The Strangest Northerns: Terror at the Poles
The typical Northern is a tale of the Gold Rush of 1898 or the lumber camps of the 1910s or even the story of prairie Read More
Tag: Astounding Science Fiction
DC Comics Versus Pulps Covers
DC Comics spawned some long-running anthology comics in the 1950s including House of Mystery in Horror and Strange Adventures in Science Fiction. The editors of Read More
Link: Espers in Space: Edmond Hamilton’s Legion of Lazarus
The 1950s was an odd time for Science Fiction. After decades of robots and space travel and time machines and external battles, the struggles went Read More
Link: Planet Stories: Swimming Against the Tide
By the 1950s, adventure science fiction was seen as an embarrassment by those who had once written it for the Clayton Astounding and Amazing Stories. Read More
Raymond Z. Gallun, Science Fiction Innovator – Part 2
Part 1 if you missed it. After the 1930s, Raymond Z. Gallun moved away from John W. Campbell and Astounding, only occasionally appearing there. Instead Read More
Link: The Green Splotches
Ever see one of those stories that appears in all the anthologies, but you’ve never read it? For me that was “The Green Splotches” by Read More
Link: Clifford D. Simak: The Beginnings of a Master
Clifford D Simak (1904-1988) had a writing career that ran for fifty-five years. He was one of the early SF writers who could adapt to Read More
Manly Wade Wellman Part 1 (1927-1940)
In the later years of Manly Wade Wellman’s career, his success became largely associated with his horror writing, first from Weird Tales and later in Read More
Robots Before the Pulps
The robot is an icon of Science Fiction, alongside the spaceship, the alien and the time machine. Of all these familiar themes, the robot is Read More
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