Ray A. Palmer and the Science Fiction Mystery
Ray A. Palmer is best remembered as the dictatorial editor of Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures who fostered the Shaver Mystery and later UFOs. What Read More
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Robot Pulp History in 24 Covers
The first Pulp magazine to offer robot stories was not a purely Science Fiction mag but Weird Tales, which featured the first robotic brain, giant Read More
The Early Science Fiction of John Wyndham
John Wyndham is known to the world of Science Fiction as the writer of the very best of that English Disaster school started by H. Read More
The Vines of Tarzan – A Mystery
When I began research on plant monsters I initially thought there would be Tarzan stories or comics or something in it. I naturally associated plant Read More
Edgar Rice Burroughs in the Pulps
Edgar Rice Burroughs flourished during the age of the weekly magazines, All-Story Weekly, Argosy, Blue Book and Red Book. These weekly publications were also general Read More
Dark Worlds Quarterly 4 is here!
The fourth issue of DARK WORLDS QUARTERLY is here! It has been a very long and hard winter and we’ve been doing some much needed Read More
Amazing Stories needs your help!
UPDATE: The Kickstarter campaign succeeded! With four minutes to spare some investor angel swooped in and pushed it over the top. Congratulations to Steve, Ira Read More
More Than Just Silver Underwear: The History of Space Opera
The term “Space Opera”, used to define a certain branch of Science Fiction, was coined by Wilson Tucker in 1941. It was not meant to Read More
The Art of the Shaver Mystery
by M. D. Jackson Was it a deliberate hoax or did the editor of Amazing Stories use a man’s mental illness for profit? The Shaver Read More
Captain Meek & Doctor Bird
Part Sherlock Holmes, part Professor Challenger, Doctor Bird faced sixteen encounters with the strange and fantastic and inspired such characters as Doc Savage. Captain Sterner Read More