Swords of Fire

September 19, 2019 mdjackson 0

by David A. Hardy, C. J. Burch, Jack Mackenzie & G. W. Thomas In the tradition of Lin Carter’s FLASHING SWORDS anthologies of the 1970s, G. W. Thomas has assembled four novellas of Heroic Fantasy, longer tales of swords and sorcery. Featuring David A. Hardy’s “Temple of the Rakshasas”, set in ancient times, it follows Read More

DEBT’S HONOR by Jack Mackenzie

September 12, 2019 mdjackson 0

PIRATES, ALIENS, BUREAUCRATS – WHO CAN YOU TRUST? Korax is a colony world beset by problems. Pirates have targeted the world for plunder, a race of wandering alien nomads have made themselves at home and the colony’s new governor seems intent on making enemies of just about everyone. Jefferson Odett Read More

THE PARADIGM TRAP by Jack Mackenzie

September 5, 2019 mdjackson 0

SOME ENEMIES DO NOT ACCEPT DEFEAT The long conflict between humanity and the Kreoch Empire is over. Humanity has won. The Fleet is victorious. Everything has changed. Kent McLennan commands the Fleet ship Meritorious on a mission to accept the Kreoch surrender. But the Kreoch are not taking defeat so Read More

THE MASK OF ETERNITY by Jack Mackenzie

August 29, 2019 mdjackson 0

A FORGOTTEN WORLD, A POWERFUL ARTIFACT AND A GALAXY ON THE BRINK OF WAR Solis DeLacey, captain of the ACSC ship BOSTON, has been sent to a newly discovered world rich in natural resources. But one ship and her crew has already gone missing while surveying the planet and the Read More

Dark Worlds Magazine

October 24, 2018 mdjackson 0

Dark Worlds Magazine was an effort to recapture the excitement of the old days of the pulp magazines. Magazines like Amazing Stories and Astounding Science Fiction and Weird Tales. It was also an experiement in producing a magazine in the new print-on-demand marketplace. Ultimately it was an experiment that failed. Myself and former Amazing Stories blogger G. Read More

Heralded by Blood and Other Tales

August 7, 2018 mdjackson 0

Jack Mackenzie’s collection of Dark Fantasy stories is now available from Rage Machine Books. From the book’s introduction: If you ever feel that you are doing well as a writer, I would recommend re-reading all of your old short stories. That will put a pin in any inflated sense of Read More

Debt’s Honor

June 1, 2018 mdjackson 0

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

Wild Inc: Ten Things Doc Savage Taught Me About Writing

January 20, 2018 GW Thomas 0

I think all Doc Savage fans dream of becoming Kenneth Robeson some day. Or you can be like Jack Mackenzie and try to create a Pulp character with all the fun of Doc Savage but with a more modern sensibility. And he succeeds in his upcoming book, Wild Incorporated. The 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

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