Category Archives: Science Fiction

Happy Red Planet Day 2022!

According to the calendar site Happy Days 365, Red Planet Day “honors the launch of the spacecraft Mariner 4, a robotic interplanetary probe on 28th November 1964 by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). In the eight months it was on its … Continue reading

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Happy Read a Book Day 2022!

Today is National Read a Book Day, which has been celebrated every September 6th since…well, nobody seems to know precisely when this “holiday” began, or who started it, but it’s a celebration of reading, so it’s all good, right? And if … Continue reading

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Happy Book Lovers Day 2022!

Hey, fans of reading! Today is Book Lovers Day, “an unofficial holiday observed to encourage bibliophiles to celebrated reading and literature” (according to Wikipedia) that’s celebrated every August 9th. And if you’re looking for the right book on this special day, … Continue reading

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Are You Ready for the Summer (Reading)?

Staycation? Vacation? Whether you’re on the road or just hanging at home, today is the official start of the summer season (which ends September 23), and that means summer reading. And you know what would make for perfect reading this … Continue reading

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Richard C. White’s On Wings of Steel: A Steampunk Adventure Coming from StarWarp Concepts!

With all the havoc caused by the pandemic over the past couple of years, and its effects on the publishing industry as general, it’s true that, like other houses, releases have been slow in coming from ’Warp Central, but we’re … Continue reading

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Happy 110th Anniversary, Dejah Thoris and John Carter!

Where does the time go? It seems like only early last century readers were first transported to the planet Mars via the adventures of a visiting Earthman who learns that dangerous forms of life exist there, and now here it … Continue reading

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RIP Ron Goulart, Vampirella Novelist and Sci-Fi Legend

“Ah, what a declining era,” sighed Pendragon, “wherein breasts are more important than magic.” “Breasts have always been more important than magic,” said Vampirella. Such were the sarcastic-but-technically-true words of author Ron Goulart in the 1976 novel Vampirella: Deadwalk, one of … Continue reading

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The Best of 2021: Readers’ Favorites

Even with the threat of the coronavirus pandemic complicating our lives (or maybe because of it!), if there was one comfort that people could turn to in these troubling times, it was reading. Fiction, nonfiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, science fiction—no … Continue reading

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Welcome to StarWarp Concepts!

In case you’re wondering who we are, StarWarp Concepts is a publisher of dark-fantasy and fantasy novels, comic books, and graphic novels that are available for sale in brick-and-mortar stores and through select online booksellers and distributors (as well as our … Continue reading

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Happy Science Fiction Day 2022!

According to the National Day Calendar, National Science Fiction Day was launched in 2011 and was meant to correspond with this being the birth date of legendary sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov—author of the Foundation Trilogy (now the basis for the Apple TV+ … Continue reading

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