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Link: Stranded on a Fearsome Planet: Two Novels of Survival

January 24, 2020 G. W. Thomas 0

There is something immediately appealing about a killer planet. Science fiction has used the idea on numerous occasions, but the idea remains simple and the Read More

Link: Tweenies of Venus: The Early Asimov

January 15, 2020 G. W. Thomas 0

Isaac Asimov never made any secret about the fact that he was not an instant success. Where Robert A Heinlein and AE van Vogt exploded Read More

Link: Dreamer’s World: A Tribute to Normal Bean

January 14, 2020 G. W. Thomas 0

Edmond Hamilton wrote seventy-nine stories for Weird Tales and amongst them are several classics including “Thundering Worlds,” “Day of Judgment,” and “He That Hath Wings” Read More

Link: The Legion of Space: Lest We Forget

January 13, 2020 G. W. Thomas 1

We live in a world that ignores its past. “Everything old is new again” is a kinder way to say it. Even Science Fiction does Read More

Boris Dolgov: Weird Tales Artist

January 12, 2020 G. W. Thomas 1

Being an artist for Weird Tales was not a fast track to fame and fortune. It is only in retrospect that names like Hugh Rankin, Read More

Link: When Planets Clashed: War in Space

January 9, 2020 G. W. Thomas 0

Manly Wade Wellman continually surprises me. “When Planets Clashed,” his writing debut back in Wonder Stories Quarterly Spring 1931 is no exception. I expected a juvenile Read More

Link: The End of a Beautiful Friendship: Creators’ Rights

January 7, 2020 G. W. Thomas 0

The fight over creators’ rights seems like ancient lore these days, but for those of us who remember Destroyer Duck and all the fuss that Read More

The Author With a Thousand Heads: Round-Robins

January 6, 2020 G. W. Thomas 2

Doc Savage had an adventure called The Thousand Headed Man in 1934. The Thousand Headed Man guards a lost city in the jungle. This piece Read More

Munsey Covers for Edgar Rice Burroughs

January 5, 2020 G. W. Thomas 0

Growing up in the 1970s, Edgar Rice Burroughs had wonderful artists like Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo and Roy G. Krenkel to illustrate his paperback covers. Read More

Link: Manly Wade Wellman’s Lee Granger, Jungle King

January 4, 2020 G. W. Thomas 0

Manly Wade Wellman has many feathers in his cap: famous Weird Tales writer, a World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award, an Edgar Award for True Crime, Read More