A couple of subgenres of science fiction I’ve had an interest in are utopian fantasies and hollow earth stories. The first are usually about some society that is...
Awesome Tales #6 (Fall 2017) is now out from Bold Venture Press and Black Cat Media. This issue’s theme is crime, and the cover feature this issue is the Domino Lady...
Solar Pons is popular pastiche of Sherlock Holmes that was created by August Derleth and continued by Basil Copper (1924-2013). I previously posted on him, and at the...
It is interesting that while many artists and writers have children, few of those children follow in their footsteps. There have been a few comic strips continued by the...
I have previously posted about the Vic Challenger series, in particular numbers 1, 2, and 5. Set in the 1920s, the series stars young Victoria Custer who discovers she...
Mention the name The Spider and most pulp fans will recall the popular and long-running hero pulp published by Popular Publications. But while the most popular character...
I finally got the most recent Lazarus Gray book, volume seven, from Barry Reese. Unlike past books, this one is a novel. And it’s a big event, as it brings together all...
Edgar Rice Burroughs is best known for Tarzan, and probably also his Mars novels with John Carter and others. But he set stories in a variety of locations including the...
Scientists writing science fiction has been going on so since the genre started. But in the early years, some chose to use pseudonyms. One of the first was mathematician...
I have previously posted on a new (to me) occult detective I discovered: Gees, real name Gregory George Gordon Green. Created by British author and editor Charles Henry...