Ice Planets
If you missed the last one… Ice Planets are part of the Space Opera landscape. Whether your first one was Star Trek‘s Sarpeidon (1969), Star Read More
Category: Space Westerns
Now In Paperback!
As promised, paperback editions. Tomorrow we will have Bearshirt #2 and #3 as well as The Masterless Apprentice. Thanks to M. D. Jackson for getting Read More
Avon’s Space Detective
If you missed the last one… Avon’s Space Detective starred The Avenger, Rod Hathaway. (Not to be confused with Paul Ernst’s The Avenger, Richard Benson.) Read More
Nat Schachner & Arthur Leo Zagat: Starting Out Together
Nat Schachner & Arthur Leo Zagat were a writing duo that got their start in the Gernsback magazines. How they met and began writing together Read More
Science Fiction Writers Who Wrote Westerns
The collection Westerns of the 40s (1977) surprised me when I saw who the editor was, Damon Knight. That pillar of the Science Fiction community Read More
Alien Space Bats & Science Fiction Vampires
This post begins: When I wrote about Alien Space Bats I was surprised how few there actually were. I thought the Pulps would be brimming Read More
Space Opera from the Big Four: The Raider of the Spaceways
“The Raider of the Spaceways” is an odd debut in Science Fiction. It wasn’t Henry Kuttner’s first story (his nineteenth) but it was his first Read More
Robots in the 1950s Golden Age
Robots in the 1950s Golden Age changed very little from the horrible invaders of the 1940s. The robots of the 1950s tended to be in Read More
Charlton’s Space Western
Charlton’s Space Western caught my eye because I thought that term was fairly new. The comic ran for six issues in September-October 1952 to August Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Space Western Style
Charlton’s Space Western #42 (February 1953) had a one-pager set in the Canadian West. “An Amazing Space Journey: A Tale of the Canadian West” was Read More