The Fantastical Fantasy Writer: Geoff St. Reynard
Robert W. Krepps (1919-1980) produced Science Fiction and Fantasy under the more romantic name of “Geoff St. Reynard” for two publishers in particular, Ray A. Read More
Category: Space Opera
Fox B. Holden: Here and Gone
Fox B. Holden is one of those mysterious Science Fiction writers who we know so little about. His bio from Thrilling Wonder Stories (Winter 1945) Read More
The Creatures of Neil R. Jones: Part Two
If you missed Part One… In the July 1934 issue of Wonder Stories, Hugo Gernsback published a story that rocked the Science Fiction community. It Read More
The Creatures of Neil R. Jones: Part One
Neil R. Jones (1909-1988) may be remembered as the man who coined the word “astronaut” but he deserves so much more in the annals of Read More
Plant Monsters in Weird Tales
Plant monsters were a natural for Weird Tales. The Pulp featured all types too, from the romantic in “The Woman of the Wood” by A. Read More
R. F. Starzl, SF Pioneer
R. F. Starzl (1899-1976) was a promising early writer of Science Fiction for pulps like the Clayton Astounding and Amazing Stories. His career lasted only Read More
The Creatures of The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells seemed like an unstoppable juggernaut in the worlds of Scientific Romance (the term Science Fiction was decades away). The Time Machine, The Read More
Asimov’s Golden Age
It is usually difficult to point to one book and say definitively, “That book changed me.” It is usually a gradual process with many books Read More
Link: Size Does (Not) Matter: The New Paradigm
A good friend, writer Jack Mackenzie, got me thinking about book lengths in Science Fiction and how they have been tied to publishing. He also Read More
Pulp Artist/Comic Artist
Doing research on my favorite Pulp artists at Field Guide to Wild American Artists, I found the end of each biography was almost always “and Read More