Last month, I took a look at a pair of sf stories from the 1940s that featured mutants. The premise of the post being that the X-Men weren’t the first...
Category - Pulps
I was reading a recap of “The Inside Man,” last week’s episode of TV’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., over at the website Vox, and was struck...
Updated: April 28, 2016. The first pulp show of the year is less than two weeks away. Pulp AdventureCon kicks things off on Saturday, Feb. 20, in Fort...
Jon Tuska, an anthologist and historian of the pulp western, died Jan. 18, 2016, at his home in Portland, Ore., after a brief battle with cancer. He was 73.
George Lucas has made it very clear that the Star Wars series was heavily influenced by films of the 1930s and ’40s. But I don’t recall ever seeing...
2016 marks the 75th anniversary of the 1941 World Science Fiction Convention. And that means it’s time for a new round of Retrospective Hugo Awards. If...
Here on the last day of 2015, I thought I would take a moment and look back at the year in blogging here at ThePulp.Net, and a brief look foward at...
The news that actor Rex Reason died last month brought back fond memories of watching This Island Earth as a teenager in the ’70s. Back then, late nights...
Jon Arfstrom, likely the last surviving artist for the original Weird Tales, died Wednesday, Dec. 2. He was 87. Arfstrom got his start with fantasy...
The Star Wars series returns to the silver screens just a couple of weeks from now with Star Wars, Episode VII: The Force Awakens, and with it a nearly 90-year...