The Creatures of Neil R. Jones: Part One
Neil R. Jones (1909-1988) may be remembered as the man who coined the word “astronaut” but he deserves so much more in the annals of Read More
Category: Space Opera
Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics: 1968-1972
If you missed 1966-1967… Dinosaurs were dropping like a meteor had hit the planet by the late 1960s. Star Spangled War Stories dropped them for Read More
Plant Monsters in Weird Tales
Plant monsters were a natural for Weird Tales. The Pulp featured all types too, from the romantic in “The Woman of the Wood” by A. Read More
R. F. Starzl, SF Pioneer
R. F. Starzl (1899-1976) was a promising early writer of Science Fiction for pulps like the Clayton Astounding and Amazing Stories. His career lasted only Read More
The Creatures of The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells seemed like an unstoppable juggernaut in the worlds of Scientific Romance (the term Science Fiction was decades away). The Time Machine, The Read More
Asimov’s Golden Age
It is usually difficult to point to one book and say definitively, “That book changed me.” It is usually a gradual process with many books Read More
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
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
Swords of Mars: A Gallery
Edgar Rice Burroughs remains a popular author after a hundred years for many good reasons. First off, is the sheer imagination of his storytelling. This 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