LINK: What Is the Single Best Sword & Sorcery Anthology?
A reader, who I will call Utahjim, asked me a great question the other day. He had been reading L. Sprague de Camp’s The Spell Read More
Month: January 2024
Plant Monsters of the 1960s
If you missed the last one… The 1960s opens with what might be one of the last, great Pulp adventure tales for plants. After Harrison’s Read More
More Silver Age Robot Comics – Part 3
If you miss the last one…. Well, our look at Silver Age robots is almost over. By the 1960s, robots were all over the place: Read More
More Silver Age Robot Comics – Part 2
If you missed the last one… The 1960s saw more superheroes facing off against robots. The Horror comics still used them frequently since the Comics’ Read More
More Silver Age Comics Robots – Part I
If you missed the last one… In the last two posts on robots, we covered the “Giant” robot, that being one that is larger than Read More
Conan (1967) The Thing in the Crypt
This is the first in a series of posts about the original 196os-1970s Conan paperbacks. I haven’t worried about Howard versus pastichers or any of Read More
Invisibility in the Pulps: 1920s
The original idea of something or someone being unseeable, usually because of a scientific discovery or a rare color in nature, dates back before H. Read More
Sword & Sorcery at Warren – Part 11: 1981
If you missed the last one… The blending of genres continues in 1981, with many stories falling into the Science Fiction category. SF was big Read More
Space Pirates in the Silver Age
If you missed the last one …. The Golden Age, that time of poor art but wide open rules, gave way to the Silver Age Read More
The Fantastic in the Argosy: 1928-1929
If you missed the last one… 1928 and 1929 show a real improvement over the previous years for serials. This is largely in part to Read More