Author: mdjackson
What the %&*# is Perry Rhodan?
If you are a fan of science fiction and if, as I do, you have a particular love for space opera, then you probably have come across the name Perry Rhodan. If you’re anything like me then you would have spent many hours scouring paperback aisles or racks looking for Read More
Retro Review: …4…3…2…1…Mission Stardust!
Though fans of the Perry Rhodan series will bend over backwards to even deny the film’s existence, Mission Stardust (or, as it was known in Italian: …4…3…2…1…Morte) is a 1967 science fiction film based on the early novels. The film is hopelessly of its time. From the psychedelic opening credits Read More
Harlan Ellison dies at age 84
Whether you loved him or hated him, no one can deny that he was a giant of literature, SF, Fantasy or otherwise. Iconic and controversial, Ellison’s writing career crossed multiple genres, from horror to SF to speculative fiction, across a career studded with awards from the Nebulas to the Hugos and Read More
Debt’s Honor
The long awaited sequel to our best selling title DEBT’S PLEDGE has finally been released! Jefferson Odett returns in Jack Mackenzie’s DEBT’S HONOR, an action-packed military science fiction adventure that will have you hooked! PIRATES, ALIENS, BUREAUCRATS – WHO CAN YOU TRUST? Korax is a colony world beset by problems. Read More
Dark Worlds Issue #4 is here!
The fourth issue of DARK WORLDS QUARTERLY is here! It has been a very long and hard winter and we’ve been doing some much needed hibernating. We’re very much awake now for Spring of 2018, and we managed to give the old Quarterly a bit of a new look! Plus Read More
DARK WORLDS QUARTERLY #3 is FINALLY HERE!
The third issue of DARK WORLDS QUARTERLY is here! Yes, the issue was delayed by a couple of weeks due to unfortunate circumstances that occurred just before Christmas. We had intended to make it available before 2018. Consequently the datelines all still reflect our intended release date. We hope that Read More
Dark Worlds Quarterly #2 is a FREE download
The second issue of DARK WORLDS QUARTERLY is here! Our second issue features an interview with BYRON CRAFT about his novel THE CRY OF CTHULHU and its sequel SHOGGOTH. Byron regales us with his stories of trying to sell a faithful Lovecraft film to Hollywood back in the 1970’s and Read More
DARK WORLDS QUARTERLY #1 is HERE!
The premiere issue of DARK WORLDS QUARTERLY is here! Our first issue features an interview with DONALD F. GLUT about his Doctor Spektor character that he created for Gold Key comics. Canadian Voices in Science Fiction – Just in time for Canada 150, we talk to Canadian science fiction readers Read More
Time Like Broken Glass now in Print
Don’t like e-books? Miss the tactile experience you get with actual, physical, printed-on-paper type books? Well, my latest book TIME LIKE BROKEN GLASS is now available from my publisher, Rage Machine Books in a print version! You can order a copy and get it at a 30% discount for a limited Read More
Ace Double Novels: Double your Pleasure, Double your fun!
What’s better than one of something? Two of something, of course! Most science fiction readers of a certain age remember with a great deal of fondness the series of Ace Double Novels which were released from 1953 to 1973 and were a distinctive part of the science-fiction community throughout Read More
How Big is a Book?
How big is a book? It’s as big as it needs to be Novels. Novellas. Novellettes. Short Stories. Each is an arbitrary category for a particular length of fiction. There is no “right” length for a story really and the prevailing wisdom about the lengths that a novel must be are Read More