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sI have written on Poul Anderson’s sword & pseudo-science stories in the pulp magazine Planet Stories. At the same time, Anderson had an historical in the pages of the pulp Adventure. “Son of the Sword” appeared in the January 1952 issue of Adventure. Anderson was placing stories with Popular Publications’ Super Science Stories. Ejler G. […]
Poul Anderson- Hypothetical Collections and Reprints: Part II
Sunday , 21, June 2020 Uncategorized 3 CommentsLast week, I discussed collecting Poul Anderson’s sword and science stories into a hypothetical mass market paperback collection. There are two other categories: historical and fantasy to be covered. Historicals: Unnatural Enemies The Ultimate Dinosaur 1992 The Long Remembering F&SF […]
Poul Anderson- Hypothetical Collections and Reprints: Part 1
Sunday , 14, June 2020 Uncategorized 3 CommentsI listed Poul Anderson’s more swashbuckling and adventurous fiction with the shared item of characters using swords. How would an editor package these stories? DMR Books just reprinted three stories. I love DMR Books as it provides a service the Big Five publishing conglomerates do not. Small press publications have limitations in size and budget. […]
There are some Poul Anderson stories never reprinted in book form. Last week, I posted about the new collection Swordsmen from the Star from DMR Books collecting three of Poul Anderson’s swashbuckling sword-and- super-science stories from Planet Stories. I began working on a post on various stories by Poul Anderson and how to fit them […]
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 […]
The Pulp Swordsmen: Corun of Conahur
Sunday , 13, May 2018 Pulp Swordsmen, Short Fiction 18 CommentsSword and sorcery fiction was a casualty in the pages of Weird Tales magazine when it went bimonthly and had a new editor in 1940. The sub-genre did live on with some entries in Unknown/Unknown Worlds. Less known are some stories that showed up in Fantastic Adventures and Planet Stories. The stories that appeared in […]
Sensor Sweep: Dungeon Dwellers, Shambleau, Dumb Barbarians
Monday , 4, December 2017 Sensor Sweep 6 CommentsRPG (Blackgate.com): I’m still unpacking the boxes I brought home from the Fall 2017 Games Plus auction. There’s so many SF and fantasy board games being published these days that it’s impossible to keep up. But you know, I do my best. A week after the auction, I dropped by Games Plus in Mount Prospect […]