Legions of fantasy readers were thrilled earlier this month by the announcement that The Republic of Thieves, the (really) long-awaited third novel in Scott Lynch‘s Gentlemen Bastards Sequence, at last has a publication date (October 8, 2013). It’s been six and a half years since the last book’s release, in which time problems both personal and otherwise have [...]
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The All-New Adventures of the Original Podwits!
Posted: January 19, 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Books, Film, Podcast, Science Fiction, TelevisionTags: Frank Miller, Game of Thrones, Gremlins, John Carter, Lord of the Rings, Robert Rodriguez, Sabrina, Sin City, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hobbit, The Phantom, The Prisoner, The Shadow, The Spirit, Tintin
Accept no substitutes! The Podwits are back once again and THIS time it’s personal! The boys picked up a few good books and are talking remakes. Do we really need ‘em? And WILL comics legend Frank Miller ever make a decent movie again? The Podwits race through all this and more… but did someone cut [...]
The Rigante: Like History, Only Better!
Posted: September 13, 2012 by Brian in Books, Escape VelocityTags: Connavar, Crypto-historical, David Gemmell, Keltoi, Midnight Falcon, Morrigu, Ravenheart, Rigante, Seidh, Stormrider, Sword in the Storm, Varlish
Every other Thursday, Brian goes out of this world, waxing recommendatious on great reading that will transport you to fantastic, far-away worlds and times. Looking to escape? Escape Velocity is your bi-weekly ticket! Within the world of science fiction and fantasy, possibly my favorite little sub-sub-genre is one I recently decided to call the crypto-historical. Most usually [...]
Two Sought Adventure: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Posted: August 9, 2012 by Brian in Books, Escape VelocityTags: Conan, Fafhrd, Fantasy, Fritz Leiber, Gray Mouser, Sword and Sorcery
Every other Thursday, Brian goes out of this world, waxing recommendatious on great reading that will transport you to fantastic, far-away worlds and times. Looking to escape? Escape Velocity is your bi-weekly ticket! Fantasy doesn’t have to be epic to be great reading. Today’s case in point: Fritz Leiber’s long-running series of stories about Fafhrd and [...]
The Desert of Souls : Adventure in the 1,001 Nights Tradition!
Posted: July 26, 2012 by Brian in Books, Escape VelocityTags: Desert of Souls, Harold Lamb, Harun al-Rashid, Howard Andrew Jones, Pulp Adventure
Welcome to the debut of this new bi-weekly column, in which I get to wax recommendatious about great escapist literature every other Thursday. Because y’know, sometimes you don’t need a searing indictment of gender relations in a war-torn third-world country. Sometimes you just want to let an author take you somewhere neat in your mind, [...]
It’s All Brian’s Fault… HONEST!
Posted: July 7, 2012 by J. Marcus in Books, Comic Books, Doctor Who, Film, PodcastTags: Batman, Detective Comics, Doctor Who, Douglas Adams, Ernest Borgnine, San Diego Comic Con, Shada, Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man
With Dion on the lam again, J. and Brian are forced to go it alone once again. Amazing technical goofs aside, the boys manage to run the bases, covering such amazing topics as the upcoming San Diego Comic Con, Doctor Who, the new Spider-Man movie and even a little bit of historical comic lore! So [...]
So What Ship REALLY Sank That Fateful “Night to Remember”?
Posted: April 28, 2012 by Dion in Books, History, Literature, NewsTags: Californian, Conspriacy Thoeries, HMS Hawke, RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic, White Star Line
With the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic this month, fellow Podwit Brian and I decided to indulge our fascination with nautical disasters, releasing the first part of our Podwits Podcast Disaster special, with Part Two to drop very soon. In researching these specials, I came across an age-old conspiracy theory linked to [...]
A Lost STAR TREK Episode Surfaces… [UPDATED]
Posted: February 24, 2012 by J. Marcus in Books, Science Fiction, TelevisionTags: Gene L. Coon, Gene Roddenberry, Milton Berle, Norman Spinrad, Star Trek
In my opinion, one of the all-time greatest episodes of the original Star Trek was called “The Doomsday Machine.” Written by Norman Spinrad, it stands as one of the most ambitious entries in the program’s 79-episode run. A new take on Moby Dick (a running theme in the franchise’s history), the episode set the bar very high when it came to [...]