The Imaginary Realms of

Gilbert M. Stack

March to Other Worlds Day 31 River of Death by Gilbert M. Stack

As we bring this year’s March to Other Worlds to a close, I’d like to spotlight my Legionnaire series and specifically, the fourteenth volume, River of Death, which I published this month.

I’ve been reading fantasy novels since at least the sixth grade when my mother bought me The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. That interest led me to pursue ...

March to Other Worlds Day 30 The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein

When I was in the ninth grade, I joined The Science Fiction Book Club and got my first five books for a dollar. One of those books was called A Heinlein Trio and the first of the stories was The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein. It was the second Heinlein book I read (the first was Between Planets which was serialized as a comic book in Boy’s Life magazine) and it...

March to Other Worlds Day 29 A Soldier of Poloda by Lee Strong

As we near the end of this year’s March, I’ve invited Chris L. Adams back to give a guest review. Last year, Chris reviewed The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This year, he turns his attention to a Burroughs near-spin-off, A Solider of Poloda by Lee Strong. Here’s the review:

Like many fans of Edgar Rice Burroughs (ERB), I have often reread his two novelett...

March to Other Worlds Day 28 Into the Looking Glass by John Ringo

To close out the fourth week of the March to Other Worlds, we’re going to immerse ourselves in Into the Looking Glass, a classic John Ringo “target rich environment” style novel with a lot of science fiction thrown in for good measure. The series begins with an explosion—nuclear in appearance but without the hard radiation. The explosion was triggered by a science experiment wh...

March to Other Worlds Day 27 The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon

For Day 27, I want to bring you back to the middle of the twentieth century and the first series I ever read. I was six years old and we got the first book, The Tower Treasure, as part of a deal on the back of a cereal box. When I finished it, my father (probably unintentionally) confirmed me as a reader forever by asking me to tell him the entire plot at the breakfast table. I ended up reading all of the blu...

March to Other Worlds Day 26 The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

As we get close to the end of our fourth week of the March, I want to introduce the most difficult book in this year’s event. It’s called The Eyre Affair and I’m fairly certain I didn’t understand everything I was supposed to in this novel. And yet, I really loved it! On the surface, this is an alternate history style sf novel which is an English professor’s wet dream and the stuff ...

On Tuesday night at 6pm Eastern Time, I will be participating in a panel entitled: Science Fiction and Fantasy: Genre and Community hosted by the English Department of Fordham University. In addition to myself, the panel will host authors like Jane Lindskold and Paul Levinson and many others. If you're interested, you can register here:

https://www.universe.com/events/science-fiction-and-fantasy-genre-and-community-tickets-PW4RC5

March to Other Worlds Day 25 Bite Me by Marion G. Harmon

As we continue with the fourth week of the March to Other Worlds, I offer a unique book in the superhero genre by Marion G. Harmon whose work has appeared in the March to Other Worlds 2020 and 2022. Harmon is best known for his Wearing the Cape series—one of the best superhero worlds on the market today. Bite Me is a spinoff novel from Harmon’s main storyline. It follows the exploits ...

March to Other Worlds Day 24 The Valley of Despair by Chris L. Adams

Chris L. Adams has a talent for writing books that feel like they were crafted by some of the masters writing in the first half of the twentieth century, but read like they were written today. The result are novels that feel like lost works by people like Edgar Rice Burroughs. That’s who I think of when I read The Valley of Despair, which was recently reissued as a fabulous audiobook narrated by Wil...

March to Other Worlds Day 23 The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

On Day 2 of the March this year, we took a look at Godzilla vs. Kong—the two classic large scale monsters who practically invented the concept of the kaiju. Today we’re going to look at a truly wonderful novel by John Scalzi that plays around with the kaiju idea. I think I should start by stating that while I really liked this book, I almost didn’t get past the first chapter. It ju...