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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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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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Announcing the Appendix N Review Series

Through my reading of the Castalia House blog and other blogs, one name kept coming up whenever the history of sci-fi and fantasy was mentioned: Appendix N. Apparently, this was a list of works and authors that inspired Gary Gygax … Continue reading

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