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sSensor Sweep: CAS, REH, and HPL; Roger Zelazny; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Medieval Tales
Monday , 8, October 2018 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsFiction (DMR Books): Today would be the one hundred and fourth birthday of Donald A. Wollheim. When it comes to a debate regarding which editor had the greatest overall impact on the field of science fiction, Wollheim often gets shortchanged–in my opinion–in favor of Hugo Gernsback and/or John W. Campbell. However, that neglect pales in comparison to the […]
Sensor Sweep: Grimdark, Ray Harryhausen, Pathfinder, Tim Willocks
Monday , 1, October 2018 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsFiction (Rogue Blades): Cropley’s and Bridgland’s article in a recent issue of Grimdark Magazine got me thinking about what it is that keeps me from buying into the whole grimdark thing. I mean, I think there’s a place for it in fantasy, but it’s neither anything special or particularly new. The way I see it, grimdark […]
Sensor Sweep: Tower of the Elephant, Leigh Brackett, Kenneth Morris, D&D Survey
Monday , 24, September 2018 Sensor Sweep 4 CommentsWriters (Tellers of Weird Tales): Harold S. Farnese didn’t write any stories, poems, or articles for Weird Tales, nor was he a cover artist or illustrator. His eight letters published in “The Eyrie,” the letters column of Weird Tales, failed to land him in the top twenty contributors in that category. You might say that […]
Sensor Sweep: Fake Movie Wisdom, Dashiell Hammett, Louis L’amour, Dragoncon
Monday , 17, September 2018 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsPulps (Pulp Flakes): When Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic in 1927 the publishers rushed into print with tales of flying adventures. Jack Kelly, publisher of Fiction House which included such pulps as Lariat, Action Stories and Northwest Stories, launched Air Stories and Wings in such a hurry that he wired me to write a novelet […]
Sensor Sweep: Joe Jusko, Witch World, Battlefleet
Monday , 10, September 2018 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsIllustration (Scoop): Beginning in September, Joe Jusko, in conjunction with ERB, Inc. will be creating brand new cover art and frontispieces for every Edgar Rice Burroughs novel (over 80, in total), forming the first completely unified Burroughs library by one artist. The pantheon of incredible talent who have loaned their vision to cover ERB’s works […]
Sensor Sweep: Twilight Echoes, Fredric Brown, Shrunken Heads!
Monday , 3, September 2018 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentMagazines (Razored Zen): Twilight Echoes #1 So, let me drop this casually on you. I’m in a magazine with Robert E. Howard. You might respond with, “Robert E. Howard died quite a long time ago.” Yes. Yes, he did. But his stories live on. And one of his living stories has just been reprinted in […]
Sensor Sweep: Pre-Tolkien Challenge, Pathfinder, A. Merritt,
Monday , 27, August 2018 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsFiction (Jeffro’s Space Gaming Blog): Tolkien was ahead of his time. And that’s precisely what I object to about him. And you know it’s real. People experience a culture shock when they go look up his forgotten contemporaries that they don’t with his work. You can see it, too, in where people struggle with him. […]
Sensor Sweep: Continental Op, Barnes & Noble, Genre Sales, Magician’s Skull
Thursday , 23, August 2018 Sensor Sweep 3 CommentsFiction (Austin Chronicle): In the late 1930s, when the fangs of fascism were getting ready to gobble up Europe, America saw its destiny to be the tough guy on the international beat, and a handful of smart left-wingers created one of the most enduring literary protagonists of modern times, the hard-boiled detective. Writers (Don Herron): […]
Sensor Sweep: REH Guide, The High Crusade, Pulp Revolution, D&D, King Kong
Monday , 23, July 2018 Sensor Sweep 8 CommentsWriters (Legends of Men): As you know by now I’m a huge fan of the Conan stories, but I’m also a huge fan of Howard’s other creations, even his poetry. Last June I attended Robert E. Howard Days, a gathering of Howard scholars and fans to celebrate the life and works of Robert E. Howard. While […]
Sensor Sweep: Keys to Other Doors, Xenophile, Skylark of Space, Roger Zelazny
Monday , 16, July 2018 Sensor Sweep 2 CommentsPulps (The Pulp Net): When I was first involved in the pulp fandom world in the late ’90s, I saw ads for Keys to Other Doors. Subtitled “some lists for a pulp collector’s notebook,” it was put together by John DeWalt. There were at least two versions, a first version in 1995 with a revised […]
Sensor Sweep: Creeps by Night, Grip, Gatekeeping, The Royal Netherlands Indies Army
Monday , 9, July 2018 Sensor Sweep 4 CommentsBooks (Don Herron): You may not know, but way back in 1931, the up-and-coming Wisconsin writer August Derleth teamed up with the newly famous detective novelist Dashiell Hammett to edit a collection of supernatural horror fiction titled Creeps by Night: Chills and Thrills. Over the next forty years, Derleth would become one of the most […]
Sensor Sweep: Ray Capella, Queen of Communist Cannibals, H. Rider Haggard
Monday , 2, July 2018 Sensor Sweep 4 CommentsWriters (Pulp Hermit): Ray Capella- From Alhambra, California, Ray was a noted illustrator for a number of SF & Fantasy journals before coming over to the Fading Shadows magazines. He contributed a lot of interior and cover art for our SF titles, as well as illustrating heroic characters like Doc Savage and The Shadow. But […]