The Aliens of Penton & Blake
John W. Campbell gave us the aliens of Penton & Blake in a series of five stories. Campbell, who was the star of super-science fiction, Read More
Tag: Amazing Stories
Buck Rogers: The Golden, Silver and Bronze Age Comics
Buck Rogers had comics in the Golden, Silver and Bronze Ages of Comics. At first, like any self-respecting comic strip character, these were collections of Read More
The Islands of Hugo Gernsback
The Islands of Hugo Gernsback takes us in a slightly different direction than our last trip. Last time it was Weird Tales and terror tales. Read More
Avon’s Space Detective
If you missed the last one… Avon’s Space Detective starred The Avenger, Rod Hathaway. (Not to be confused with Paul Ernst’s The Avenger, Richard Benson.) Read More
The Meteoric Carl Selwyn
The Meteoric Carl Selwyn was a space opera writer who specialized in Science Fiction. This adjective is apt since he went from unknown to one Read More
Paul Dallas: Fifties’ Flame
Paul Dallas (1921-1984) was a radio broadcaster from the UK who moved to America and wrote Science Fiction for three brief years. All of his Read More
Nat Schachner & Arthur Leo Zagat: Starting Out Together
Nat Schachner & Arthur Leo Zagat were a writing duo that got their start in the Gernsback magazines. How they met and began writing together Read More
Fantastic Adventures and A. Merritt
A. Merritt inspired a sub-genre of Science Fantasy we might call “Fantastic Adventures”. His placing of his novels like The Face in the Abyss and Read More
The Valley Was Still – Low Lying Places in Weird Tales
“The Valley Was Still” is a classic tale by Manly Wade Wellman from Weird Tales. It was filmed as “Still Valley” for Twilight Zone, shown Read More
Frank Brueckel Jr.: Gernsbackian Hobbyist
Frank J. Brueckel, Jr. (1910-1976) was a Hugo Gernsback writer in the early days of Pulp Science Fiction. When Hugo lost Amazing Stories, Brueckel went Read More