Rainbow of Reprints
Everything Old Is New Again! Reprinting Science Fiction began right from the beginning of American Pulp Science Fiction. Farnsworth Wright, over at Weird Tales, brought Read More
Author: G. W. Thomas
Fantasy in the Argosy: 1921
If you missed the last one… 1921 began with the same pattern as the previous year, with small stories getting illustrations while the big ones Read More
Victorian and Edwardian Dinosaurs
I saw 65 last night and enjoyed the dinosaurs in it thoroughly. As to be expected there were Jurassic Park moments in it, but not Read More
The Supernatural Mystery – A Quintessential Library
Mystery fiction and Horror fiction are fruit from the same tree. The Gothics of the 1760-1820s spawned many different varieties of tales. Some were actually Read More
The Strangest Northerns: The Mystery of the Ghost Gold
“The Mystery of the Ghost Gold” is the lead novella in the collection The Long Arm of the Law (1948) by William Byron Mowery. The Read More
The Exiles of Space
In previous posts we looked at Derelicts and Castaways in Space, so why not the very popular Exiles of Space? The idea of being sent Read More
Hugo’s Monsters: Creatures from Wonder Stories
Jack Williamson’s fascinating tale from February 1932, “The Moon Era” got me wondering about what other monsters Hugo had published in Wonder Stories. Surely there Read More
Sword & Sorcery Stories You Might Have Missed XII
The Guardian of the Vault “The Guardian of the Vault” by Paul Spencer (Years’ Best Fantasy 2, 1976) is a story chosen by Lin Carter Read More
The Underwater City in the Golden Age
The concept of the underwater city, usually a futuristic deal under a glass dome, is as old as Science Fiction. John Wilkins, in Mathematicall Magick Read More
The Derelicts of Space
If you missed the last one…Castaways of Space… Derelicts of Space is one of my favorite themes in Science Fiction. Those abandoned old ships could Read More