
10 Sword & Sorcery Pulp Era Firsts
This month RAGE machine Books is all about Sword & Sorcery. Jack Mackenzie has released his first of two collections about Sirtago & Poet, Blades Read More
This month RAGE machine Books is all about Sword & Sorcery. Jack Mackenzie has released his first of two collections about Sirtago & Poet, Blades Read More
This post is brought to you by The Wild Inc. series by Jack Mackenzie. Beginning with The Shattered Men, then The Deadly Mister Punch, and Read More
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
If you missed the last one… Thomas O’Conor Sloane (1851-1940) was seventy-seven years old when he assumed the helm of Amazing Stories. His son, John, Read More
If you missed the last one… The 1930s saw invisibility become one of the major themes in Science Fiction Pulps. The last post covered an Read More
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
If you missed the last one…. Space pirates are a given in any system where goods are transported between planets. Like the buccaneers of old, Read More
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
The enchanted sword has been a part of heroic fantasy since the beginning. Beowulf slays Grendel’s mother with an elder blade he conveniently finds in Read More
Time is a fine polisher. Take for example Charles L. Grant’s words from 1983 and the Introduction to Shadows 6: “There are Critters and there Read More