Category Archives: Appendix N

Jeffro’s Writings on Appendix N Are Now on Amazon

DISCLOSURE: I blog at Castalia House, where Jeffro Johnson is the current webmaster. As the readers of this blog are no doubt aware, I have been reading and reviewing the works of “Appendix N,” the list of books that inspired … Continue reading

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A Princess of Mars (Appendix N Review)

A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs Originally published A. C. McClurg (1917) Republished by Wilder Publications (2015) $1.99 (Kindle) $7.95 (Paperback) Meet John Carter, clean-limbed fighting man of Virginia. A veteran of the War Between the States, he … Continue reading

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At the Earth’s Core (Appendix N Review)

At the Earth’s Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs Originally published A. C. McClurg (1914) Republished by Waking Lion Press (2006) Free (Kindle) $11.95 (Paperback) David Innes and his good friend Perry are testing a drilling device intended to help prospectors … Continue reading

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Martians, Go Home (Appendix N Review)

Martians, Go Home by Fredric Brown Originally published E. P. Dutton (1955) Republished by Gateway (2011) $5.99 Luke Devereaux is a struggling science fiction writer reeling from a recent divorce. Unable to come up with an idea for his next … Continue reading

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The Planetary Adventures of Eric John Stark (Appendix N Review)

The Planetary Adventures of Eric John Stark by Leigh Brackett Originally published by Fiction House (1949)* Republished by Wonder Publishing Group (2010) $5.99 * The Road to Sinharat was published in 1963. Eric John Stark — also known as N’Chaka, … Continue reading

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The Face in the Frost (Appendix N Review)

The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs Originally published by Macmillan (1969) Republished by Open Road Media (2014) $6.15 (Kindle) $9.99 (Paperback) The wizard Prospero goes on a journey alongside his friend Roger Bacon. While on this journey, Roger … Continue reading

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The High Crusade (Appendix N Review)

The High Crusade by Poul Anderson Originally published by Doubleday (1960) Republished by Baen Books (2010) $6.99 (Kindle) $12.00 (Paperback) Among medieval Englishmen, aliens land, their towering spacecraft dwarfing primitive works. Men watch transfixed as a blue creature steps out, … Continue reading

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The Broken Sword (Appendix N Review)

The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson Originally published by Abelard-Schuman (1954) Republished by Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (2014) $6.15 Hark! Gather ye, youths and lasses, for a fierce tale of Skafloc, stolen from his fair mother’s arms by … Continue reading

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Three Hearts and Three Lions (Appendix N Review)

Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson Originally published by Doubleday (1961) Republished by Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (2015) $4.20 In the 1940s, Danish native Holger Carlsen left an idyllic life in the United States to fight … Continue reading

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