Exploration Team by Murray Leinster
Today’s post is brought to you by Ships of Steel, an upcoming collection of Space Opera novellas in the Swords of Fire format. Each story Read More
Tag: Astounding Science Fiction
Asteroids: 1940-1942
If you missed the last one… This post is brought to you by Ships of Steel, a new anthology out at the end of the Read More
Invisibility in the Pulps: 1933-1939
If you missed the last one… This post is brought to you by The Cryo Game and Other Stories, the latest short story collection from Read More
Plant Monsters of the 1960s
If you missed the last one… The 1960s opens with what might be one of the last, great Pulp adventure tales for plants. After Harrison’s Read More
Frank Belknap Long’s Solar System
Yesterday was the 95th anniversary of the first Buck Rogers comic strip ever published in the newspapers. In honor of that Space Opera milestone, here Read More
Space Invaders!
If you missed the last one… We all remember the video game Space Invaders if you are over fifty. But you’d need to be a Read More
Knight’s Science Fiction of the Thirties
A list of 1930s Science Fiction Anthologies is a pretty short. Zero. Nada. Zip. The first real SF anthology was Raymond J. Healy and J. Read More
Willard E. Hawkins, High Mountain Scribe
Willard E. Hawkins (1887-1970) was a Pulp writer, an editor and newspaperman from Colorado. He didn’t write exclusively for the fantastic Pulps, selling Westerns and Read More
Bullard of the Space Patrol
Bullard of the Space Patrol appeared in between the classics at Astounding Science-Fiction. The stories never got a cover. Instead we saw “Total Blackout”, “Slan” Read More
The Lost Cities of Mars
If you missed the last one… I am currently reading Lin Carter’s The Man Who Loved Mars (1973). It features Ilionis, “…the long-lost and extremely Read More