It's out!

But the one copy I know of in Ontario is in the Milton Chapters.

Tom Corbett, Space Cadet: Riddle of Astro Part 1 & Part 2

Riddle of Astro Part 1
Riddle of Astro Part 2

Astro decides to spend the last week of his leave on Venus by himself, leaving him vulnerable to ( Read more... )

So, is there a name for this genre?

Books like Wrede's Frontier Magic series or Brandon Sanderson's The Rithmatist where the awesome-ausity of the Frontier Days is saved from the triffling moral complication that there were people living on all that land that was seen as free for the grabbing by replacing said people with monsters that's OK to kill?

I've joked that you could salvage the Third Reich in the same way, by replacing those inconsiderately human Slavs, Jews and whatnot with monsters, on the assumption that that has to be obviously a reductio ad absurdum of the concept. Imagine my surprise when I found out Black Sun Reich has replaced the population of Eastern Europe with flesh-hungry zombies. Since the book is more about how wonderful and inclusive a libertarian Republic of Texas would have been, the Nazis are still the bad guys but now I think it's just a matter of time before someone goes that one step farther.

(unrelated: until someone else mentioned it, it never would have occurred to me that the Posleen books might be intended as a metaphor for the American Civil War from the point of view of a Lost Causer)

Tom Corbett, Space Cadet: Escort of Death Part 1 & Part 2

Escort of Death Part 1
Escort of Death Part 2

Tom and Roger - I get the feeling the writers didn't really care for Astro - get called in for Special Duty, something Roger is very pleased to see involves ( Read more... )