I’ve made no secret about my hopes to read more works by the Old Reliables out there in the #PulpRevolution blog-o-sphere.  Well, Jesse Abraham Lucas isn’t content to sit around waiting.  Jesse is putting together an anthology: Back in the day a group of SF greats, Poul Anderson, Frank Herbert, Gordon...

Take it away Eleanor! Reading through coverage of this year’s Hugo nominated works, both in mainstream media and in the on-line circles thrilled by the results of E. Pluribus Unum, it’s striking how little conversation there is about…you know…the works themselves. From Wired: Another is that Best Novelette has...

Jim Fear and I had a great conversation recently, and this weekend you’ll be invited to listen in as he guides me through another sprawling conversation about life, sci-fi, and everything.  One of the topics that came up is the inevitable success of the Pulp Revolution, how to recognize...

C ongratulations to the Hugo Award finalists.   A few short thoughts on a few categories:Best Fan Writer: Jeffro JohnsonThis Jeffro guy is getting to be a regular fixture there.  He’s slowly becoming the Sally Fields of the Hugo Awards.  They should just give him one already, then maybe he’ll finally...

This might become a regular feature here, depending on the response.  Sometimes you get an idea for a story that doesn’t warrant the full treatment, but a writer ignores the muse at his peril. Vermin Dualalalop seeped back and forth along the back partition of the forward control orb. ...

Now is the best time to get into independently published science fiction.  Ignore what the marketing people have to say about it.  They deal only in raw, current numbers.  They look for today’s hotness and promise immediate returns, but you’re not interested in tomorrow, you’re looking at the long...

Not the official mock-up cover, but a man can dream… It’s been done before, but never quite like this. A G-plus discussion on the suitability of the pulp ethos for tales set in the modern world got completely out of hand over the weekend. Somebody threw down a gauntlet...

The Hard Buds of SF have those of us who find the technical plausibility of fictional tales a distraction at a distinct disadvantage.  Those of us who prefer not to waste our time analyzing works on the basis of their engineering accuracy are caught in a Catch-22.  If we...

Shadow Vision Preston Dennett’s tale of an outcast, a half-mad sage, and a young girl exploring a land plagued by a near-sentient darkness gives the reader plenty of mystery, magic, action, and even romance, but his delivery never rises above workmanlike.  Dennett writes impending doom well.  He writes casual...

Brace yourself for incoming stupidity, internet.  Recently, the Supreme Dark Lord explained why the appellation “fake” is a two-megaton blast of nuclear rhetoric.  Within 48 hours, I’d already seen the peanut gallery wielding the term “fake” in a hamfisted, Peebee-esque manner. Never change, Mass Effect.  Never change. Here’s a...