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Book Review: My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir
'My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir'by Chris OffuttWashington Square Press, April 20175 / 5 StarsAs a teenager and sci-fi reader during the 1970s, I was aware of Andrew J. Offutt (who often used the...
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Loner from Wildcat
LonerEagle / Wildcat, 1988 - 1990The British boy's paper Wildcat was introduced in October, 1988, by UK publisher Fleetway. Wildcat was a sci-fi paper and featured four individual comics, all centered...
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Book Review: Strangers
Book Review: 'Strangers' by Gardner Dozois3 / 5 Stars‘Strangers’ first appeared as a novelette in the 1974 anthology New Dimensions IV, edited by Robert Silverberg. Dozois received sufficient interest...
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April is modern cyberpunk month
Here at the PorPor Books blog, to break the monotony that comes from continually reviewing sci-fi, fantasy, and horror paperbacks from the interval from 1968 - 1988, we occasionally shift our attention...
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Book Review: The Traveler
Book Review: 'The Traveler' by John Twelve Hawks4 / 5 Stars'The Traveler' first was published in 2005 in hardcover by Doubleday. This mass market paperback (480 pp.) was issued by Vintage Books in July...
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Every now and then..........
Every Now and Then..............I discover that the website provides a 'blurb'. So it is in the case of this DAW book from 2013, where my review as used to fashion a back cover blurb......Certainly...
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Excalibur, April 10 1981
ExcaliburWarner Bros.April 10, 1981I remember seeing the movie Excalibur when it was released 40 years ago in April of 1981. It was the first of what would be a steady stream of fantasy-themed films...
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Book Review: Black Glass
Book Review: 'Black Glass' by John Shirley3 / 5 Stars‘Black Glass: The Lost Cyberpunk Novel’ (310 pp.) was published as a trade paperback in November 2008 by Elder Signs Press, a since-defunct small...
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Battling Britons
Battling Britonsby Justin MarriottApril, 2021Like most Baby Boomers of American pedigree I grew up reading war comics, most of them from DC, occasionally from Charlton. I thought the Sergeant Rock...
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Dot's Homestyle Pretzels
Dot's Homestyle PretzelsI'm not much of a pretzel eater. But then I saw a post at Barstool Sports for these pretzels, in which the poster stated of Dot's Homestyle Pretzels:You can't stop eating them...
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Book Review: Whole Wide World
Book Review: 'Whole Wide World' by Paul McAuley4 / 5 Stars'Whole Wide World' first was printed in 2001 in hardcover. This mass market paperback (376 pp.) was issued by Tor in December, 2003. The cover...
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Deathlok in New York, 1993
Deathlok in New York, 1993Captain America No. 286, October 1983This issue of Captain America features a brilliant cover by artist Mike Zeck and inker John Beatty.It kicked off a three-issue story arc...
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Alien Landscapes
Alien LandscapesBy Robert Holdstock and Malcolm EdwardsMayflower Books, NY 1979The sci-fi boom that followed the success of Star Wars led to a surge of books devoted to genre art, and one of the...
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Book Review: The Deus Machine
Book Review: 'The Deus Machine' by Pierre Ouellette3 / 5 Stars'The Deus Machine' first was published in hardcover in 1994 by Random House. This mass-market paperback edition (506 pp.) was issued by...
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The Screaming Skull from 2000 AD March 1990
The Screaming SkullAlan Grant (writer), David Roach (art) 2000 A.D., issues 699 - 670, March 1990Great black-and-white artwork by U.K. artist David Roach in these two episodes of 'Judge Anderson' from...
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Book Review: Daemon
Book Review: 'Daemon' by Daniel Suarez4 / 5 StarsHow 'Daemon' came to be is an interesting story in self-confidence and perseverance. When he finished writing 'Daemon' (his first novel), Suarez was...
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Thorgal: Almost Paradise
Thorgal'Almost Paradise' by Jean Van Hamme (writer) and Grzegorz Rosinski (art)from Thorgal: The Sorceress Betrayed The Donning Company, 1987 This Thorgal comic first was released in January 1980 in...
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Book Review: Spell of the Witch World
Book Review: 'Spell of the Witch World' by Andre Norton3 / 5 starsDAW Books issued two versions of 'Spell of the Witch World', one (No. UQ1001) in April 1972, and the other, No. UY1179, in June of...
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Final Warning from Marvel Preview
Final Warningby Lynn Graeme (story) and Frank Miller (art)from Marvel Preview: Bizarre Adventures 2 (1980)Even by my forgiving standards, the Fall, 1980 issue (No. 24) of Marvel Preview is pretty...
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Three more from 2000 AD
Three more from 2000 ADI stopped in at my comics shop last week and found some recently acquired 'vintage'2000 AD graphic novels issued by Titan Books in 1983: Ro-busters Volume One and Volume Two, and...
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