While reading through Thirty-Five Years of the Jack Williamson Lectureship (Haffner Press, 2011) recently, this quote by the late author/professor himself jumped out at...
National Public Radio gave a nod to the fiction of the pulp magazines during Monday’s Three Books… segment on “Morning Edition.” Author/editor...
For some, George Pal‘s 1975 Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze may hold a few fond memories of seeing the pulp hero on the silver screen for the first time. But those...
It’s a good thing this story from the New York Times Sunday Magazine (dated March 26, 1911) didn’t pan out, or where would the pulps be? No Lovecraft, Clark...
It’s early summer. Just a few months ago, the U.S. was pulled into World War II. But for now, things really aren’t that much different than last summer. You...
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 paperbacks are...
We all know how the pulp magazines figure into the history of science fiction, right? Well, maybe not everyone. While science fiction didn’t start out in the...
Doc Con XIII unofficially begins Friday evening, Nov. 12, at Courtney Rogers‘ house. We’ll head to dinner at 6 p.m., then return to Courtney’s house...
I’d always wondered what sort of guidance the pulp publishers provided to prospective fictioneers back in the day. Then one day, I noticed on eBay a collection of...
Twenty-five years ago Sept. 30, Doc Savage returned to the airwaves for 13 weeks for the first time since the 1930s — and then he was gone again. I remember hearing...