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Author Gary Rabuzzi reads from his highly rated novel "Violence in Bloom."

Pulp legend Will Murray has written a new novel that crosses over 3 of the most popular Pulp Heroes of the 1930s:  The Spider, Jimmy Christopher (Operator 5), and G-8.  Will has taken these characters and fleshed them out into more realistic and complex protagonists.  Meanwhile, the prose is smooth and action is non-stop.  This is a real "Wild Adventure" story when a mysterious meteorite lands on...

Author Andrew Salmon and I discuss the Berlin Noir series by deceased author Philip Kerr who died in June, 2018.  We describe the series and its impact on adventure fiction over the last 30 years.  We also give a brief description of the final unpublished story in the series "Metropolis" which will be published next year. Andrew discusses his plans for further stories in the Eby Stokes Victorian f...

Jim Beard and John Breuning discuss the output of there publishing house Flinch Books.

This is a reading by a new author who has 6 5-star reviews at Amazon! Her story deals with Transhumanism in the coming future ages.

Based on an interview that Philip Jose Farmer Published before the publication of the official biography  "Tarzan Alive."   Well done and very entertaining.

Author Roger Alford discusses his New Pulp Hero (Protagonist?) The Black Spectre in his first Adventure "Ghosts in the Asylum".  This is a Pulp hero with a difference.  He is not a "goody two shoes" but a man trying to overcome his disabilities as he reluctantly ends up fighting against the forces of evil.  We get to see a hero growing into something more as he uses his powers to overcome his own...

Award winning author Wayne Reinagel has published a new novel, 'The Castaway.'  Set in the mid-19th Century, a British physician and a ship's captain are marooned on a desert island in the Indian Ocean.  Wounded with no hope of rescue, they struggle to survive.  Meanwhile some dark and malevolent power is set loose upon the Island and an apocalyptic confrontation is inevitable. Set in the Infinite...

Author and Pulp scholar Jeff Deischer collects 13 of his Essays on the Doc Savage Milieu along with an interview with Will Murray on the Wild Adventures of Doc Savage.  This is a seminal work by one of the few people who ever did a complete chronology of the Doc Savage Saga.  There are lots of fun facts and fascinating speculation about the Man of Bronze, his aides, and what the stories seem to te...

Award winning author Jon Black makes his first appearance on our show to discuss his novel Bel Nemeton which tells the story of the wizard Merlin from Arthurian legend and what happened to him after the death of King Arthur as a modern search goes on to find his tomb in the 21st Century.  Jon is a professional writer who has spent time in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East.  He has a degree in...

James Bojaciuk is the co-publisher of 18th Wall Productions and a contributing author to several anthologies.  He has a penchant for pulp/noir mystery stories with an occultic twist.  He is also a fan an contributor to Dr. Who inspired fiction in the Faction Paradox series.  We had a free wheeling discussion of so many stories that will fill your reading schedule for most of the summer.  Check it...

I am joined by Tom and Ginger Johnson and Diana and Chris Rubino for a free wheeling discussion of Robert Hasting's Book "UFOs & Nukes."  This is a long discussion of many aspects of the UFO phenomena associated with American (and Russian) nuclear weapons bases AND SO MUCH MORE!  Tom was a security policeman at Grand Forks Air Force Base in 1977 when UFOs flew over the base and disabled the comput...

Author Jeff Deischer one of the few men to personally write a chronology of the entire Doc Savage corpus gives us a Doc Savage pastiche set in 1999 bringing the story up into modern times.  And it works! This is a story with plenty of action, Easter Eggs for the diehard fan, and an understanding of the character and his legacy that only a master pulp writer and Pulp chronicler could give us!  This...

Authors Fred Adams and Kaushik Karforma describe their contributions t the sixth volume of new Secret Agent X stories from Airship 27. Fred Adams' story "Island in the Sky" has been several years in the making.  What if a plague epidemic was sweeping the world in the late 1930s and the very wealthiest people n the world were offered safe haven in a an enormous luxury airship?  Secret Agent X goes...

