Hugo Gernsback’s Interplanetary Contest of 1931-1932
Note: All the artwork in this article was created by the legendary Frank R. Paul. Hugo Gernsback was a clever business man, even if he Read More
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Brak the Barbarian: A History
The Barbarian Age was not a remote time after the fall of Rome but the years 1968 to 1981 or so. Beginning with the Lancer Read More
A Cowboy, A Space Captain, a Private Detective and a Barbarian Walk Into a Bar…
That could be the beginnings of a really lame joke, but it’s something more. All four of these characters, these separate genre icons, share something Read More
Horror Science Fiction
Science Fiction. To some it is a literature of ideas, with the intent to explore, to wonder, to question. To others it is a fun-filled Read More
Guardians of the Ancient: Chapel Hill Reunion
Sometimes fans can get so heated up by a favorite story sequence or saga that they start to see examples everywhere. For me it was Read More
Sword & Sorcery versus Sword & Planet
A swordsman, his arms bearing red wounds, limps across a battlefield covered in bodies. His helmet is gone; his shield is broken. The flag of Read More
Sherlock Holmes Parodies
Every time you turn around someone comes out with their own Sherlock Holmes novel these days. But almost from the very beginning other writers have Read More
An Elric of Melnibone Gallery
Michael Moorcock’s albino swordsman appeared for the first time in Science Fantasy #47 (1961) in the story “The Dreaming City”. Fifty-eight years later, television finally Read More
Portraits of Gollum
If you are like just about every person on the planet you have this great sculpture in your office or den. We all got them Read More
Tarzan: King of the Ring
The idea of Tarzan (or some other jungle lord) taking on the heavy weight champion of the world in a round of fisticuffs is a Read More