Fred Saberhagen’s Berserkers II
If you missed the last one… Before the Death Star, there were Berserkers. I am talking visually, of course. Star Wars‘ Death Star is a Read More
Tag: Fantasy & Science Fiction
Monsters of the Hyborian Age 15: The Slug of Larsha
If you missed the last one… “The Hall of the Dead” was an L. Sprague de Camp composition based on a Robert E. Howard outline. Read More
Plant Monsters of the 1960s
If you missed the last one… The 1960s opens with what might be one of the last, great Pulp adventure tales for plants. After Harrison’s Read More
Robbie the Robot
The name “Robbie” for a robot belongs to Isaac Asimov first. His story “Robbie” that was renamed “Strange Playfellow” by Fred Pohl when it appeared Read More
Bullard of the Space Patrol
Bullard of the Space Patrol appeared in between the classics at Astounding Science-Fiction. The stories never got a cover. Instead we saw “Total Blackout”, “Slan” Read More
Plant Monsters of the 1950s
If you missed the 1940s… With the Plant Monsters of the 1950s we see the last of the Pulps and the transition to digest-sized SF. Read More
Welcome to the Human Zoo
If you missed the last one… Welcome to the Human Zoo! This old SF idea has been bugging me for a while. How old is Read More
The Exiles of Space
In previous posts we looked at Derelicts and Castaways in Space, so why not the very popular Exiles of Space? The idea of being sent Read More
The Monsters of Jack Williamson’s “The Moon Era”
Jack Williamson’s “The Moon Era” is a wonderful adventure in the best of the Wonder Stories tradition. Wellsian in tone, we follow Stephen Conway to Read More
The Fantastic in the Argosy: 1940
If you missed the last one… Plenty of series continued into 1940. William Gray Beyer had two more installments in the Minion series, Eric North Read More