Volume 3, Issue 2 of The Spider magazine (July 1934) is as clear an indication as any that Norvell Page (writing as Grant Stockbridge) is n...

The Double-Edged Sword & Sorcery crowdfunding campaign from Brackenbury Books presents two historical Swords & Sorcery novellas ( W...

In 1985, NPR ran a Doc Savage serial in the style of old-time radio. The series adapted two of the original novels by Lester Dent Fear Cay ...

Larry MacDougall released another book in his Redwall-esque fantasy series, Gwelf last month. This one is called Gwelf: Into the Hinterlands...

On my recent vacation, I decided to check out the men's adventure paperback series Fargo by John Benteen after discovering the whole ser...

Seven Blades in Black is the first volume of The Grave of Empires series by Sam Sykes. A scarred, gunslinging bounty hunter with a magical ...

  Gwelf: The Survival Guide (2021) is a gorgeous art book by Larry MacDougall who once upon a time did art for Palladium and Magic: The Gat...

 Over the past few months, I've been on a science fiction reading kick. Here's most of what I read, leaving out only a few classic s...

Driving over the Thanksgiving holiday my family listened to the audiobook of  The Patchwork Girl of Oz,  and I was struck by how similar Bau...

I think there is a lineage of science fiction name coining that whose progenitor is Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars stories but that passes t...

Thinking about the phylogenetic connection between the Lost Worlds of Victorian adventure fiction and the planetary romances of last century...

Hear me out! I'm aware, course, that there are many works that we would now call fantasy that predate Lord of the Rings , but the concep...

 I've gotten into 2 good fantasy novels with connections to British esoteric spiritual belief at the turn of the 20th Century which are ...

 The map of Conan's world by Katrin Dirim  I shared the other day was interesting not just because her her artistic style (though that&#...

This is the second in a series of chats between Anne of DIY & Dragons and me about dungeoncrawling (or dungeoncrawling inspiring) scienc...

The varied worlds appearing in the short fiction of science fiction magazines in the 30s through the 50s have a lot to offer any of the rece...

Uranus figures prominently in the Captain Future story The Magician of Mars published in 1941 . Here are some details on Hamilton's ver...

A few passages from science fiction of the pulp era to get the creative juices flowing. "Carse walked beside the still black waters in ...

I recently finished reading The Books of Babel tetralogy by Josiah Bancroft. The series was so engaging I plowed through them all, only tak...

  Owls Hoot in the Day Time & Other Omens was the title of the 2003 collection of Manly Wade Wellman's John the Balladeer/Silver Joh...