Tag Archives: lovecraft

Weird World War 3, Octopus, Weird Tales, Serling

Posted on October 10, 2020 by admin

A year ago (almost to the day as I write this) I received an invitation to contribute to a Baen Books anthology of Weird World War III stories. The “Weird” parameter hinged on the fact that there needed to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged baen books, cold war, lovecraft, marguerite reed, my octopus teacher, nuclear war, rod serling, sean patrick hazlett, shadow rook red, soviet union, twilight zone, weird tales, weird world war III | Leave a comment

Death on the Nefertem Express

Posted on March 2, 2020 by BT

It’s remarkable what several bottles of wine on a train can do for you. As a kid, I grew up on a steady diet of mystery fiction. My mother was an aficionado of Daphne Du Maurier and Agatha Christie, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged agatha christie, baen books, cosmic corsairs, death on the nefertem express, F&SF, fantasy and science fiction, HPL, innsmouth, jolene fort, lovecraft, shadow rook red, weird world war III | Leave a comment

Bygone days of the Astroliners

Posted on February 15, 2018 by BT

From the outside, the rocketship looks like some relic of the early Cold War. It’s little more than a lengthy cylinder like some retrofitted ICBM, with a bright red needle on the end like a painted narwhal tusk. The words … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged alex shvartsman, astroliner, baen books, cackle of chulhu, escape pod, fertile crescent, Galaxys Edge, lovecraft, Pseudopod, rahotep, sparg, the god and the gate, third flatiron, tina connolly | Leave a comment

The Horror! Sales and Thoughts

Posted on November 4, 2015 by BT

Horror is a strange, wonderful, and frustrating genre. Frustrating because there’s so much bad horror out there: cheap ghost stories, torture porn, and yet-another-goddam-zombie movie. Wonderful because it’s a time for masks and secrets, allowing us to twist the world … Continue reading →

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Games I’d Like to See

Posted on September 8, 2012 by BT

The arts are stuck in a rut. How many more sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots, and re-imaginings do we have do see before we admit that the film industry is, creatively speaking, in dire straits? How many fifty shades of vampires in love must we pass in bookstores before we accept that publishers are now only playing it so safe as to be stale?

Games are no different. Continue reading →

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