Link: Size Does (Not) Matter: The New Paradigm
A good friend, writer Jack Mackenzie, got me thinking about book lengths in Science Fiction and how they have been tied to publishing. He also Read More
Category: Science fiction
Link: Not Quite Sword & Sorcery: Early Fantasy
Robert E. Howard may have invented Sword & Sorcery with the first King Kull tale, but he was not the only author working with the Read More
The Plant Monsters of ACG
ACG pre-Code horror comics did more than just vampires and werewolves (though lots of those). Five comic stories in four years featured killer plant monsters. Read More
Pulp Artist/Comic Artist
Doing research on my favorite Pulp artists at Field Guide to Wild American Artists, I found the end of each biography was almost always “and Read More
Link: Why Mythos Movies Suck (A Lot)
The earliest Lovecraft adaptation was The Haunted Palace in 1963. Using a title of Poe’s and a plot of HPL’s, Roger Corman serves up a Read More
The ‘Barely-There’ Costumes (and Plot) of Zardoz
The 1970’s was a curious decade for science fiction films. Almost every science fiction film released in this decade ended up being overshadowed by the Read More
Hugo’s Robots: The Gernsback Magazines
The word “robot” came to us from the 1920 play “R. U. R.” by Karl Capek. Capek’s robots are actually androids who rebel against their Read More
Link: Cosmic Mojo – Part 2
The authors of cosmic creepiness mentioned in the previous piece, “Cosmic Mojo Part 1”, were English, for Lovecraft was an anglophile of the first order. Read More
How To Become a Mythos Icon
Doing some research for this blog I was struck by a fact — if you want your Mythos baddie to become iconic, to have thousands Read More
Robots of Adventure: The Clayton Astounding
In January 1930, Science Fiction pulps changed forever. At the time, no one would have paid much attention to Astounding Stories of Super-Science, or as Read More