During the “classic” period of science-fiction, a popular sub-genre was the “space opera.” These stories were usually melodramas of...
Category - Pulps
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We sometimes forget that pulp fiction didn’t only exist in the U.S. Pulp fiction and its equivalents existed in other countries in the early 20th century...
As a kid, one of the first science-fiction authors I got into was Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the first works by him I read was his series about Mars, or...
In 2011 Tommy Hancock‘s Pro Se Press started their most interesting effort to bring back a feature of the original, classic pulps: of being published...