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The thought that there are nowhere near as many good science fiction movies as there should be is one that I’ve had for a long time, probably since my teens, but it’s only recently that I decided to investigate it. Certainly, everyone’s tastes are different, and we can quibble about the quality of individual pictures, […]
Astounding Frontiers is a brand new magazine that embraces the pulp brand– one that promises to “evoke wonder in the way the golden age of science fiction did.” This is absolutely a step in the right direction and I have no doubts that if there had been magazines on the newsstands during the nineties even […]
Author James Desborough has responded to criticism from an unnamed Pulp Revolutionary. It’s a good video and well worth a watch. My take on this…? Looking at the pulps through a “modern” eye as he’s proposing has already been done. Decades ago even. There is nothing revolutionary about such an act. Notice how James grapples […]
Some stories are just so good, you want people to be able to read them without any preconceived notions of what they are about or why they are noteworthy. Here are several of that sort: “The True History of the Hare and the Tortoise” by Lord Dunsany “Memory” by H. P. Lovecraft “Nightmare In Yellow” […]
SIXTEEN SCIENCE FICTION SETTINGS FOR YOUR CAMPAIGN! GOLDEN AGE ADVENTURES is an anthology of 16 roleplaying adventures based on “Golden Age” stories by famous science fiction writers of the 1930s-50s. Each adventure comes with three scenarios, allowing them to be easily dropped in to any science fiction roleplaying campaign. As with all DayTrippers products, conversion […]
I’m hesitant to review this show, because anyone who tries to find it is in for a lot of frustration. It’s unbelievably obscure. I saw it on a Chicago television station when I was a kid. I spent years searching for it, and came up with nothing but a few tantalizing hints. I don’t remember […]
Damon Knight (1922-2002) was a major editor/anthologist and somewhat mid-ranking writer of science fiction from the 1950s to the 1980s. He edited the hybrid science fiction-fantasy digest magazine Worlds Beyond. He is also often viewed as the first real professional critic within science fiction. From 1950 to 1960, Damon Knight seemed to be everywhere reviewing […]
Used to I’d know if I was on the right track because I’d start getting a lot of flak. Not anymore! The low grade hostility and the suppression fire of snide remarks, sneering, and pedantic nitpicking just don’t cut it anymore. When it was just a collection of blog posts, the other side could still dismiss what […]
November 22 is a date that you generally hear about the death of President John F. Kennedy. You might read about C. S. Lewis dying on the same day once in a while. You never hear that Jack London died on November 22, 1916. This past week was the centenary of Jack London’s death. Jack […]
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Opens Noms and Awards to Public: or 2016, The Year Popular SF Recognition Became…Popular
Thursday , 14, April 2016 Uncategorized Leave a commentYet another means of recognizing achievement in Science Fiction has turned to the consumers of Science Fiction for insight. This time, it is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Founded in 1996, the Hall of Fame was relocated from the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas to […]
Military science fiction coalesced as a distinct form of fiction in the 1970s. Gordon R. Dickson showed the way with this “Dorsai” stories in Analog in the 1960s. Jerry Pournelle’s “CoDominion” stories in Analog and David Drake’s “Hammer’s Slammers” stories in Galaxy in the 1970s solidified a new genre. The first military science fiction anthology […]
SENSOR SWEEP: Joyful Abandon, the Notion of “The Crew”, Barely-Clad Damsels, and Sledgehammers to the Skull
Wednesday , 16, March 2016 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentComics (Comics Review) Dagar the Invincible: Tales of Sword and Sorcery: Volume 1 — “Dagar is something of a ‘kitchen sink’ book – as in ‘everything but the kitchen sink.’ In the nine issues collected in this volume, Dagar encounters wizards, dinosaurs, cave men, werewolves, vampires, dark gods, demons and pirates, along with assorted beautiful […]