A new website with a cool premise. Borderkingdom will be offering glances of Hyborian life, some with Conan some without.
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Martinez (In the Company of Ogres) tickles the funny bone in this delightful, fast-paced mishmash of SF and hard-boiled detective story. Mack Megaton drives a cab in the mutant-infested technotopia of Empire City. It's a step down for a massive killing machine created for world domination, but kindhearted Megaton has bucked his programming, and when his secretive neighbors, the Bleakers, go missing, he begins a search. Young Holt Bleaker has something in his mutant blood that makes him valuable to aliens poised to invade Empire City, and only a giant robot—a robot like Mack Megaton—can break him out of the fortress where he's held prisoner. Soon plans go awry when sinister psychic Grey subverts Megaton's programming, but he finds an unlikely ally in Lucia Napier, an outrageously beautiful and talented media star and roboticist. Eccentric characters, all of whom are clever twists on stereotypes, populate a smart, rocket-fast read with a clever, twisty plot that comes to a satisfying conclusion. (Feb.)
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I know I'm way late to the party with this. But I would be remiss for not posting it. It's very cool.
I found these over at Grim Reviews
I have got to find some of these (like I need more stuff to buy).
I bought most of those "Pulp Heroes" annuals back in the day--they're probably buried in my garage somewhere. I remember the Legends of the Dark Knight annual being particularly good. It seems to me it had a tie-in to Steve Savage, the Balloon Buster, and Turk County (the wider locale of Opal City, where Robinson's Starman was set). Good stuff.
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