Introducing…For the First Time…Robots
We take robots for granted. Watching any Science Fiction show or movie, robots appear and we assume all kinds of things. Science Fiction is a Read More
Tag: Raymond Z. Gallun
Science Fiction Out of Milwaukee
When you look at the history of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror there are certain cities that stand tall as centers of activity. New York Read More
Adventures in Time and Space
Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas are credited with editing and publishing the first major Science Fiction anthology, a volume that said to the Read More
Asimov’s Golden Age
It is usually difficult to point to one book and say definitively, “That book changed me.” It is usually a gradual process with many books Read More
Astro-Adventures: A Blaster from the Past
The 1980s saw the pinnacle of small press magazines that began back in the 1930s as fanzines and improved over the decades as copying technology Read More
Link: Hand-Held Thunder: The History of the Blaster
It made sense when Science Fiction went to the stars that the brave men and women who plumbed the depths of space would need weapons Read More
Science Fiction Under the Sea
When Harry Bates and the Clayton chain created Astounding Stories of Super-Science in 1930 they did not have the technophilic drive of Hugo Gernsback or Read More
Raymond Z. Gallun, Science Fiction Innovator – Part 2
Part 1 if you missed it. After the 1930s, Raymond Z. Gallun moved away from John W. Campbell and Astounding, only occasionally appearing there. Instead Read More
Raymond Z. Gallun, Science Fiction Innovator – Part 1
Raymond Zinke Gallun (1911-1994) (pronounced Ga-Loon) was as important and brilliant a Science Fiction writer as many others who came out of the Golden Age 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