MAGIC MIRROR
A worthy, if frustratingly little known, addition to the underground comics scene
ROBOT CARNIVAL
Nothing less than 1980s-era Japan’s answer to FANTASIA
2021: Bedlam in Print
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s Bedlam Files-friendly publications
2020: Bedlam in Print
Here, in the early days of 2021, is the latest edition of my annual Bedlam in Print overview
DANGEROUS VISIONS AND NEW WORLDS: RADICAL SCIENCE FICTION, 1950-1985
If you’re a fan of literary science fiction this book is absolutely essential reading
THE SHADOW AND OTHER STRANGE TALES
A short single author anthology that appears to have been aimed at children
OUT OF TIME
This uber-rarity is, as of 2021, the sole English language collection by George Langelaan (1908-1972)
THE NEO-DECADENT COOKBOOK
As the back cover inquires, “Have you ever sautéed geometrical sex or eaten fate from the breasts of Minerva?”
BLACK BUTTERFLIES
Restraint is something you won’t find much of in a John Shirley story, and that’s particularly true here
On DARK FORCES
To many this is THE standout anthology. But is DARK FORCES really that great a book? Let’s see.