The Priests of Shalaz Jay Barnson presents us with this story of a gateway linking turn of the twentieth century earth with a far flung alien world populated by almost humans.  Our hero, Jesse, had been marooned on a small island somewhere in the British Empire and survived for...

Happy Three for Three!  Today’s the day to review bomb Amazon.com.  Pick three books that you really should have reviewed by now and write at least three sentences about them.  Post these reviews to Amazon and you are done.  If you pick your favorite independent author, you’ll be doing...

With the release of the fifth issue of Cirsova looming on the horizon, I’d really better start moving on these story reviews.  My reading backlog isn’t getting any smaller! Lost Men P. Alexander really doesn’t care for your genre distinctions, and just to prove it (again), he follows a...

Great news for Cirsova Fans: Issues Five and Six are fully funded.  The Kickstarter managed to beat it’s goal by more than 25%, and we get another year of great short fiction.  Let’s celebrate with some reviews! The Witch of Elrica A nice light read featuring an illegitimate prince...

…And of course when I say, “We need to talk,” what I mean is, “I need to lecture you about.” The mastermind behind Cirsova Magazine knew what he was doing when he commissioned “My Name Is John Carter” and spread it out over several issues.  He’s got me hooked...

My continuing quest to review every story in Cirsova’s fourth issue has me feeling a little nervous.  I fell in love with the first two issues, and enjoyed the third, but this one is off to a rocky start.  The first story was so-so, the second one pretty darn...

I’m glad I read Down to Sheol, even though it is well outside of my normal bailiwick.  This book contains no ogres, princesses, zap guns, hyperspace malfunctions, or hungry gods lurking in lava filled arctic caves.  Instead, it’s a modern day noir set amid the small stakes of rural...

Sword and Flower, by Rawle Nyanzi, represents a huge load off of my mind. Rawle is one of the earliest adopters of the Pulp Revolution, and for me he represents a chance to get a good, solid assessment of whether this is really the early days of something special...

The Castalia House blog is on fire these days.  The new writers line-up, of which my Wargame Wednesday offerings are the least, is brilliant, and the comments section has been blowing up, too.  Not just in terms of quantity, but quality as well. My own contribution to a recent conversation requires...

The Pulp Revolution loves itself some pulpy fantasy and science fiction.  It’s currently undergoing a long and protracted conversation about where exactly the genre took a left turn for the worse.  There are a lot of theories and finger pointing, with some rather elegant defenses of particular styles.  Loud...