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Author Micah S. Harris completes is  Witches of Winter Trilogy with  Portrait of War, Ice, and Dragons.  The erstwhile scholar Ambrose Aurelianus returns to Aarastad incognito as the Marquis of Cawthorne and begins a campaign of revenge against the minions of Lord Melchior in the guise of the Wurger Mendicant.  And that is only the beginning.  The battle between the forces of good Queen Freyja and...

Pulp legend Will Murray has just published a new book on the original radio and pulp versions of The Shadow, Master of Mystery:  The Rise of the Shadow .  The book has interviews with many of the people who contributed to the creation of The Shadow back in the 1930s including Walter Gibson, John Nanovic, Theodore Tinsley, Edd Cartier, and Graves Gladney.  There is even an interview with Jim Steran...

In 1970, Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir published a story they had been working on for several years  Created: The Destroyer.   Over the next year they published volumes 2 and 3 in the series and gave us Remo Williams, Chiun, the history of the House of Sinanju (history's greatest assassins), the secret government agency CURE,  and a stable of colorful villains that have progressed through over 1...

Fred Adams is a retired English professor and a prolific pup writer who specializes in complex adventures with moral dilemmas and supernatural overtones.  His latest novel  Fangs of the Sea  is a rollicking 18th Century sea story Involving Vampires, Zombies, Pirates, Spanish Caribbean Colonists on the lam from the Inquisition, a knowledgeable (though maverick) priest, and a Rogue British Naval Cap...

In the 1960s, Philip Jose Farmer began an in-depth study of the Tarzan stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs to find the true story behind the actual person upon whom Tarzan of the Apes was based.  This included historical studies, reviews of Burke's Peerage , and delving into the scientific bases of a feral man raised by apes.  He also started putting out "feelers" to obtain an interview with the actua...

New Pulp premiere authors Win Scott Eckert and Frank Schildiner  discussed their upcoming novels published by Meteor House Press. It's Always Darkest  by Frank Schildiner This story is set in the Empire of the Nine Universe in the 1970 and involves a a "side story" about another heroic character who became a Candidate of the Nine and how he responds to the revolt of Lord Grandrith and Doc Caliban....

Prolific authors Gail McAbee and Jon Kirsch have written an homage to the legendary American author Robert E. Howard in which he has an adventure fighting beside pastiches of some of his own creations.  It is a delightful and exciting romp with well developed characters interacting with their own creator.  This is a book that every RE Howard fan MUST read! Gail and Jon have written a lot in the Sc...

Author John Molino has written a novel about a young woman who exhibits psychic visions similar to what the US Army and the CIA have investigated as "Remote viewing."  She is not taken seriously by the traditional Intelligence community but her accuracy is too good to be ignored.  As she interacts with the higher echelons of government,  she become concerned about her safety.  Meanwhile, her visio...

Pulp legend Will Murray has written a sequel to his crossover novel  The Doom Legion (which featured The Spider, G-8, and Operator 5)  focusing on The Spider and horrifying invasion of New York by Monstrous robots that start tearing up the subways, and skyscrapers.  Along the way they are killing dozens of people and they are virtually impervious to gun fire!  This is a true Spider story that woul...

Authors Thomas Fortenberry, Robert H. Hudson Jr, Edward Lee Love, Mark Marderosian, and Jeff Deischer are all guests in this show to describe their contributions to the anthology  Once More into the Breach: Atomic Gods and Monsters, Volume 2.  This is a collection of stories from different genres using public domain comic characters from the early 1950s.  It is an entertaining mix of tales with ro...

Prolific writer Jeff Deischer has published  Inner Space a novella set in 1968 using his pastiche version of the THUNDER Agents.  This story involves some of the original characters trying to solve mystery that has them shrinking into the micro world.  ( Lots of influence from Henry Pym and Roy Thomas.  A well crafted superhero story with action and adventure.  Two sequels in this series are plann...

Award winning author Jon Black discusses volume 2 in his Arthurian series Bel Nemeton -  Caledfwch (Kal-ed Fw-ook) .  The title is the earliest Celtic name given to King Arthur's Sword 'Excalibur.'  This novel is the story of Caledfwch's origin in ancient history and the search for it by modern adventurers Dr. Vivian Cuinnsey (Celtic linguist) and Jake Booker (Oil and Gas Engineer).  There is a bi...

