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'Heavy Metal' movie soundtrack albumFor quite some time now I've been toying with the idea of getting the soundtrack, as an LP, to the 1981 film 'Heavy Metal.' I have noticed that the prices for...
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Re-read: Starhammer
Re-Read: 'Starhammer' by Christopher Rowley5 / 5 Stars From within the tent appeared a heavyset mutant. His skin was knobbed and warted and a deep brown. His head was shaved and yellow tusks curved...
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At the library sale April 2025
At the Library SaleApril 2025On a mild Spring day earlier this month, I made my biannual pilgrimage to the weeklong library book sale. As always, it was very well-attended, with folks coming in not...
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Book Review: War is Heaven
Book Review: 'War is Heaven' by D. Keith Mano1 / 5 Stars David Keith Mano (1942 - 2016) wrote a number of novels in the 1970s, most of which received critical acclaim. Mano was a religious man and his...
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Recycling visual motifs
Recycling Visual Motifs So, I was poking through my archive of paperback book cover scans and I selected 'Serpent's Reach,' a 1980 DAW Book by C. J. Cherryh, for my sidebar Image Gadget. After posting...
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May is 'Third Reich Triumphant' month
May is 'Third Reich Triumphant' Month at the PorPor Books BlogHere at the PorPor Books Blog, occasionally we like to devote a month to providing reviews and profiles of books that deal with a...
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Book review: Fatherland
May is 'Third Reich Triumphant' Month at the PorPor Books BlogBook Review: 'Fatherland' by Robert Harris3 / 5 Stars'Fatherland' first was published in hardcover in 1992. This Harper Paperbacks edition...
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Heavy Metal May 1979
Heavy MetalMay, 1979 May, 1979, and atop the Billboard Hot 200 chart for albums sits the Doobie Brothers with Minute by Minute. Fast rising, and soon to take over the top slot, is Supertramp's...
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Book Review: Moon of Ice
May is 'Third Reich Triumphant' Month at the PorPor Books BlogBook Review: 'Moon of Ice' by Brad Linaweaver0 / 5 Stars 'Moon of Ice' was issued by Tor Books as a mass-market paperback edition (279 pp.)...
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Pulp Power
Pulp Powerby Neil McGinnessAbrams, July 2022 'Pulp Power' was published by Abrams in July, 2022. At that time, it was something I was interested in, but it also had a cover price of $65, which made it...
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Eight Science Fiction Stories About Drugs
Eight Science Fiction & Fantasy Stories About DrugsStarting in the New Wave era, sci-fi writers began to examine drugs as a portal to recreation, mind expansion, strange phenomena, and maybe, too,...
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