Link: Adam Link: The Autobiography of a Mechanical Man
Sympathetic robot characters were not the norm in the 1930s. Robots were either the tools of mad scientists or out-of-control monsters. Isaac Asimov’s fame as Read More
Tag: Eando Binder
Link: Zarnak: Forgotten Forerunner
When I wrote this piece I believed Max Plaisted was a pseudonym of Jack Binder. This may be incorrect. Max Plaisted was born the same Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Fawcett Style
Fawcett Comics was the big rival for DC back in the 1940s. Science Fiction writers like Manly Wade Wellman and Alfred Bester penned the craziest Read More
Fan Fury: If You Cut Me, Do I Not Bleed in Four Colors?
I have been spending the last three months on research – that essentially means taking apart scans of Pulps so that I can aggregate the 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
Going to the Dogs – Two Beginnings
It’s not often you get to see how a writer begins his or her career. The exception is in wonderful books like The Early Del 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
Weird Tales & Robot Science Fiction
Hugo Gernsback launched Amazing Stories in April 1926. This was a big deal for “scientifiction” as Hugo called it. An all-Science Fiction magazine! This would Read More