Award winning author Micah S. Harris began his Witches of Winter Trilogy  with the novel  Portrait of a Snow Queen.   He has since revised that first volume and published a second volume Portrait of a Winter Court .   The second volume picks up the story where the newly revised first volume stops and carries through to set up the trilogy's third volume which will include more fantasy elements incl...

Jeff Deischer has created his 7th Superhero universe.  This is his 24th superhero novel, and his 50th fiction book.  The New Roundtable book is set in the modern day in a different universe.  The characters are more typical of modern superhero characters and are not the morally simplistic characters of the Gold and Silver Ages of Comics.  This is a another action packed adventure with a few twists...

Author Jeff Deischer has published a novella which is the prequel to his Heritage Universe series in which he reveals the origin of the Sentinels.  This story is set in 1967 when the Charlton Action Heroes ended their publication runs and then began working together in the group known as the Sentinels.  I remember those days  and I am so pleased to see these characters back in action again!  Toy S...

This is a new anthology of prose public domain superhero stories set in 1954 edited by Jeff Deischer with an international collection of authors (including yours truly).  In the interview we have Jeff Deischer, Sebastien Gallois (France),Robert H. Hudson Jr., and Mark Marderosian.  The discussion includes background material on the conception of the anthology,  the background of the authors, and f...

In this interview, Will Murray talks about his newest book The Wild Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1 which collects together 10 of his Sherlock Holmes stories from several anthologies.   He describes the inspiration for several of these stories.  As the title suggests, these stories have "wild" aspects to them which make them particularly enjoyable.  There will be a 2nd and possibly a 3rd v...

Prolific author Jeff Deischer and I discuss the breadth and depth of his fiction output. He has published 40 novels so far in several genres.  Jeff is an excellent writer and you will find something in his oeuvre that I know you will enjoy.  (and this is not to mention his non-fiction works, chronologies and character studies. Below is  a list of Jeff's output: SCIENCE FICTION Divided We Planetfal...

Award winning author Micah S. Harris has published a revised and expanded version of his 2008 classic The Eldritch New Adventures of Becky Sharp in which the  winsome, willful anti-heroine of Thackeray's Vanity Fair meets the Cthulhu Mythos and other literary gems.  It is an enjoyable romp with an amoral wench who nevertheless has you rooting for her as she blusters her way through the Victorian w...

Gerald Welch collaborated with the legendary Warren Murphy on the Legacy series which extends the universe of Remo Williams, the Destroyer and is little father Chiun. Jerry is one of the biggest Destroyer fans around and has not only been writing the stories about Remo's Viking daughter, Freyja Williams, and his Navy Seal son, Stone Smith, as they carry the Sinanju Legacy into the 21st Century. Al...

Crime novelist Gary Phillips has given us a new novel that features a fictionalized version of the real life adventurer Matthew Henson who was a black arctic explorer who is believed to have been the first man to make it to the North Pole even before Commodore Peary who was on the same expedition.  Henson was a larger-than-life character in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s.  This novel (Matthew Henso...

In the continuing series in the Heritage Universe Superhero Series, Jeff Deischer gives us an epic that spans time and space in order the save the world from the ultimate punishment of the Egyptian gods.  The conflict is so large that spreads from 1956 thru 1983 and the superhero team known as the Sentinels from these 2 time periods join forces to do battle with an essentially unbeatable foe!  The...

The Dynamic Duo that underlies Airship 27 have a new project:  Who's Who in New Pulp.  This is a planned directory of the major players in the New Pulp movement: Authors, Artists, Editors, Publishers, and anyone who has contributed to the rekindling of interest in the Old Pulps as well as the recent resurgence in the creation of the New Pulps.  Ron Fortier and Rob Davis are putting this together a...

Author and Scholar Jeff Deischer has issued the second edition of his monumental essay collection "The Way They Were."  The original one volume work has been broken into 3 volumes each dealing with stories from a different time period:  the Victorian Era, the Pulp Era, and modern Action Heroes.  The material has been reformatted with the addition of new essays.  No fan of speculative and adventure...

Author Jeff Deischer gives us a high octane story about what happens when the gods go to war with each other while the Mystery Men and Women of the Sentinels try to intervene.  There is a lot of action and combat in this story along with detailed speculation about how the various Pantheons of the Greeks, the Norsemen, the Egyptians, and other ethnic groups are interrelated to each other.  The figh...