Two mostly honest bounty hunters save the universe in style.
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Lightspeed Magazine 152, January 2023
Branching out a bit, finding both new authors and a reassuringly familiar format.
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Nightmare Magazine, January and February 2023
Two fresh editions of the ‘zine which Treats Horror Very Seriously…
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The Dark Magazine, January and February 2023
A favorite gins up two more compact, lovingly-crafted missives to the world.
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Nietzsche x K. Gorman = Strong Space Opera
Abysses, archetypes, gods and demons and spaceships and horror and…
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The second volume of The Reckoning Cycle is even better than the first. Adventure, intrigue and intelligently-drawn characters swirl together in a compelling read.
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The Lost -- And Last? -- Metal
The fourth read in a seven-volume series. Time for a new theme?
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“Rare But Serious Side Effects Include Confusion, Nausea, Temporal Dislocation, Dissociation and Premature Brain Death.”
"Who Is Johnny B. Truant?" -- Part 1.5
A Delayed Addition To The January, 2023 Featured Artist
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Battling for Bremen
Steve Higgs brings us a surprisingly human wizard/private eye from the heart of North Germany. Non-Teutonic hijinks ensue…
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Being human may mean less than we think…
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A David Drake Trifecta
Three books from a masterful writer, the “father of military SF” — and much more.
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The Masters
A vintage SF/vampire short story.
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I did what now? No, exactly what was it I did?
Underwhelming
in Rants, Reading Notes
In which I overreact to an underwhelming and annoying email from Amazon Kindle.
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Grim and Dark and New?
in Reading Notes, SFF
The January 2023 edition brings grim-dark fiction and asks some good questions.
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January 2023’s author focus zeros in on a vampire and unicorn fan.
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Reginald Bretnor In Review
An interesting and unusual man who wrote some interesting and unusual things.
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Most-Loved Authors of 2022
in EOTY
The top 20% from 2022.
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From Ghost Galaxy to the Black Table: 2022 In Review
in EOTY
The first but still much-dreaded year in review post.
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Black Table
When is good good enough? And does it matter if it’s written in Finnish or English?
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The Slow Sad Suicide of Rohan Wijeratne
Deep thoughts about existence, God and a black hole’s event horizon.
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