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Castalia House Releases Cádiz: First English Translation of Galdós’s Eighth Episodios Nacionales Volume
Castalia House published Cádiz on August 4, the first English translation of the eighth entry in Benito Pérez Galdós’s Episodios Nacionales. Translator Vox Day brings this installment to English readers, set in 1810, as French forces besiege the port city of Cádiz, the last ground in Spain that Napoleon had not yet taken.
William Shatner Returns To Star Trek As 60th Anniversary Documentary Lands Regal Theatrical Release
William Shatner is heading back into Star Trek’s orbit as an executive producer on The Sixty-Year Mission: How Star Trek Changed Television and the World, a documentary set to open exclusively in Regal Cinemas nationwide on October 9, timed to the franchise’s 60th anniversary. The film pulls together interviews with all three living cast members from th…
Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz — Review
This book came my way by an eBay seller who sent me a whole stack of her books in addition to my order of Anne McCaffrey collectibles, and so I was interested in reading. Katherine Kurtz, it turns out, was McCaffrey’s neighbor for a long time in Ireland, and while I generally don’t read a lot of straight fantasy, this one had a lot of heart and interest…
Sandy Petersen Sets the Record Straight on Theater Kids and the Fall of D&D
Sandy Petersen was there at the beginning. The designer of Call of Cthulhu and co-author of RuneQuest has been playing tabletop RPGs since 1974, and he pushed back this week against a claim spreading on social media: that Dungeons & Dragons was always the domain of what critics now call “theater kids.”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4, Episode 3 Review: “Human Best Friend” Trades Its Crew For A Joke
“Human Best Friend,” the third episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season four, sends the Enterprise crew on shore leave to a pleasure planet called Cesnar Grand, where an intoxicating atmosphere gets everyone blackout drunk and most of the cast wakes up with no memory of the night before. Scotty and Ortegas, who spent the season’s opening episodes…
Modern Fallout No Longer Confronts
I’ve been meaning to talk about a particular subject-matter ever since it was brought up by Synthetic Man in reference to Season 2 of The Fallout Show. Looking back, this was as obvious as the central message of Fallout: New Vegas’s Old World Blues expansion, as spoken by the Think Tank, a group of pre-War scientists trapped in the Big MT (Black Mountai…
Damage Control: How Marvel’s Cleanup Crew Became Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s Real Villain
Damage Control is the main villain of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and the reveal has a lot of readers scratching their heads, as it’s a very niche group of characters many viewers aren’t aware of. For most of the movie runtime, Sadie Sink’s mystery telepath looks like the threat. She hijacks Bruce Banner’s mind and forces his first Hulk transformation in…
HWA Cancels Their Member Sèphera Girón After Pro-AI Newsletter Column Sparks Backlash
The Horror Writers Association voted to strip Sèphera Girón of her trustee position after a column she wrote for the organization’s official member newsletter argued the group’s anti-AI culture had curdled into hypocrisy and witch-hunting. HWA confirmed the removal in a board statement posted by author Tim Waggoner on Facebook, less than a day after the…