C.T. Phipps's Blog, page 19

What is Moon Cops on the Moon?

    Jeffrey Kafer and I have been discussing that wrapping up some existing projects was a pretty good idea but I'd actually mostly succeeded. I have some plans for continuing a few of my series on individual levels but mostly I'd finished a pretty good number of my trilogies. That was when he said he'd like to see another sci-fi comedy series from me.
    "I can't just pop one out."
    "Why not?"
    That's when I remembered that it was pretty much David Niall Wilson asking me to write "somethin...

Tales of Nyarlathotep is now available for pre-order!

 

TALES OF NYARLATHOTEP is now available for preorder. I really had a blast with this anthology and working on pulpy tales of adventure and horror with the Crawling Chaos. The best part is that Brian Lumley gave one of our authors permission to use Titus Crow in the feature novella. Available September 12th.    
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Review - Cyberpunk 2077 - Two Years Later

    Cyberpunk 2077 remains one of the great controversial games of 2020. Also, 2021, and only started to lose that reputation around 2022. It was, to quote Obi-Wan Kenobi, supposed to be the Chosen One and ended up being Darth Vader instead. However, everyone loves a redemption story and if I were to give CD_Projekt Red any props then it will be for the fact that they spent the past couple of years trying to fix the game that shouldn’t have been released in the state that it was.

    So ho...

Review - Cyberpunk 2077 - Three Years Later

    Cyberpunk 2077 remains one of the great controversial games of 2020. Also, 2021, and only started to lose that reputation around 2022. It was, to quote Obi-Wan Kenobi, supposed to be the Chosen One and ended up being Darth Vader instead. However, everyone loves a redemption story and if I were to give CD_Projekt Red any props then it will be for the fact that they spent the past couple of years trying to fix the game that shouldn’t have been released in the state that it was.

    So ho...

Ten Recommended Classic Dungeons and Dragons Novels

I have to admit that Dungeons and Dragons is where I got my start in fantasy. Aside from The Hobbit when I was a small child, my first real experience was the worn paperbacks I picked up in my school library of Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, and Ravenloft. However, for every awesome work of fantasy, there's going to be five that aren't up to snuff.

These are some of my favorite books from the TSR/WOTC era of novels and what I enjoyed most among them. There's some other fantastic novels other than...

A Plague's Tale: Innocence review

    A PLAGUE TALE: INNOCENCE is a work of dark fantasy and that is a surprisingly rare (albeit by no means unknown) work among video games. Historical dark fantasy is even rarer as you don't often see stories set in the "real" Middle Ages, let alone with the benefit of magic as well as other occult elements. Knowing that A Plague's Tale would be set in 13th century France, during the Black Death, and have supernatural elements thus made me very intrigued with this title.

    The premise is that f...

The Fall of the House is available on audiobook!

I'm pleased to say that after a (too long) wait, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE is finally available on audiobook. The United States of Monsters series (Straight Outta Fangton, I was a Teenage Weredeer, Psycho Killers in Love) began with the Red Room series. Serving as a template and later prequel for its later volumes, The Fall of the House is the third and final book in the series that depicts how the hidden world of Esoterrorism became the broken masquerade of its sequels. Read the exciting and fascin...

Ten Recommended Forgotten Realms novels

Dungeons and Dragons novels are pretty much responsible for me becoming the fantasy fan I became as an adult. If not for the books I bought at my local Waldenbooks (the literary equivalent of a Blockbuster from the Nineties and just as absent today), I would have rotted my brain on silly things like interacting with my peers or group activities like a healthy functioning teenager. Whew. Glad I avoided that. Just kidding.

One of my favorite settings for Dungeons and Dragons novels were the Forgott...

Wraith King (Wraith Knight #3) is now available on Kindle!

 I'm very pleased to say the third volume of Wraith Knight, Wraith King, is now available!

"The final battle is just the beginning."

Jacob Riverson, Regina Whitetremor, and Serah Brightwaters have assembled the greatest army the Northern Wasteland has ever achieved but it still may not be enough. The tyrant, Empress Morwen, has gathered all of the forces of the Southern Continent to invade along with an army of airships as well as enslaved divine spirits. It is a battle that will determine t...

Dragons of Dwarven Depths by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman review

    DRAGONS OF DWARVEN DEPTHS is the first of the “Lost Chronicles” trilogy for Dragonlance. They basically are a series of novels meant to fill in the material left “off camera” from the original Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy. Now if you’ve always wanted to know how Tanis Half-Elven and Flint Fireforge acquired the Hammer of Kharas, that’s probably a great selling point. If you have no idea who either of those people and think Raistlin is a type of candy, then I’d argue this book is sti...