Keith West
Demons of the Night: Early Stories by Seabury Quinn
Demons of the Night
Seabury Quinn
Gene Christie, ed.
Black Dog Books
Tpb $19.95 182 p.
Ebook
During the heyday of Weird Tales in the 1920s and 1930s, there were...
A Review of Blood on my Jets
Blood on my Jets
Algis Budrys
Wonder eBooks
$3.99 Kindle Nook
One of the advantages of the ebook revolution is that the work of previous generations of science...
A Case for Courtesy
The controversy over the SFWA Bulletin that erupted from the SFWA forums onto the wider internet this week brought to mind something that's been...
Four Reasons to Stay Out of the Water
Tales of Terror: Dark Waters
Christopher Fulbright
ND3 Press
0.99
Memorial Day is over, June has begun, and summer is upon us. Temperatures are climbing, and people are...
In Defense of Digital Book Buying
Stephen King recently stirred up a bit of controversy with his announcement that his next book, Joyland, from Hard Case Crime, will not have...
Fantastic Stories of the Imagination Returns
Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
Warren Lapine, ed.
Wilder Publications
$29.99 hardcover
$14.99 trade paper
$6.59 Kindle $7.99 Nook
In one of its prior incarnations, Amazing Stories® had a sister...
A Review of Blue November Storms
Blue November Storms
Brian James Freeman
Cemetery Dance Publications
Trade Paper $9.99
Electronic $2.99
I haven’t reviewed any horror fiction in my posts here. Considering that I’m focusing on...
Fiction River Debuts
Fiction River
WMG Publishing
Six times a year
Electronic $6.99
Trade Paper $15.99
I interviewed Kristine Kathryn Rusch two weeks ago about the experience of launching Fiction River via...
A Review of Writing Fantasy Heroes
Writing Fantasy Heroes
Jason M. Waltz, ed.
Rogue Blades Entertainment
trade paper, $14.99,
ebook $ 7.99 Kindle (There is no other electronic version available that I'm aware of.)
Okay,...
Crowdfunding Fiction River: An Interview with Kristine Kathryn Rusch
My post on crowdfunding a few weeks back generated some really great discussion and seemed to tap into something of interest to a great...
Racing to Adventure
Race to Adventure!
Evil Hat Productions
Modular Board Game, $30
This week’s post is going to be a little different. Instead of reviewing a book, I’m going...
Zombies, Nazis, and the Spear of Destiny
The Spear of Destiny
Jason E. Thummel
paperback $12.95
ebook $2.99 Kindle Nook Smashwords
Jason E. Thummel is the author of a number of well received heroic fantasy...
Stray Thoughts About the Hugo Nominations
It's not been the best of weeks. Plague and pestilence have swept through the household, hitting everyone except me. How I managed to stay...
A Sneak Peek at The Flames of Shadam Khoreh
The Flames of Shadam Khoreh
Bradley P. Beaulieu
In last week’s post, I discussed crowdfunding as a publishing strategy, ending with a list of crowdfunded books...
Crowdfunding as a Publishing Strategy
I’m reading a really cool book right now, but in spite of my best efforts, life has gotten in the way and I...
A Good Old Fashoined Alien Invasion
The Battle for Eden
Mark E. Burgess
Wildside Press
tpb $15.99
ebook $2.99 Kindle Nook
Last week we looked at one half of a double novel. If case...
In Brackett’s Footsteps Under the Ember Star
Under the Ember Star
Charles Allen Gramlich
Wildside Press
tpb $15.99
electronic $2.99 Kindle epub
Unless Stephen Haffner has an unpublished manuscript tucked away somewhere, there will be no...
An Interview with Indie Author Joshua P. Simon
Last week I reviewed some tales by newcomer and indie author Joshua P. Simon. This week I'm following those reviews up by interviewing the...
Three Military Fantasy Shorts
For this week, I’m going to do things differently. Rather than review a single work, I’ll look at three stories set in the same...
Swashbuckling with Morticai
Morticai’s Luck
Darlene Bolesny
Dark Star Books
Trade ppb, 245 p., $15.95
Ebook, $5.95
Ever gone to a con and come home with more books than it’s humanly possible...
Frogs in Aspic, Like a Box of Chocolates
Frogs in Aspic
Keith P. Graham
Kindle only $1.99
I’m partial to short fiction, especially lately when I have so many interruptions it seems to take forever...
Dead Cosmonauts and Other Eldritch Horrors
Space Eldritch
Nathan Shumate, ed.
Cold Fusion Media
Tpb $13.99, ebook $5.99
Kindle Nook Smashwords
Two of the most popular subgenres of the fantastic are space travel (with its...
Five Military SF Novellas by Five Authors
Five by Five
Aaron Allston
Kevin J. Anderson
Loren L. Coleman
B. V. Larson
Michael A. Stackpole
WordFire Press electronic only $4.99
Kindle B&N Kobo Smashwords
I thought I'd look at some...
What I Mean When I Say…
Over the last year or so, I’ve noticed something when I’ve conversed with people (in person or through email), posted things on my blog,...
Opening Salvo
Hi. I’m glad you’re here. Come in, make yourself comfortable, and let me introduce myself. My name is Keith West. I’ve been reading science...