Well, the recent announcement by Sony Pictures that Sam Raimi has purchased the movie rights to a platoon of Street & Smith pulp characters has sparked a...
Category - Pulps
I thought I would pass along this posting from Tahir Bhatti about a potential Doc Savage movie: It has been 11 months since I last made contact with Jerry, a...
I’ve recently been thinking about the popularity of pulp characters. Not just popularity among pulp fans, but their popularity among the general public. Could...
Okay, after my first venture into the world of Captain Future — four novels so far – I’m marginally entertained. Writer Edmond Hamilton has a great imagination...
Freezing out by Pluto, Roasting near the sun, Drenched by the rains of Saturn’s plains, It’s all a space-man’s fun! Tramping old Mars’ deserts, Or sailing...
You find them in movies, television, comics and novels. But are there “inside references” in the pulps?
Today – five years after the appalling attacks of Sept. 11 – it’s hard not to think of terrorism. Over the past few days, the idea of terrorism as depicted in...
There’s been some ongoing discussions in the various newsgroups about Will Murray’s humorous essay, “Stop Me from Reading Another Spider,” which is posted on...
Belated birthday wishes to author Ray Bradbury. He turned 86 on Tuesday. Inspired by the pulps, Bradbury took up writing and published his first for-pay story...
I’ve been plowing through Doc Savage novels recently, prepping for one of the highlights of the annual Arizona DocCon, the trivia quiz. Among the stack were a...