Arthur J. Burks – Part 5: 1931
If you missed the last one… Selling to Harry Bates at Astounding, Burks returns to Horror fiction with the same editor (for 2c a word) Read More
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Arthur J. Burks – Part 4: 1930
If you missed the last one… 1930 is the year Arthur J. Burks tries his hand at Science Fiction for the first time. The magazine Read More
Arthur J. Burks – Part 3: 1929
If you missed the last one… 1929 is for me a disappointment because Burks is so busy writing war and flying stories, he produces no Read More
Invisibility in the Pulps: 1931-1932
If you missed the last one… Invisibility has become a familiar idea to the Pulps by 1931. It appears with some explanation (usually involving atoms) Read More
Frank Belknap Long’s Solar System
Yesterday was the 95th anniversary of the first Buck Rogers comic strip ever published in the newspapers. In honor of that Space Opera milestone, here Read More
Space Invaders!
If you missed the last one… We all remember the video game Space Invaders if you are over fifty. But you’d need to be a Read More
Knight’s Science Fiction of the Thirties
A list of 1930s Science Fiction Anthologies is a pretty short. Zero. Nada. Zip. The first real SF anthology was Raymond J. Healy and J. Read More
Space Pirates!
If you missed the last one…. Space pirates are a given in any system where goods are transported between planets. Like the buccaneers of old, Read More
Ice Planets
If you missed the last one… Ice Planets are part of the Space Opera landscape. Whether your first one was Star Trek‘s Sarpeidon (1969), Star Read More
Condemned to the Prison Planet!
If you missed the last one… Condemned to the Prison Planet! Those words send a chill down anyone’s spine. Whether it is Chateau D’if, Rura Read More