Link: Espers in Space: Edmond Hamilton’s Legion of Lazarus
The 1950s was an odd time for Science Fiction. After decades of robots and space travel and time machines and external battles, the struggles went Read More
Category: Science fiction
When the Tripods Came
The prequel to John Christopher’s Tripods trilogy, When the Tripods Came (1988) was a nice addition to a series that all ready has a classic Read More
Link: James Rosenquest: Man or Pseudoman?
If you read a lot of old SF mags like I do, you will surely come across names you aren’t familiar with. A quick look Read More
The Abduction of Henry Twigg: A Portal Fantasy
Strange Worlds #8 (August 1952) featured a Joe Kubert drawn comic called “The Abduction of Henry Twigg”. Unfortunately the writer is not known though it Read More
The Magazines of Sword & Sorcery
Sword & Sorcery is published in many places but the magazines listed here, though not always big publications, were important to the sub-genre. Many of Read More
Everything Old Is New Again
It shouldn’t surprise me but it always does. You write what you think is a new idea into a story only to find out someone Read More
The Sentient Trees of Science Fiction
The idea of sentient trees in Science Fiction had become one of the genre’s silly old cliches by the 1960s. John Wyndham’s The Day of Read More
Link: Star Begotten: A Monstrous Rebuttle
Star Begotten by HG Wells is one of those novels that you rarely see. The science fiction people tend towards the early stuff: The Time Read More
Fantasy Fiction: An Oasis of the Fifties
Fantasy Fiction was a Pulp magazine that ran for only four issues from March to November 1953. It was produced by Future Publications, the publisher Read More
Link: The Lovecraftian Alphabet: Adjectives in Mythos Fiction
I think there can be little doubt anymore that Lovecraft’s reputation as the greatest horror writer of the 20th century is set. The academics have Read More