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Book Review: The Garments of Caean
Book Review: 'The Garments of Caean' by Barrington J. Bayley4 / 5 StarsI picked this book up, along with another 10 treasured old paperbacks, at the Utah Book and Magazine store on 327 S. Main Street...
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Occupied Spaces
'Occupied Spaces'by Brad JohannsenIf, during the late 70s, you opened a copy of the Publishers Central Bureau mail order catalog of remaindered and overstocked books..........you were certain to see...
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Book Review: The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 2
Book Review: 'The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 2' edited by Lin Carter 4 / 5 Stars‘The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 2’ (192 pp) was published by DAW Books (No. 205) in August, 1986, and features cover...
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Heavy Metal magazine January 1985
'Heavy Metal' magazine January 1985January, 1985, and on MTV, you can watch the latest video from Hall and Oates: Method of Modern Love'. Like so many of their videos, it's super-cheesy, but at the...
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Book Review: Patterns of Chaos
Book Review: 'Patterns of Chaos' by Colin KappAward Books paperback, 19734 / 5 Stars‘Patterns of Chaos’ first appeared as a serial in Worlds of If magazine in 1972. This Ace Books paperback (277) was...
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Mythopoeikon
Mythopoeikon by Patrick WoodroffePatrick Woodroffe passed away last May, at the age of 73. During the 70s and 80s, Woodroffe as a familiar figure to sf fans, as his distinctive artwork was used on the...
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The Appointment by Angus McKie
The Appointment by Angus McKiefrom Comic Tales, Tyneside Free Press (UK), 1988'Comic Tales' is a UK trade paperback (52 pp; 1988) that compiles a number of Angus McKie's comics. I recognize some of the...
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An East Wind Coming-advertisement
An East Wind Comingadvertisement for the novel by Arthur Byron Coverpublished by Berkley Books, November, 1979cover art by Boris VallejoHeavy Metal magazine, February, 1980
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Book Review: Trekmaster
Book Review: 'Trekmaster' by James B. Johnson3 / 5 Stars‘Trekmaster’ (397 pp) was published by DAW Books (DAW book No. 719) in September, 1987. The cover artwork is by Michael Whelan.After conflict...
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Book Review: Guardian
Book Review: 'Guardian' by Thomas F. Monteleone2 / 5 Stars‘Guardian’ was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in September, 1980; this Fawcett Popular Library paperback (190 pp) was published in...
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Epic Illustrated February 1983
Epic Illustrated February, 1983No. 16February, 1983, and the latest issue of Marvel's Epic Illustrated showcases former Marvel / Conan the Barbarian artist Barry Windsor-Smith; the cover art is titled...
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Batman: Digital Justice
Batman: Digital Justiceby Pepe MorenoDC, 1990 It was 30 years ago next month (i.e., March, 1985) that the first 'digital' comic strip, Shatter, was published in the PC magazine Big K............In...
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Book Review: Joshua, Son of None
Book Review: 'Joshua, Son of None' by Nancy Freedman2 / 5 Stars'Joshua, Son of None' was first published in 1973 in hardback; this Dell paperback (237 pp) was published in August, 1974.The book's main...
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Hive by Paul Kirchner
'Hive' by Paul Kirchnerfrom Heavy Metal magazine, January 1980A classic from the Old School days of HM.....it does more with its 7 pages than entire comic books do nowadays. Note the use of the...
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Void Indigo issue 2
Void Indigoby Steve Gerber and Val Mayerikissue 2, March, 1985Marvel / EpicThe fact that it takes four months for the second issue of Void Indigo to appear suggests (correctly) that this title is in...
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Book Review: Siege
Book Review: 'Siege' by Edwin Corley celebrating Black History Month 2015 3 / 5 StarsHere at the PorPor Books Blog, we like to celebrate Black History Month by reading a book - fiction or non-fiction -...
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Book Review: Faces in the Flames
Book Review: 'Faces in the Flames' by Peter Tate0 / 5 Stars‘Faces in the Flames: Fourth in a Series of Small Wars’ was published in hardcover by Doubleday in April, 1976. Peter Tate (b. 1940) published...
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Snake Plissken action figure
Snake Plissken action figureNECA, February 2015Action figure and action movie fans will both rejoice at this fantastic Snake Plissken retro doll based on the 1981 John Carpenter film Escape from New...
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Sandkings graphic novel
SandkingsThe graphic novelAdapted by Doug Moench (writer) and Pat Broderick (art)DC Comics, 1987George R. R. Martin is of course well-known to contemporary readers of sf and fantasy literature. 'Way...
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The Hacker Files issue 1
The Hacker Filesby Lewis Shiner (story) and Tom Sutton (art)issue 1DC Comics, August 1992Science fiction / speculative fiction author Lewis Shiner wrote a number of comic book series for DC in the...
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