Creating Monsters: The Morlocks
This is the first in a series of articles on writing Monster Stories. It is only fitting that the first author we should focus on Read More
Category: Science fiction
Marvel Movie Preview #1
As the name suggests, Marvel Movie Preview #1 was the first Marvel magazine of its kind. This one-shot publication adapted Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Land Read More
Wells Reimagined
Hugo Gernsback had a vision. The first all-Science Fiction magazine. It took him several years but in April 1926 he unveiled Amazing Stories onto an Read More
Five Things I Like About Fantastic Story Quarterly
Fantastic Story Quarterly, then Fantastic Story Magazine, was published by Best Books Inc. from the Winter of 1950 to the Spring of 1955. It is Read More
IMAGINATION – Where Mystery Writers Wrote SF
Writers of Science Fiction and Mystery have always shared a common point of origin in the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Though Poe is usually Read More
Link: How Bug-Eyed Was Your Monster?
(With apologies to Robert Bloch) How fair is the label of the BEM (or bug-eyed monster) in 1930s science fiction? If you believe the detractors, Read More
The Mastermind of Mars
I don’t know if other writers have experienced this or not—that moment you became a hopeless slave. For me it was when I was twelve Read More
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – Doc Savage Across the Genres
Doc Savage is hard to place in any one publisher’s pigeon-hole, which may be the reason Bantam Books reprinted the adventures with “Novel” on the Read More
Going to the Dogs – Two Beginnings
It’s not often you get to see how a writer begins his or her career. The exception is in wonderful books like The Early Del Read More
Robot Pulp History in 24 Covers
The first Pulp magazine to offer robot stories was not a purely Science Fiction mag but Weird Tales, which featured the first robotic brain, giant Read More