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The Complete Book of Wargames
The Complete Book of Wargamesby The Editors of Consumer Guide with Jon FreemanFireside / Simon and Schuster, 1980I played wargames in the 1970s, when I was a teenager. At the time I wasn't aware of...
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Robot Psychosis
'Robot Psychosis' at the Paperback PaletteThe posts at the Paperback Palette website are infrequent, but when they do arrive, they are full of content.Currently up is a retrospective of vintage...
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Book Review: Quag Keep
Book Review: 'Quag Keep' by Andre Norton4 / 5 Stars'Quag Keep' first was published in hardcover in 1978. This DAW Books paperback edition ( No. 353, 192 pp.) was issued in September, 1979, with cover...
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The Art of Ron Cobb
The Art of Ron CobbTitan Books, 2022'The Art of Rob Cobb' (208 pp.) was published by Titan Books in 2022. Like all the Titan titles it's a well-made hardbound book, measuring 9 1/4 inches by 12 1/2...
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Book Review: The Shockwave Rider
Book Review: 'The Shockwave Rider' by John Brunner0 / 5 StarsIn the 1930s the American author John Dos Passos (1896 – 1970) wrote three novels, referred to as the ‘U.S.A. Trilogy’, which relied on an...
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National Lampoon April 1973
National LampoonApril 1973Let's take another trip back in time, fifty years ago, to April, 1973 and the latest issue of the National Lampoon. Like many of these 1973 issues,the April issue is not very...
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Book Review: Orbit 11
Book Review: 'Orbit 11' edited by Damon Knight3Â / 5 StarsWell, here we go with another review of another installment in the 'Orbit' franchise, the franchise that delivers pure and unadulterated New...
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MTV programming list week of September 28, 1983
MTV Programming List, Week of September 28, 1983Here is a neat little 'blast from the past', courtesy of shatterdaymorn at the IMDb website: the 86 songs on the MTV programming list for the week of...
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Spooky stories month October 2023
 October 2023 is Spooky StORIES MOnth at the PORPOR BOOKS BLOG !Here the the PorPor Books Blog, every October is 'Spooky Stories Month', where we review books devoted to horror and the supernatural,...
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Book Review: The Stephen King Companion
October 2023 is Spooky StORIES MOnth      at the POrPOR BOOKS BLOG !Book Review: 'The Stephen King Companion' edited by George Beahm5 / 5 Stars‘The Stephen King Companion’ first edition (365 pp.)...
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Splatterpunks in Penthouse
 October 2023 is Spooky StORIES MOnth at the PORPOR BOOKS BLOG !Splatterpunks in PenthousePenthouse magazine, September 1988It's only a one-page article, but it shows that by the early Fall of 1988,...
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My top 22 horror short stories, October 2023
 October 2023 is Spooky StORIES MOnth at the PORPOR BOOKS BLOG !My Top 22 Horror Short StoriesOctober 2023 I've been reading horror stories since 1970, when I was 9 years old and I saw a copy of Alfred...
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Book Review: The Shaft
 October 2023 is Spooky StORIES MOnth at the PORPOR BOOKS BLOG !Book Review: 'The Shaft' by David J. Schow2 / 5 StarsNowadays Splatterpunk is mainstreamed as a horror genre, so much so that if I go to...
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Fantasy Tales 45th Anniversary Special: Phantasmagoria magazine
 October 2023 is Spooky StORIES MOnth at the PORPOR BOOKS BLOG !Fantasy Tales 45th Anniversary TributePhantasmagoria Magazine, 2022Following in the footsteps of Justin Marriott, a number of...
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Book Review: Fears
 October 2023 is Spooky StORIES MOnth at the PORPOR BOOKS BLOG !Book Review: 'Fears', edited by Charles L. Grant 4 / 5 StarsWell, from 40 years ago, here we have a quintessential Paperbacks from Hell...
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Penthouse October 1983
Penthouse magazineOctober 1983Let's step back in time 40 years to October, 1983, when (in the week of the 22nd) the top song in the nation, according to the Billboard Hot 100 chart, was 'Total Eclipse...
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Book Review: Squirm
 October 2023 is Spooky StORIES MOnth at the PORPOR BOOKS BLOG !Book Review: 'Squirm' by Richard Curtis2 / 5 StarsSquirm was a low-budget, drive-in horror movie from American International Pictures...
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At the library sale, October 2023
 At the library Sale, October 2023Time once again to make my way to the regional library used book sale, the site where, in the past, I have been to add to my collection of PorPor Books published from...
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Book Review: The Portals
October 2023 is Spooky StORIES MOnth at the POrPOR BOOKS BLOG !Book Review: 'The Portals' by Edward Andrew Mann2 / 5 Stars'The Portals' first was published in hardcover in 1974. This Granada / Panther...
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Book Review: The Fires of Lan-Kern
Book Review: 'The Fires of Lan-Kern' by Peter Tremayne4 / 5 Stars'The Fires of Lan-Kern' first was published in the U.K. in 1980. This Methuen paperback (272 pp.) was issued in 1984, and features...
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