you go in and say, ‘I’ve got something that you’ve never seen before and you don’t understand it,’ it’s very hard to get a deal.” […]

Comic Books (Fandom Pulse): Marvel Ultimate’s stretch has been going for some time now, but the most recent Ultimate Spiderman, which started in January, brought waves of excitement back into the comic industry. The main cover of the first issue hit over $100 on eBay! This had some fans weary that Marvel would not stay […]

Comic Books (Fandom Pulse): Disney might have accidentally dropped some damning news for the mainstream comic industry in the form of a job listing. Comic shops have been struggling at all-time lows for sales heading into the second half of 2024, and now, it appears as if Marvel Comics may be on the chopping block. […]