The Long, Twisted History of the World’s Most Unusual Wizard…The Rainbow Man
It usually starts with the question, “Did you get the name from the Pogues’ song?” The answer is yes. The Rainbow Man is a collection Read More
The Monster Genre
I had an illuminating experience recently, one that allowed me to see more clearly myself as a writer. A good friend of mine sent me Read More
Growing Up Star Trek
Growing up in North Central Alberta you might wonder how a small town boy like myself becomes a Science Fiction fan. My dad was into Read More
How To Be an Occult Detective
I’ve loved the Occult Detective since I was twelve. That was 1975 and Carl Kolchak was on the television. Mine was a black& white Kenwood. Read More
The Art of the Shaver Mystery
by M. D. Jackson Was it a deliberate hoax or did the editor of Amazing Stories use a man’s mental illness for profit? The Shaver Read More
Rear Windows: Hollywood and Cornell Woolrich
In 2007, the movie Disturbia, starring Shia Lebeouf, came and went and the older crowd just shrugged and said, “Rear Window”. Replace the word “murderer” Read More
The ‘Barely-There’ Costumes of Logan’s Run
by Jack Mackenzie In the year before Star Wars, a Science Fiction film made a scene with its costumes – or lack thereof! Science Fiction Read More
Cracking the Colour Code of Mars: The Barsoomian “Trilogy” of Edgar Rice Burroughs
by D. K. Latta Burroughs’ Mars is filled with races of all colours, but do those those colours have earthly analogs? Best remembered today as Read More
Captain Meek & Doctor Bird
Part Sherlock Holmes, part Professor Challenger, Doctor Bird faced sixteen encounters with the strange and fantastic and inspired such characters as Doc Savage. Captain Sterner Read More
Marc Scott Zicree of Space Command
Marc Scott Zicree, author of The Twilight Zone Companion and numerous episodes of SF television including Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Star Read More