Paul Dallas: Fifties’ Flame
Paul Dallas (1921-1984) was a radio broadcaster from the UK who moved to America and wrote Science Fiction for three brief years. All of his Read More
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John W. Jakes – Part 2: The Magazine and Paperback Years
If you miss Part 1… John Jakes, after five years in the Pulps, moved on to writing for magazines and novels. His story output slowed Read More
High Versus Low Fantasy or You Can’t Get There From Here!
High Fantasy vs. Low Fantasy has always been a bit of gray area for me. I can remember submitting to Bardic Runes back in the Read More
The Return of a Master: Lee Brown Coye
Lee Brown Coye (1907-1981) made his debut on the covers of anthologies like Arkham House’s Sleep No More (1944) before moving onto the pages of Read More
The Passage of Dilvish
Roger Zelazny’s Dilvish the Damned had two distinct periods of development, separated by a twelve year hiatus. The first explosion of story writing was in Read More
The Magazines of Sword & Sorcery
Sword & Sorcery is published in many places but the magazines listed here, though not always big publications, were important to the sub-genre. Many of Read More
Fantasy Fiction: An Oasis of the Fifties
Fantasy Fiction was a Pulp magazine that ran for only four issues from March to November 1953. It was produced by Future Publications, the publisher Read More
Link: Ted White’s Fantastic: Short Heroic Fantasy
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction began its life as The Magazine of Fantasy. By the second issue the words “and Science Fiction” had Read More
The Author With a Thousand Heads: Round-Robins
Doc Savage had an adventure called The Thousand Headed Man in 1934. The Thousand Headed Man guards a lost city in the jungle. This piece Read More
A Brief History of Sword & Sorcery
So, What the Heck Did You Think It Was Made Of? This piece is a condensed history dedicated to a sub-genre of fantasy called “Sword Read More