REVIEW: Cirsova Magazine Summer Issue 2022
Brazen imagination. If there’s a succinct summing-up of this issue of Cirsova Magazine, it’s those two words. There are some outrageously imaginative pulp stories in this issue.
Read MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: John C. Hocking
“I’m influenced by more than a few authors and prose styles—the Weird Tales school, classic ghost stories, American hardboiled crime and mystery fiction… I like to think that this oddball bundle of influences comes together in a fashion that doesn’t seem derivative to the reader.”
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 6/19/2022
This week: Michael Moorcock, Robert E. Howard, Ken Kelly, prehistoric/cavemen stories, Fritz Leiber, more Howard, and more Moorcock!
Read MoreREVIEW: Thune’s Vision by Schuyler Hernstrom
This volume can stand alongside most sword-and-sorcery/sword-and-planet published during the heyday of the 1960s and ‘70s. That’s about the highest praise I can give it. Hernstrom is a new writer of note, and one that we who love this type of thing sorely need.
Read MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: Ken Lizzi
“I write what I find entertaining: action oriented fiction (S&S, HF, SF, Historical Novels, hard boiled crime, etc.) The avant-garde wouldn't have me as a literary trooper even if I wanted to enlist.”
Read MoreKaor! (A Belated) Mars Day 2022
2022 marks several landmark anniversaries in the history of the Sword and Planet genre, so skipping Mars Day this year entirely was out of the question.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 6/12/2022
This week: Ken Kelly, Schuyler Hernstrom, Planet Stories, Black Sabbath, Oliver Stone’s ideas for a Conan the Barbarian movie, and more.
Read MoreMisleading Marketing - Why You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover
Whether browsing the shelves of a bookstore or the catalog of an online dealer, when you come across a really striking image, you’re going to want to pick it up and find out what the book is all about. Unfortunately, sometimes the contents of the book don’t match up to what’s promised on the cover.
Read MoreComing This Fall: Arminius, Bane of Eagles, Book I of Adrian Cole's War on Rome Series
Adrian Cole is one of the most talented and prolific writers working in the field of fantasy adventure fiction today. This fall DMR Books will unveil the first installment of his most ambitious project to date, the War on Rome trilogy.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 6/5/2022
This week: Ken Kelly, Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Manly Wade Wellman, Simon Bisley, Seven Samurai, and more.
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