Cavemen (No Dinosaurs!)
This post is brought to you by Bearshirt #5 The Beacon House and Other Stories by G. W. Thomas. The six short stories in this Read More
Tag: Jack London
Invisibility in the Pulps: 1920s
The original idea of something or someone being unseeable, usually because of a scientific discovery or a rare color in nature, dates back before H. Read More
Yellow Peril in the SF Pulps
The Pulps did not invent the idea of “The Yellow Peril”. Science Fiction had been promoting this racist fear since at least 1880 and Last Read More
Lin Carter’s People of the Dragon
When reading Lin Carter you have to ask yourself before beginning: “Which author is he pastiching now?” If there is pure Lin Carter fiction out Read More
Everything Old Is New Again
It shouldn’t surprise me but it always does. You write what you think is a new idea into a story only to find out someone Read More
An Interview With Jason M Waltz
Jason M Waltz is the editor at Rogue Blades Entertainment, a company that focuses on action-driven Fantasy. His latest anthology is Death’s Sting—Where Art Thou? Read More
Link: The Hundred Year Test
Can you name one sports record from 1917? Football, baseball, hockey, anything? And to make it harder, a record that stands to this day? I Read More
Spear and Fang: A Prehistoric Premiere
“Spear and Fang” (Weird Tales, July 1925) was Robert E. Howard’s premiere as an author. He was only nineteen when it appeared in Weird Tales. Read More
A Brief History of Sword & Sorcery
So, What the Heck Did You Think It Was Made Of? This piece is a condensed history dedicated to a sub-genre of fantasy called “Sword Read More
Cave Men (and Women) & Dinosaurs
By M.D. Jackson and G. W. Thomas This post is brought to you by Bearshirt #2: The Hidden World by G. W. Thomas. The Arthan Read More