Author Jeff Deischer continues his Saints and Sinners Series with volume 2:  Four in the Way .  Four escaped convicts are flying through Outer Space in an ancient warship trying to escape from the mercenary Templars. Along the way they try to scrounge what resources they can to make good their escape from The Borderlands. This sequel to Four on the Run continues this saga of Outer Space excitement...

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Doc+Ardan As we await the publication of Will Murray's latest Doc Savage stories Mr. Calamity and Valley of Eternity  which will be available very soon, I thought it would be interesting to recommend some of the pastiches to the doc savage stories that have been published in recent years. The links below will di...

Author Jeff Deischer gives us a novel in new genre of speculative fiction: Stories of the wild frontier ion a future terraformed Mars.  Three archetypal protagonists come together on a quest for a lost treasure all reminiscent of "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."  But this in no mere retelling of a classic story. There are twists and turns and surprises as the story barrels along to its conclusio...

Author Bobby Nash has collaborated with Australian author Frank Dirscherl for a new novel in the pulp adventure series starring Frank's creation "The Wraith."  This novel tells for the first time the origin of the Wraith in prose format.  The Wraith has been a successful character in both comics and prose and this represents a re-launching of the character both in Australia and here in the USA. Bo...

Author Diana Rubino discusses her new historical novels.  Sharing Hamilton is about the first sex scandal in American politics when it was revealed that Founding Father Alexander Hamilton was having an affair with a married woman.  There is also a murder mystery that adds to the tension of the story.  Eliza Jumel Burr: Vice Queen of America tells the story of Eliza Jumel who became Aaron Burr's se...

Award winning author Andrew Salmon has written 5 Sherlock Holmes stories for the Airship 27 Series: Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective .  Two of these stories have received Pulpworks Awards for Best Short Story.  The other three have bee nominated for awards.  This is an excellent collection of some of Andrews's best work. These are now collected together for the first time in Sherlock Holmes I...

This is the first visit of author Michael Howard to Art's Reviews.  He has written a new adventure for early Pulp hero The Gray Seal. This is the first new Gray Seal adventure in 80 years!  Canadian author Frank Packard had created an iconic character that predated the classic pulp heroes by 2 decades and was the inspiration for many of the heroes that followed including the Shadow, the Spider, Ba...

Pulp Legend and author extraordinaire Will Murray is preparing 2 new Doc Savage adventures for the Christmas season.  He also has the go ahead to do Wild Adventures of other classic pulp characters for 2018.  Thee will be a crossover novel involving the Spider, Operator #5, and G-8 set in the 1930s.  Another Spider novel is in the works, and much, much more! Plus Will continues contributing to oth...

Author and Publisher Gary Lovisi has published volumes 4 and 5 in his Jon Kirk Adventure series.  This is a contemporary reimagining of a swords, sorcery, and space opera series like ERB's John Carter of Mars. In the 4th and 5th volumes in this series, Jon Kirk consolidates his power on the planet Ares and starts to take on the evil space Empires that have brought misery to so many people on dispa...

In the tradition of Farscape , and Blake's 7 comes a new space adventure series "Saints and Sinners" by Jeff Deischer.  Volume one contains 3 interrelated stories including the origin of the four fugitives escaping incarceration in the most maximum security prison in the Imperium.  These characters are based on the classic archetypes from the RPG world set lose in the 38th Century with virtualy th...

Author Wayne Carey will soon publish his first novel "The New Adventures of Alan Quatermain: The Beastmen."  He has been a contributor to several Anthologies including the modern Classic "Legends of New Pulp". Wayne also has a Recent SciFi novel "Nanon Factor" about house pets whose intelligence is boosted by Nano-devices.  He also has upcoming contributions in 2 anthologies from Pro Se:  "Hollywo...