DARK WORLDS QUARTERLY #3 is FINALLY HERE!

January 3, 2018 mdjackson 0

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

September 18, 2017 mdjackson 0

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!

June 16, 2017 mdjackson 0

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

May 7, 2017 mdjackson 0

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

Guns Drawn: Space Westerns!

May 3, 2017 GW Thomas 0

In recent years, Josh Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity have brought the Space Western back to the public eye. Though not a commercial success, Whedon’s tales of the crew of the Serenity have sparked a new interest in the cowboys from space. The first Science Fiction pulp stories were not adventure-oriented. Read More

Ace Double Novels: Double your Pleasure, Double your fun!

May 2, 2017 mdjackson 0

  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?

May 2, 2017 mdjackson 0

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

Military SF or The Books With the BFG’s

May 2, 2017 mdjackson 0

Military SF is pretty much what it implies. It’s science fiction that explores the future of warfare. It’s not quite space opera, although it does cover some of the same ground, and it’s not quite just science fiction because it doesn’t necessarily (although it can) explore big ideas. But it Read More

RAGE MACHINE BOOKS: THAT’S WHAT I LIKE!

April 16, 2017 Jack Mackenzie 0

Rage Machine Books publishes the kind of fiction that the big publishing houses won’t touch anymore. The kind of fiction you used to be able to find on a spinner rack in your local grocery store. The kind of fiction your father or grandfather (or maybe you) used to be Read More

RAGE m a c h i n e Books: Wondrous and Terrifying

April 10, 2017 GW Thomas 0

RAGE m a c h i n e Books was originally created because of boredom. Not that I was bored and had nothing to do, but boredom with many of the books I was reading. Where was the action? The color? The mind-blowing ideas that made my skin crawl? The Read More

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