During the “classic” period of science-fiction, a popular sub-genre was the “space opera.” These stories were usually melodramas of epic heroes and villains who fought each other in outer space, usually across planets, solar...
Archive - May 2015
Well, another Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention for 2015 has come and gone, and with it we get another convention program book: Windy City Pulp Stories #15. This...
The idea that the Earth is a hollow sphere is one that has been tossed around in esoteric circles, and has been the basis of some science-fiction tales. One early...
I have previously posted about the writing team of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. They have the long-running Pendergast series which I’ve reviewed, the more...
Arthur J. Burks (1898-1974) was a very prolific pulp author who is generally overlooked today. I think this was due to him working in a wide range of genres (science...
An interesting action series I got into is the Jack Reacher series. While some may know of the series thanks to the recent Tom Cruise movie, I was reading it a little...
Nick Carter is a literary character which has been around a long time, was enormously popular during his time, but is today largely forgotten. He has appeared in a large...
During the mid-’80s, the comic book industry went through a period where a large number of new comic books came out that glutted the market. A lot of these were black...