Inoculate Against the Lurids: Language Is A Virus
I’m pleased to be participating at Amazing Stories by writing about pulps. But before jumping feet first into that discussion, it’s best to issue a warning: It’s always important for all participants...
View ArticleCrackpots, Conspiracies, UFOs and Air War
I have mentioned elsewhere that my participating as a contributor to the new Amazing Stories feels like one of those Six Degrees of Separation experiences. Once upon a time I worked for a technical...
View ArticleMangling the works of Jules Verne
In a recent post about Jules Verne and his translators for English editions, I included a few examples of how those translators mangled Verne’s stories, so that for generations his authorial abilities...
View ArticleJules Verne and Amazing Stories
As a writer whose work exerted a mighty influence on science fiction, it is entirely appropriate that Jules Verne and Amazing Stories had a tight relationship.That relationship began, of course, 21...
View ArticleConventional Wisdom
Any hobby worth its weight in storage space should have a convention.For example, comic book fans have gathered famously during the years in ever-larger facilities with agendas that have expanded to...
View Article1933
P.J. Farmer, Grand Master Award winner in 2000, launched a popular string of novels and essays postulating that a meteorite that landed in Wold Newton, England, in 1795 radiated a band of nearby...
View Article21st Century Pulp Artist
Normally in this space I rattle on about pulp magazines. Today we’ll look at a different type of periodical: comic books.Or, if you will, graphic narratives.More specifically, we’ll examine the work of...
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