It’s funny how my reading choices are more a train of thought than anything else. Take Clifford D. Simak. I mentioned him last week. As I was finishing up Red...
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I just finished reading Red Harvest. It’s the first novel by legendary pulp fictioneer Dashiell Hammett, though it was first published as a four-part series of...
When I saw that actor Rex Reason had died last month, the news brought back fond memories of watching This Island Earth as a teenager in the ’70s. Back then...
Back in the early spring, I had the great fortune of meeting Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, the granddaughter of Maj. Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson at a nearby...
I’ve titled this post “PulpFest 2014 wrap-up.” But I’m sure this won’t be the last post mentioning PulpFest 2014. A week ago yesterday, PulpFest 2014 was just...
Earlier this year, Steven Brower and Jim Simon published “Astounding, Mysterious, Weird & True, Vol. 1: The Pulp Art of Comic Book Artists,” a book that...
I have a confession to make: I only recently read “Tarzan of the Apes.” Believe me, I tried to read it several times — back in high school in the ’70s, again...
Humans discover that Earth in the future is populated by civilized apes. Sounds like “Planet of the Apes,” doesn’t it? Well, turn back the clock back 22 years...
It looks like him, but that’s not The Shadow I know. I’ve read the first eight issues of Dynamite‘s The Shadow comic book recently. Funny, but I was expecting...
I just finished Paul Malmont‘s The Astounding, the Amazing and the Unknown. I realize I’m a bit late on this topic; the book has been out since July. It...