Attack of the Fifty-Foot Monsters!
H. G. Wells famous scientific romances have been adapted by filmmakers since at least 1919. The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Read More
Category: Science fiction
Moon Maids
Exploration and adventures on our Moon have been around for a while but there is a special place for beautiful women who come from that Read More
Giant Insects in the Comics: Bees
The idea of gigantic bugs including bees began with H. G. Wells’s The Food of the Gods (Pearson’s Magazine, December 1903-June 1904). Wells applied it Read More
Sloane’s Second-Hand Robots
If you missed the last one… Thomas O’Conor Sloane (1851-1940) was seventy-seven years old when he assumed the helm of Amazing Stories. His son, John, Read More
Days of the Triffids
John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids (aka “Revolt of the Triffids”) was a watershed moment in Science Fiction as well as in the career Read More
The Dark Worlds Podcast
I had a reader who was not aware of our podcasts so I figured it couldn’t hurt to do a post with a list of Read More
Invisibility in the Pulps: 1930
If you missed the last one… The 1930s saw invisibility become one of the major themes in Science Fiction Pulps. The last post covered an Read More
Hugo Gernsback’s Creatures From Wonder Stories II
If you missed the last one… Last time I focused on five of the better realized creatures from Wonder Stories. This time I’ve got five Read More
Lost Cities of the Golden Age
In the last post I focused on the lost cities in the fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs and his Tarzan novels. I have another one Read More
Ghost Writers in the Sky!
People don’t write stories about typewriters anymore. Even magical or haunted ones. It’s not surprising. In my collection The Book of the Black Sun I Read More