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No. 12 Alfred Elgin van Vogt, Weapons Masters, and The Big Three.

No. 12 Alfred Elgin van Vogt, Weapons Masters, and The Big Three.

$1995.00. For 15 pages. That’s how much a copy of A. E. van Vogt’s speech, Tomorrow on the March, goes for today. He delivered this speech as the guest of honor at PACIFICON, July 4, 1946. I have to wonder what he would have to say about ... Read More »

Thinking Outside the Boiler: A Few Novels Not Always Classified as Steampunk

Thinking Outside the Boiler: A Few Novels Not Always Classified as Steampunk

Taking a short break from science horror to talk some more about steampunk, because our superior mechanical overlords assure me it’s the next big thing. But what exactly is steampunk? Instead of wading into a potentially contentious debate abou... Read More »

Resurrecting the Literary Dead

Resurrecting the Literary Dead

Though William Faulkner is often attributed with the expression “In writing, you must kill your darlings,” the expression first appeared in a lecture On the Art of Writing by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch as, “Whenever you fell an impulse to penetrate a p... Read More »

Lost In Space! Reviews of Unknown or Underappreciated Books: #2 Emergence by David R. Palmer

Lost In Space! Reviews of Unknown or Underappreciated Books: #2 Emergence by David R. Palmer

Hello again, and welcome back! So – what, exactly, do I mean by ‘unknown or underappreciated’? To put it simply – not everyone is a Kevin J. Anderson or David Weber or Eric Flint or Robert Heinlein. Some authors – I would venture to say, ... Read More »

Five Military SF Novellas by Five Authors

Five Military SF Novellas by Five Authors

Five by Five Aaron Allston Kevin J. Anderson Loren L. Coleman B. V. Larson Michael A. Stackpole WordFire Press electronic only $4.99 Kindle B&N Kobo Smashwords I thought I’d look at some good old fashioned military science fiction for my fi... Read More »

Review of the Martian War

Review of the Martian War

The Martian War by Kevin J. Anderson is a literary retrospective of writer H.G. Wells. It is a story based on the on the original War of the Worlds invasion premise, but this time around, several characters from other classic works by Wells partake i... Read More »