Pulp Writing: Opening With a Punch
I miss the Pulps. Not for the garish covers featuring aliens molesting sweet-young space maidens. Not for the variety that gave us the brash adventure Read More
Category: Space Opera
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
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
The Early Science Fiction of John Wyndham
John Wyndham is known to the world of Science Fiction as the writer of the very best of that English Disaster school started by H. Read More
Edgar Rice Burroughs in the Pulps
Edgar Rice Burroughs flourished during the age of the weekly magazines, All-Story Weekly, Argosy, Blue Book and Red Book. These weekly publications were also general Read More
Science Fiction Themes: What Has Changed?
One of the darlings of the Gernsback magazines was author, Clare Winger Harris (1891-1968). She may be the first official “fan-girl” of that era. (C. Read More
The Strange Moon Saga of Edgar Rice Burroughs by D. K. Latta
American writer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was a prolific creator of pulp and adventure stories. Burroughs wrote — as he himself would admit — for the Read More
Dark Worlds Magazine
Dark Worlds Magazine was an effort to recapture the excitement of the old days of the pulp magazines. Magazines like Amazing Stories and Astounding Science Fiction and Weird Tales. It was Read More