Cirsova – How Thaddeus Quimby the Third and I Almost Took Over the World
Bruh. That title. There’s a recent fad going around the midwiteratti where they crown thier snoozefest Hugo bait stories with wuh-wacky long titles that are LOL so random: The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington The Tale of the...
Happy Independence Day!
Let’s celebrate Old Glory by talking about the glories of New Publishing. We’d better enjoy this holiday while we can – there’s no telling how many more we’ve got left. Specifically, we’ve got a couple of canaries in the old media’s Woke/Broke Coalmine to talk about. If you’ve ever...
The Great LibertyCon Book Sale
You’re almost out of time to catch up on an eclectic tribe of awesome! For cheap. With the LibertyCon Science Fiction Convention about to convene in Chattanooga, Tennessee, some attending authors and friends are offering a few of their most popular ebooks for only $0.99. For most books, the...
Cirsova – Born to Storm the Citadel of Mettathok
Author D.M. Ritzlin is one of the creative minds behind the Swords of Steel collection, which is billed as “written by members of such underground heavy metal bands as Manilla Road, Bal-Sagoth, Solstice, Cauldron Born, Twisted Tower Dire, and others.” Ritzlin certainly captures that ethos with a story of...
Cirsova – The Idol In The Sewers
A thief, strong-armed into stealing an idol from a subterranean inhuman stronghold, is the story of story cliché that has been done to death. Kenneth Gower breathes new life into this staple of sword and sorcery by not only moving the action underground but by putting the protagonist in the center...
Cirsova 2.1.2 – Atop the Cliffs of Ral-Gri
The second story in the first issue of the second volume of the first rate magazine Cirsova once more takes us to a remote corner of the earth where lurk things best left to slumber. Though I’m looking forward to reading Xavier Lastra’s The Elephant Idol, we’re going to power through this...
Not so Good Omens
Not impressed. Terry Pratchett has an impressive gift for stringing words together. The man could make the back of a cereal box interesting to read. His brain works in strange ways that follow clever paths, a trait that helps him paper over the thinness of his works’ overall plots and characters...
New Review: Five Million Watts
Fenton Woods produced a sequel one of my favorite reads of last year, Pirates of the Electromagnetic Airwaves. I have an in-depth review of the sequel, Five Million Watts up today over at the Castalia House blog. Give her a read – you won’t regret it....
Needs More Templars
What sort of conspiracy theory digs into the Catholic Church and doesn’t find Templars at the bottom of everything? This kind. The past decade has seen considerable upheaval in the Catholic Church, an upheaval driven in part by the decreased cost of gathering information. No longer reliant on pliable...
Get In, Loser
A big fat No Prize to anyone that can successfully identify all five authors in this photo, and you get no credit for the unmistakable HP Lovecraft....