DEBT’S HONOR by Jack Mackenzie

September 12, 2019 mdjackson 0

PIRATES, ALIENS, BUREAUCRATS – WHO CAN YOU TRUST? Korax is a colony world beset by problems. Pirates have targeted the world for plunder, a race of wandering alien nomads have made themselves at home and the colony’s new governor seems intent on making enemies of just about everyone. Jefferson Odett Read More

THE PARADIGM TRAP by Jack Mackenzie

September 5, 2019 mdjackson 0

SOME ENEMIES DO NOT ACCEPT DEFEAT The long conflict between humanity and the Kreoch Empire is over. Humanity has won. The Fleet is victorious. Everything has changed. Kent McLennan commands the Fleet ship Meritorious on a mission to accept the Kreoch surrender. But the Kreoch are not taking defeat so Read More

THE MASK OF ETERNITY by Jack Mackenzie

August 29, 2019 mdjackson 0

A FORGOTTEN WORLD, A POWERFUL ARTIFACT AND A GALAXY ON THE BRINK OF WAR Solis DeLacey, captain of the ACSC ship BOSTON, has been sent to a newly discovered world rich in natural resources. But one ship and her crew has already gone missing while surveying the planet and the Read More

Science Fiction Themes: What Has Changed?

October 31, 2018 GW Thomas 0

One of the darlings of the Gernsback magazines was author, Clare Winger Harris (1891-1968). She may be the first official “fan-girl” of that era. (C. L. Moore was the darling of Weird Tales but SF fans often ignored that magazine to their own peril.) Harris wrote eleven stories beginning with Read More

The Strange Moon Saga of Edgar Rice Burroughs by D. K. Latta

October 27, 2018 GW Thomas 1

American writer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was a prolific creator of pulp and adventure stories. Burroughs wrote — as he himself would admit — for the money, but also had a versatile (and sometimes bizarre!) imagination, and he tried his hand at everything from historical fiction (The Outlaw of Torn) to Read More

Dark Worlds Magazine

October 24, 2018 mdjackson 0

Dark Worlds Magazine was an effort to recapture the excitement of the old days of the pulp magazines. Magazines like Amazing Stories and Astounding Science Fiction and Weird Tales. It was also an experiement in producing a magazine in the new print-on-demand marketplace. Ultimately it was an experiment that failed. Myself and former Amazing Stories blogger G. Read More

Game of Emmys: The 2018 Emmy Awards

September 17, 2018 Jack Mackenzie 0

UPDATE: Congratulations to Peter Dinklage for his win for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series, to Black Mirror: USS Callister for winning best TV Movie, to Thandie Newton for Best Actress in a Limited Series for Westworld and, of course, a big congratulations to Game of Thrones for winning the Read More

The 2018 Hugo Award Winners

August 20, 2018 mdjackson 0

The 76th Annual World Science Fiction Convention was held over the weekend in San Jose, California. During the convention the coveted (and controversial) Hugo Awards were given out. To add some perspective to this year’s competition, these awards were decided on by a mere 1813 valid nominating ballots. In order to Read More

You Don’t Know Dick

August 5, 2018 mdjackson 0

Phillip Kindred Dick was an unusual man. He was a science fiction writer, which (in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s at least) makes him unusual. He was also addicted to amphetamines, had several mental breakdowns and, at one point, was convinced that he had been taken over by the Read More

We’re all Ed Wood Now

July 31, 2018 mdjackson 0

My wife and I recently purchased a big screen smart tv. What makes it so smart is beyond me, but with it we can watch Netflix and Youtube videos. Well, with Youtube videos streaming across my big screen, what else would I watch but Star Trek fan films? I spent Read More

Retro Review: STARCRASH

July 26, 2018 mdjackson 0

Italy has produced some of the most talented film directors. Federicco Fellini, Luchino Visconti, and Sergio Leone are all masters of their crafts and have produced some of the finest films the world has ever seen. …and then there’s Luigi Cozzi. Luigi Cozzi was born in Busto Arsizio in Italy Read More

MEGA ACTION FIGURES!

July 24, 2018 mdjackson 0

With the welcome news recently that MEGO, the famed toymaker, which hit its peak in the mid 1970s with popular figures and toys from Star Trek and other TV and film franchises, is returning after going out of business in 1983, we present this loving look at the serious business of Action Read More

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