GW: How did you ever decide to become a novelist? Certainly there are easier ways to express yourself. Finger painting. Interpretive dance? Jack: Well, as much as I love interpretive dance as a medium for expression (and, honestly you should se my “Dying Swan” It brings people to tears.), my Read More
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
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
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? 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
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 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