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Vampire Hunter D Humble Bundle

Humble Bundle has a screaming deal on the Vampire Hunter D light novels by Kikuchi Hideyuki. You can pick up 29 volumes for as little as $25. I passed Vampire Hunter D over when I was younger, but I picked this up and read the first one and I’m

Light Unto Another World by Yakov Merkin

Light Unto Another World by Yakov Merkin [Amazon link] is the first of a planned 10 volume isekai series, with volumes 1 through 5 already published, and 6 through 10 recently crowdfunded on Kickstarter. Uriel Makkis is on his way to a deployment with the Israeli army when he finds

Planet of the Wage Slaves by J. Manfred Weichsel

J. Manfred Weichsel has written another brutally funny satire, Planet of the Wage Slaves. It has a totally awesome 1970s style cover, which is a bit of a departure from Weichel’s typical lurid naked women cover. This brief 13,800 word book would serve as an excellent introductory piece

The state of the short genre fiction market

Via friends of the blog Cirsova and SFFaudio, a historical point of reference for the short fiction market, another piece of the puzzle of why the book market is what it is right now. Weird Tales was usually a monthly, and if we adjust for population growth, 50k a month

Follow up on the state of the book market

I was reading the DMR Books blog post REVIEW: Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs by John Taliaferro, and I stumbled on this gem. It is another fascinating data point on the state of the book market. Like many Americans, ERB had read the pulps, especially the bestselling

The Pastel City by M. John Harrison

The Pastel City by M. John Harrison is a tightly written tale of defeat and triumph, duty and revenge, all in 144 melancholy pages. It is vastly different than the kind of fantasy book often written now. More happens in this slim volume than in trilogies of contemporary works. And

The state of the book market

Via David V. Stewart comes this information on the current state of the book market, presumably fiction and presumably mostly in the United States. However, I think non-fiction is in much the same condition. I like to keep on eye out for this kind of thing, because I don’t