Archive for October, 2008

True nature of science fiction and fantasy books revealed through …

Posted by admin on 21st October , 2008

Let me be the first pedant to say that these all (but one) seem to be fantasy books, not science fiction . Chalk and cheese to some readers. As an author of similar I’d hope you might be a bit more discriminating than 100% of the …

Lost Art of the Pulps — Science Fiction

Posted by editor on 2nd October , 2008

American publishing has taken many turns in the last 200 years. One of the best periods for American writers and artists was the era of pulp magazines, those inexpensive magazines on cheap wood pulp paper that flourished from about 1920 to 1950, when the new infant television and mass market paperbacks finally froze them out. There were literally hundreds of pulps coming out weekly or monthly, selling for 10 cents or less, then 15 cents, and finally 25 cents each. It was a good time for …