Broadswords and Blasters Issue 4: Pulp Magazine with Modern Sensibilities

by Cameron Mount (Editor), Matthew X. Gomez, Steve DuBois

In this fantastic issue you will be introduced to the most badass grandmother that has ever existed in print, a retro space opera adventure about a two-fisted blaster wielding pilot, an epistolary tale of the corrupting influence of depraved love, and a new adventure for Benedict Arnold, Josh Gibson, and Genghis Khan in an afterlife of their own making. You'll also be taken on a journey through the sewers of Paris where tentacled creatures reside, meet a cross-dressing French spy plying his trade for Louis XV, follow a body-hopping demon across a Wild West that may or may not be our own, and catch up with a world-weary detective tricked into solving a case when he'd rather be watching the Yankees and getting drunk.

104 pages, Paperback

Published January 6, 2018

Reviews

[Lou Yuhasz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really Enjoying this magazine series.

[Michael Sigler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Broadswords and Blasters 04, 4/5

"Commander Saturn and the Deadly Invaders From Rigel" by Richard L. Rubin, 2/5
"Demons Within" by Karen Thrower, 4/5
"Monsters in Heaven" by Steve DuBois, 5/5
"A Brush with Death" by Benjamin Cooper, 3/5
"Granny May Saves the Day" by Freddie Silva, Jr., 2.5/5
"Regarding the Journal of Jessix Rutherford and Its Connection to the Beacon's Tower Island Massacre of 1446 AR" by CB Droege, 2/5
"The Lady and the Gunsmith" by Chad Eagleton, 4.5/5
"The Sewers of Paris" by DJ Tyrer, 4.5/5

[Riju Ganguly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was truly a fast-paced pulp anthology, which didn’t take much time to be over with. One perfect trash (Richard L. Rubin's 'Commander Saturn and the Deadly Invaders from Rigel') and one stunner (Chad Eagleton's 'The Lady and the Gunsmith') was surrounded by host of mediocrities.
Nevertheless, it was fun as long as the authors didn’t take themselves too seriously. Hence, three stars.