Jack Williamson’s “The Alien Intelligence”
If you missed the last one… Our Strange Adventures series continues with Edmond Hamilton’s good buddy, Jack Williamson. Jack would pen several fantastic adventure novels, Read More
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Edmond Hamilton’s The Lake of Life
This post is brought to you by Strange Adventures, a collection of world-spanning Horror-Adventure tales coming out in early 2025. Like Edmond Hamilton, I enjoy Read More
Moon Maids
Exploration and adventures on our Moon have been around for a while but there is a special place for beautiful women who come from that Read More
Giant Insects in the Comics: Bees
The idea of gigantic bugs including bees began with H. G. Wells’s The Food of the Gods (Pearson’s Magazine, December 1903-June 1904). Wells applied it Read More
Lost Cities of the Golden Age
In the last post I focused on the lost cities in the fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs and his Tarzan novels. I have another one Read More
The Fantastic in the Argosy: 1924-1925
If you missed the last one… 1924-1925 proved a good two years if you liked novel serials with four by Edgar Rice Burroughs, two by Read More
The Early Jack Williamson: 1928-1933
Jack Williamson might be the longest working Pulp SF writer in history, writing from 1928 (“The Metal Man”, Amazing Stories, December 1928) to The Stonehenge Read More
The Fantastic in the Argosy: 1922-1923
If you missed 1921… 1922 saw a tapering off of fantastic material. 1921 had offered thirty pieces while both 1922 and 1923 only just under Read More
The Underwater City in the Golden Age
The concept of the underwater city, usually a futuristic deal under a glass dome, is as old as Science Fiction. John Wilkins, in Mathematicall Magick Read More
The Fantastic in the Argosy: 1920
The Fantastic in the Argosy in the 1920s makes sense after looking at Argosy in the 1930s. If you missed the 1930s, go here. No Read More