Link: How To Get Your Name on a Magazine
Magazines have been around for over 350 years. The first general interest magazine in English was The Gentleman’s Magazine, beginning in 1731. Magazines with people’s Read More
Category: Science fiction
Classic Science Fiction We Have Lost (and Found)
Reading a scanned copy of The Arkham Sampler v#2 #5 (Winter 1949) August Derleth got writers, editors and fans to compile their top twelve books Read More
Link: G. Peyton Wertenbaker, Science Fiction Pioneer
Early science fiction writers had it tough. Little or no pay and even if you succeeded, everybody thought you were nuts for writing “that junk.” Read More
British Fantasy Comics (1955-1984)
We are going to take some liberties on this one. Many of the comics I will mention here were more historical than Fantasy but appeal Read More
Link: Planet Stories: Swimming Against the Tide
By the 1950s, adventure science fiction was seen as an embarrassment by those who had once written it for the Clayton Astounding and Amazing Stories. Read More
Link: Fun in the Fourth Dimension
In 1895, H.G. Wells began his classic first masterpiece The Time Machine with a short lecture on the fourth dimension: Time. Clumsy as this was 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
Link: The Green Splotches
Ever see one of those stories that appears in all the anthologies, but you’ve never read it? For me that was “The Green Splotches” by Read More
We’ve Updated the Bookstore!
I’d like to thank M. D. Jackson for spending several hours making our bookstore more interactive. If you haven’t seen it already, he has added Read More
Alex Nino’s Korak, Son of Tarzan
April-May 1974 something strange happened. DC’s Tarzan went from 36 pages to 100 pages! Issues #230 to 235 ballooned to giant issues of Edgar Rice Read More