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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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Book Review: SS-GB
May is 'Third Reich Triumphant' Month at the PorPor Books Blog Book Review: 'SS-GB' by Len Deighton4 / 5 Stars'SS-GB' first was published in hardcover in 1978. This Ballantine Books mass-market...
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Sea of Destiny from Bizarre Adventures No. 32
Sea of Destinyby Alan Zelenetz (story) and John Bolton (art)Bizarre Adventures (Marvel / Curtis) No. 32, August 1982August, 1982. On MTV, the latest video from Eddie Money, 'I Think I'm In Love', is in...
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Book Review: Hitler Victorious
May is 'Third Reich Triumphant' Month at the PorPor Books BlogBook Review: 'Hitler Victorious' edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg3 / 5 Stars'Hitler Victorious' (278 pp.) was published as...
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Book Review: Nightmare Age
Book Review: 'Nightmare Age' edited by Frederik Pohl2 / 5 Stars 'Nightmare Age' (312 pp.) was published by Ballantine Books in October, 1970, and features evocative cover art by Peter Schaumann. This...
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National Lampoon June 1974
National LampoonJune 1974June, 1974, and as we sit down with our latest issue of the National Lampoon, on the FM radio's 'Top 40' format, we're listening to Paul McCartney and Wings, at number one with...
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Book Review: Maske: Thaery
Book Review: 'Maske: Thaery' by Jack Vance5 / 5 Stars 'Maske: Thaery' (216 pp.) was published in hardcover in 1976. This Berkley Books paperback was issued in September, 1977, with cover art by Ken...
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Heavy Metal June 1979
Heavy MetalJune 1979 June, 1979, and in rotation on my local album-oriented rock (AOR) station WAAL, 'Dance Away,' from Roxy Music, is in rotation. It's a track from their 1979 LP Manifesto. In a year...
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Book Review: Hardwired
Book Review: 'Hardwired' by Walter Jon Williams1 / 5 Stars'Hardwired'(343 pp.) was published by Tor Books in April, 1987, and features cover art by pinup artist Luis Royo. 'Hardwired' is set in the...
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Havok and Wolverine: Meltdown
Havok and Wolverine: MeltdownMarvel Comics, 1989'Havok and Wolverine' was a four-issue miniseries issued by Marvel, under its Epic Comics imprint, from March to October, 1989. The series was written by...
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