Broadswords and Blasters Issue 10: Pulp Magazine With Modern Sensibilities

Our tenth issue brings you the fantastic:Eddie Generous with his tale of a “Sunday Speed Trap,” the ensuing police chase, and maybe some ritual sacrifice to ancient Old Ones. E.F. Sweetman with her tale of ecological horror on the high seas and a narrator who says, “Hello from Garbage Island.”Joanna Maciejewska’s “Yet Another Vessel” where we encounter terrifying enchanted artifacts and the kinds of psychopathic individuals who seek them out. Brian McNett's “Armageddon and the Way Out West" where he introduces us to Doctor Thaddeus Armageddon and his helmsman Delrick Borograve in their exploits through the Wild West aboard the skyship Devastation.Paul Alex Gray and his tale of artificial intelligence, giant mecha, and romance, “Battle Borne Dreams Never Die.” Julie Rea, who takes us to the flooded future of 2202, where scavengers “Lela and Bat” comb through the remains of Philadelphia. Joshua Grasso’s “Barbarians in the Boudoir” where we see the magician Hildigrim, previously imprisoned for black magic, paroled but only so he can help the Archduke avert a war with barbarians from a far distant land.Paul Starkey’s “Below Noon,” a tale of existential horror in the Wild West, as a man comes to grips with the reality of Hell.Patrick S. Baker, who takes us home with the further adventures of the warrior hero Kauahoa, as he takes on “The Cannibals in the Mist."