The Science Fiction of Francis Flagg
Francis Flagg is not a name that falls from the lips when people talk about the early Science Fiction writers like E. E. Smith or Read More
Tag: Amazing Stories
Serpents of the Air
Technology can date a story faster than Captain Kirk can hook up with a Venusian barmaid. One day the story is plausible, the next… A Read More
Neil R. Jones’s Zoromes Series
Neil R. Jones’s Zorome series is one of the longest running in SF history. The series began in Amazing Stories (July 1931-April 1938) under T. Read More
Paul Ernst and the Clayton Astounding
Paul Ernst (1899-1983) was the consummate professional writer, one who understood exactly what an editor wanted and provided it. Getting his start in Weird Tales Read More
Ray A. Palmer and the Science Fiction Mystery
Ray A. Palmer is best remembered as the dictatorial editor of Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures who fostered the Shaver Mystery and later UFOs. What 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
The Vines of Tarzan – A Mystery
When I began research on plant monsters I initially thought there would be Tarzan stories or comics or something in it. I naturally associated plant 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
Dark Worlds Quarterly 4 is here!
The fourth issue of DARK WORLDS QUARTERLY is here! It has been a very long and hard winter and we’ve been doing some much needed Read More