Warlord of Mars 4
John Carter, chief helps Dejah Thoris. Green guys not dumb enough to get killed defying him.
3.5 out of 5
March 2011
Blogging Sax Rohmer's The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu 5 The Coughing Horror - William Maynard
““The Coughing Horror” was the fifth installment of Sax Rohmer’s Fu-Manchu and Company. The story was first published in Collier’s on April 3, 1915 and was later expanded to comprise Chapters 14-17 of the second Fu-Manchu novel, The Devil Doctor first published in the UK in 1916 by Cassell and in the US by McBride & Nast under the variant title, The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu.”
4 out of 5
http://www.blackgate.com/2011/02/18/blogging-sax-rohmer’s-the-return-of-dr-fu-manchu-part-five-–-“the-coughing-horror”/
Rampant - Saskia Walker
Your good old-fashioned erotic occult novel.
A woman moves to another location and becomes involved, sometimes literally, in the goings on of the local witchy types. A good researcher, who is of course a hunky babe, a femme fatale, the evil master and slave woman and others. Throw in a ghost from the past as a bonus.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.everyonesreading.com/thank-you/?bookid=124&format=epub
SFX Interview - John Noble
“FX: Are the showrunners building towards an endgame?
“When I was hired to do this JJ Abrams said to me it’s a six-year story arc if we can keep going. Just talking to [showrunners] Jeff Pinkner and Joel Wyman they could do more, because the material’s so rich they could go anywhere. They could also do less. They haven’t written themselves into a corner where if the show has to go out after three, four, five years it’s going to be left hanging, because no-one wants that. So they’ve left options open for themselves, but I know they were told to write six years.””
4 out of 5
http://www.sfx.co.uk/2011/03/22/fringe-john-noble-interview/
The Last Of His Kind - Bill Ward
Wyrm hunting problems.
2.5 out of 5
The White Wyrm - C. L. Werner
The White Wyrm - C. L. Werner
http://flashingswords.sfreader.com/issues/issue3/vol1-iss3-02.asp
“It is no use, Ragnar! By Odin’s axe, cast the Christian overboard!” one of the giants struggling with the beitass snarled.
…
“With a terrific yell, the savages were upon him once more. Wolf spun on his heel, splitting the skull of a club-wielding dwarf with a downward thrust of his sword, dropping the creature immediately in a puddle of brains and blood.”
…
“The dagger, caked in the dried blood of innumerable sacrifices to the every hungry Huitzilopotchli so that it scarcely retained the shape of a blade at all, seemed to exude a preternatural stench of death and corruption.”
…
“Blood slopped from Quetzalcoatl’s neck in a gory waterfall as the monster reared upwards.”
3 out of 5
Cop Land
When I grew up I want to be a big city cop, Superboy.
Just not a corrupt criminal bastard one.
4 out of 5
Gods of the North - Robert E. Howard
Gods of the North - Robert E. Howard
Conan meets a very pale woman after fighting a battle in the frozen north. She is haughty, and arrogant, and summons a couple of her brothers to fight Conan. Giant men they might be, but the Cimmerian grabs them, and then grabs the girl.
She calls to her father Ymir, and disappears. Conan wakes up - was it all a dream?
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600751.txt
4 out of 5
http://media.rawvoice.com/podcastle/media.libsyn.com/media/podcastle/PC162_GodsOfTheNorth.mp3
The Walkers from the Crypt 2 City of the Dead - Howard A. Jones
” “Something… someone… waved for me to follow.”
There was no time for hesitation. Not hearing the Galtans made her more concerned about their position. If they reached the valley before her team cleared it…
Yet it was unlike Arcil to sound so indecisive. Or troubled. “A Galtan?” she asked.
“Arcil may not be as suave as he thinks he is, but he’s a good man to have in a fight.”
“I think it may have been a ghost,” Arcil admitted.”
2.5 out of 5
http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/p/paizoPublishingLLC/pathfinder/tales/serial/v5748dyo5lbz0
Disambiguation - Ian Sales
Ganymedia separation. With flying boats.
4 out of 5
http://althistfiction.com/free-stories-and-reviews/disambiguation-by-ian-sales/
http://itdoesnthavetoberight.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/disambiguation2.pdf
The Walkers from the Crypt 1 The Diversion - Howard A. Jones
“”They’re not baying.” Vallyn stepped out from behind the boulder and peered out at the grassland. “Does that bother anyone else? Shouldn’t they be howling at us?”“
3 out of 5
http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/p/paizoPublishingLLC/pathfinder/tales/serial/v5748dyo5lbxv
Black Gate Interviews 3 - Howard A. Jones
“We’ve talked about historical fiction and historical fantasy, but you also have a history with gaming. Tell us a bit about your new Pathfinder novel, Plague of Shadows.
James Sutter, the editor of the Pathfinder line, is pretty selective about what he buys, so when I was invited to submit ideas I had to throw several his way before one finally took. I think the line in the pitch that hooked him was “Jirel of Joiry crossed with Unforgiven.” I made it clear that I wasn’t going to lift the plot or character, but that I was going to strive for a similar feel. As for the subject matter, I think that James described it pretty well in a blurb he posted recently: “It revolves around the exploits of not one but two bands of adventurers journeying in eastern Avistan, two decades apart. The parties are connected by Elyana, an elf seeking to cure her former adventuring partner (and former lover) Stelan from a curse that’s connected to events — and people — from their shadowy past. Elyana’s journey will take her and her companions from Taldor to Galt, into Kyonin and to the Vale of Shadows, where the consequences of events decades before will affect Stelan’s future.””
4 out of 5
http://www.blackgate.com/2011/03/02/black-gate-interviews-howard-andrew-jones-part-three/
Black Gate Interviews 2 - Howard A. Jones
“When I started I had no idea that there would even be an undertaking. I was just curious about all the stories he’d written that hadn’t ever been reprinted. There were a lot of them. One day while hunting used book search sites I saw two titles offered by the same seller. At that point I knew what all the names of Lamb’s published books were, yet these were unknown to me. I looked into the matter and discovered that these were some complete stories removed from pulp magazines and sewn into hardback covers by the late Dr. John Drury Clark for his personal reading. He had a box full of additional unreprinted Lamb stories, unbound, that Dr. Clark’s widow hadn’t put on the market because, she said, they were in pretty bad shape, though intact. I bought them, and as a result soon owned the bulk of Lamb’s uncollected fiction. It truly was like a treasure trove to me.”
4 out of 5
http://www.blackgate.com/2011/02/23/black-gate-interviews-howard-andrew-jones-part-two/
Black Gate Interviews 1 - Howard A. Jones
“I’m glad you mentioned that, because I thought I noticed a shift towards a more specifically historical context with The Desert of Souls — you always did have the great texture of pre-Medieval Near Eastern culture in the Dabir and Asim stories, and a fair touch of the legendary and mythic traditions of those times, but the novel really roots them in a time and place. Did you do much in the way of deliberate research for the period? Would you say the ‘historical fantasy’ approach is more difficult to pull off than one unattached to real world chronology or geography?”
3.5 out of 5
http://www.blackgate.com/2011/02/16/black-gate-interviews-howard-andrew-jones-part-one/
