I thought I’d put my shingle out to other SF/F/H and Pulp bloggers. I am quite interested in writing guest posts for your blog. (And equally interested in having your posts appear here.) I want to write about Space Opera, Cthulhu Mythos, Sword & Sorcery and other topics (robots, comic books, strange Northerns, Pulp in general.) But primarily these three. If you want to chat, email here.
Some guest posts I have done include:
“Locked in Time: Time Machine Classics” was one of many for Michael May’s Adventureblog
“How Bug-Eyed Was Your Monster?” at Pulp.net
“The Journeys of the Viking Prince” at Broadswords & Blasters
“Writing the Mythos: Of Serpents & Worms” at Innsmouth Free Press
“Conan the Cimmerian: Sword & Sorcery Superstar” at Amazing Stories
“At the Sign of the Prancing Pony” at Swords & Sorcery Magazine
Some Guests We Have Had:
The Strange Moon Saga of Edgar Rice Burroughs by D. K. Latta
Art by Frank Frazetta
Art by Ken Kelly and James Gurney
I’m scheduled to give a talk on the history of space opera in the Fall and would be interested in hearing your thoughts on the actual origins of the genre, particularly in light of Gary Westfahl’s book, The Mechanics of Wonder, which provides compelling evidence that science-fiction as a genre began in 1926 when it was for the first time codified by Hugo Gernsback in the pages of Amazing Stories.
And yet, Edgar Rice Burroughs was writing the template for what would become known as space opera starting with A Princess of Mars from 1912 on (and there are predecessors to that from the 1800s), and that template eschews much of what the genre was expressly intended as, particularly in its later re-codified form by John W. Campbell.
Some if that comes down to hair splitting. Is planetary romance space opera? Westfahl may have missed Edmond Hamilton’s Interstellar Patrol in Weird Tales. Looking over the precise of his book, I suspect I would agree with him about the genrification of Space Opera.
Would you like a post on this or just my opinion?