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Vintage Treasures: Frontera by Lewis Shiner
Frontera (Baen Books, August 1984). Cover by Vincent Di Fate I first discovered Lewis Shiner in Gardner Dozois’ Year’s Best Science Fiction anthologies, where he was a regular, and one of my favorite...
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It’s Gonna Be One Helluva War: A preview of Monsters in Hell, volume 24 in...
Kindle and Paperback editions published by Perseid Press. Copyright ©2024, Janet Morris. Book design: Marie Pitrat & Christopher Morris. Cover design: Roy Mauritsen. Monsters in Hell just released...
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A (Black) Gat in the Hand: Dime Detective – August, 1941
“You’re the second guy I’ve met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.” – Phillip Marlowe in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep (Gat — Prohibition Era term for a...
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Conan: City of the Dead, John C. Hocking’s Living Plague is Alive Inside
Conan: City of the Dead, by John C. Hocking (2024, Titan Books. 507p) It’s June of 2024, and Titan Books has just delivered John C. Hocking’s City of the Dead which contains both Conan and the Emerald...
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Ellsworth’s Cinema of Swords: Zhang Yimou
Hero (China/Hong Kong, 2002) The Hong Kong cinema industry’s success as an action-film factory for 50 years starting in the 1960s has meant that most of the Chinese-language movies covered by Cinema...
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Goth Chick News: Crypt-Keeper Fans Rejoice for a New Generation of Horror Comics
Epitaphs From the Abyss #1 (Oni Press, July 24th) In past articles I talked about acquiring contraband horror comics from my older male cousins and reading them by flashlight. Though my dad deemed the...
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A to Z Reviews: “The City of Silence,” by Ma Boyong
Over the past several years, the Anglophonic worlds has become more aware of the science fiction being published in modern China. This is due, in part, to the work and outreach being done by Science...
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A Lovely Work of Magic & Mystery: Vinyl Wonderland by Mark Rigney
Vinyl Wonderland (Castle Bridge Media, June 25, 2024). Cover artist unknown Vinyl Wonderland is Mark Rigney’s new novel. It’s told by an older Brendan Purcell, about some strange happenings back when...
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I Like Big Bugs and I Cannot Lie, Part I
Arachnicide (See Thru Pictures, 2014) I’m sometimes asked why I haven’t got around to watching Oppenheimer or Killers of the Flower Moon yet, and that’s because I’m too busy watching this sort of...
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Christopher Moore and His Very Dirty Job
When talking about banning books, nobody mentions Christopher Moore. No doubt Moore is upset about this, because he’s out to offend pretty much everybody. The fact that he does this with glee,...
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A (Black) Gat in the Hand: John D. MacDonald’s ‘Ring Around the Redhead’
“You’re the second guy I’ve met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.” – Phillip Marlowe in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep (Gat — Prohibition Era term for a...
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Triangulating Moving Targets: Equimedian
Equimedian (Hex Publishers, February 6, 2024). Cover artist unknown When we first meet Jason Velez, the protagonist of my alternative-1970s novel about science fiction, fandom, and the unskeining of...
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The New Haven Incident – Part One
Good afterevenmorn! I know it’s silly greeting, but I’m overly fond of it. Moving swiftly on… I was struggling with what to write for my usual fortnightly post, and so decided that I’ll instead share...
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Lovely Ladies and Pleistocene Behemoths: A Visit to the Hollow Earth with...
Caroline Munro, and a pair of Pleistocene behemoths, in At the Earth’s Core I’ve had a lifelong fascination with “hollow earth” stories, a style of fantasy fiction that presents ancient, lost...
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Goth Chick News: Bill Skarsgård as THE Classic Vampire? Yes Please
It was during the silent movie era, which lasted from 1894 to 1929, that Bram Stoker penned his most famous work, Dracula (1897). However, it wasn’t Stoker who decided to bring his vampire to the...
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A to Z Reviews: “Know Your Target Audience,” by Dan Mygind
In 2010, Carl-Eddy Skovgaard selected several examples of Danish science fiction to be translated into English. The stories were published in the anthology Sky City and included Dan Mygind’s “Know...
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Beating Heart & Battle Axes – New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine Forges a Book
Beating Hearts & Battle Axes – A Romantic Sword & Sorcery Anthology seeking funding, championed by New Edge Sword & Sorcery magazine. Cover Art is by M.E. Morgan New Edge Sword and Sorcery...
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A Year of Demonic Public Service: The Fallible Fiend by L. Sprague de Camp
The Fallible Fiend (Signet/New American Library, February 1973). Cover uncredited This is another in my series of looks at fairly obscure SF from the ’70s and ’80s. In this case, I rescued a book that...
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Remembering Carl Jacobi
Revelations in Black by Carl Jacobi (Jove/HBJ, January 1979). Cover uncredited D.H. Olson delivered this eulogy for Carl Jacobi on Friday, August 29, 1997 at Lakewood Chapel in Minneapolis, Minnesota....
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A (Black) Gat in the Hand: Hardboiled Manila – Jo Gar
“You’re the second guy I’ve met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.” – Phillip Marlowe in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep (Gat — Prohibition Era term for a...
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