While reading through Thirty-Five Years of the Jack Williamson Lectureship (Haffner Press, 2011) recently, this quote by the late author/professor himself...
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Fred Pfeiffer gets no respect (to paraphrase a catch-line from the late comedian Rodney Dangerfield). The 13 covers he painted for the Bantam Doc Savage...
In sort of a backwards move, fictioneer Laurence Donovan’s first known piece of fiction appeared in a “slick” magazine about three years before his next known...
Walker Martin on the PulpMags group at Yahoo posted a notice that pulp artist Ernest Chiriacka died Tuesday, April 27, 2010. “Darcy,” as Chiriacka was known...
The other day Doc Mystery posted a blog item about someone’s elaborate gaming basement, and that got me wondering, “Who has a pulp lair?”
Phil Klass, who wrote under the name William Tenn, died Sunday, Feb. 7. He was 89.
On a sad note, Philip José Farmer died in his sleep this morning, his official Web site reports. For many of us, Farmer’s books, Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic...
I’m remiss in never mentioning the passing of science fiction great Arthur C. Clarke earlier this year. I think of him mostly for his later book work...
Howard Hopkins posted this item on the GoldenPerils group at Yahoo last night:
Over at his Rough Edges blog, writer James Reasoner mentions that he’s planning to head to Cross Plains, Texas, for Saturday’s birthday celebration for pulp...