James Allison in “The Tower of Time”
Reading Harvey K. Schreiber’s “Death From the Sea” got me reading other old issues of Fantastic where I found this story. “The Tower of Time” Read More
Tag: Ted White
Harvey K. Schreiber’s The Eagle and the Sword
Ted White, when he was the editor of Fantastic (April 1969-January 1979), did big things with very little money. This meant he grabbed Sword & Read More
Copies in Bronze
It surprises me greatly that more writers haven’t pastiched the Doc Savage canon. Of those that have tried, success has varied in degrees. It is Read More
The Sword & Sorcery of Gardner F. Fox
The Sword & Sorcery of Gardner F. Fox begins in the 1950s with the creation of the first true S&S comic book hero, Crom the Read More
Lin Carter: The Clark Ashton Smith Collabs
Lin Carter wrote eight Clark Ashton Smith Collabs over fifteen years. Each couplet appeared in its own distinct publication. The first two were sold to Read More
The Purpose of Fantasy
Back to 1981 The purpose of Fantasy never struck me as much of a question until I read Charles Platt’s “The Curse of the Hobbit” Read More
Ova Hamlet: The Sound of Distant Memory
Ova Hamlet The Ova Hamlet stories of Richard A. Lupoff appeared in Ted White’s Fantastic (1969-1975). There were nine stories, each a strange milestone on Read More
The Original Thongor Stories
The original Thongor stories by Lin Carter sometimes get ignored because they were not collected with the original six novels. The Thongor novels began in Read More
But Is It Sword & Sorcery?
“But is it Sword & Sorcery?” Have you ever read a book that you thought was the real deal only to ask that question? Paperback Read More
The Illustrators of Ted White’s Fantastic
This is “The Illustrators of Ted White’s Fantastic” but it could have been called “How I Learned to Draw in Columns”. Ted White took over Read More