Duane Spurlock
21st 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,...
1933
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...
Conventional 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...
Jules 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...
Mangling 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...
Crackpots, 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...
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...