Tara, Outlaw of the Universe
When you search the word “Tara” in comic databases you usually get Tara on the Dark Continent, a Jungle Girl from the 1970s and 80s. Read More
Category: Space Opera
Link: Fanciful Tales of Time & Space: Fan Fire
Reading a scanned copy of the original Fanciful Tales #1 (Fall 1936) fills me with so many conflicting emotions. Most of them good. On the one Read More
Vaseleos Garson: Planet Stories’ Masked Man
Planet Stories was a quarterly Pulp that ran from 1939 to 1955, delivering action-oriented space opera. While to some this is trash, it was the Read More
Planet Comics Swipes
Joseph Doolin (1896-1967) was a Pulp illustrator who went into comics in the 1940s. As part of the S. M. Igor shop he worked on Read More
Link: Four-Color Sci-Fi: Science Fiction Writers Who Wrote Comics
When radio became big across America in the late 1920s, there were those who worried it would kill pulp magazines. The magazines quickly adapted though Read More
Link: Espers in Space: Edmond Hamilton’s Legion of Lazarus
The 1950s was an odd time for Science Fiction. After decades of robots and space travel and time machines and external battles, the struggles went Read More
Link: Planet Stories: Swimming Against the Tide
By the 1950s, adventure science fiction was seen as an embarrassment by those who had once written it for the Clayton Astounding and Amazing Stories. Read More
Raymond Z. Gallun, Science Fiction Innovator – Part 2
Part 1 if you missed it. After the 1930s, Raymond Z. Gallun moved away from John W. Campbell and Astounding, only occasionally appearing there. Instead Read More
We’ve Updated the Bookstore!
I’d like to thank M. D. Jackson for spending several hours making our bookstore more interactive. If you haven’t seen it already, he has added Read More
Link: Clifford D. Simak: The Beginnings of a Master
Clifford D Simak (1904-1988) had a writing career that ran for fifty-five years. He was one of the early SF writers who could adapt to Read More