Toka the Jungle King or How to Edgar Rice Burroughs
Ray A. Palmer, editor of Fantastic Adventures, was always on the look-out for a good Edgar Rice Burroughs clone. He published the actual ERB in Read More
Tag: Amazing Stories
Leigh Brackett, Queen of Space
Leigh Brackett was one quarter of Space Opera’s Big Four (Edmond Hamilton, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore. These four were actually two married couples who Read More
Serpents of the Air
Technology can date a story faster than Captain Kirk can hook up with a Venusian barmaid. One day the story is plausible, the next… A Read More
Neil R. Jones’s Zoromes Series
Neil R. Jones’s Zorome series is one of the longest running in SF history. The series began in Amazing Stories (July 1931-April 1938) under T. Read More
Paul Ernst and the Clayton Astounding
Paul Ernst (1899-1983) was the consummate professional writer, one who understood exactly what an editor wanted and provided it. Getting his start in Weird Tales Read More
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
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
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
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
Science Fiction as Social Commentary
Despite its far flung settings and futuristic subjects, the best SF still has ties to the here and now The very best science fiction, whether Read More