Ten Reasons Why Sword & Sorcery…
Here are ten reasons to read or write Sword & Sorcery? Why bother? Isn’t heroic fantasy just an over-worked Pulp convention that Robert E. Howard Read More
Category: Science fiction
Laurence Manning’s Tales of The Asteroid
Laurence Manning (1899-1972) was a Canadian writer probably best remembered for his “The Man Who Awoke” series but his earlier fiction is equally fun. His Read More
On the Edge of the Unknown
Cosmic Horror On the edge of the unknown lie the answers. We may not like those answers but we keep seeking them. H. P. Lovecraft Read More
Sam Moskowitz’s “Uncrowned Masters” (1940)
Sam Moskowitz’s “Uncrowned Masters” (1940) appeared in Fantascience Digest #12 (January-February 1940), so exactly eighty-one years ago. Moskowitz was twenty years old when he wrote Read More
Victor de la Fuente’s Haxtur
Victor de la Fuente’s “Haxtur” originally appeared in the Spanish anthology comic, Trinca in the early 1970s. The stories were reprinted in English for a Read More
The Strangest Science Fiction Titles
Science Fiction has an advantage when it comes to titles. You can make them as crazy as you like and editors probably won’t complain. Despite Read More
Harry Harrison- Artist!
Harry Harrison is one of the few Science Fiction writers I have actually met. I got on an elevator with him and Barry B. Longyear Read More
The Flying Death and The Giant Claw
The Flying Death and The Giant Claw share a common source, Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-1958). Adams was famous as a muckraker and newspaperman. He was Read More
The Ghost of Venus by Bob Butts
If you missed the last one… “The Ghost of Venus” by Bob Butts appeared as the four-part text feature for Novelty’s Target Comics #11-14 (December Read More
Snake Gods & Were-Serpents
Snake gods and were-serpents are the rarest of creatures! Finding Pulp stories with snakes in them is not hard. Finding weird tales or even Science Read More