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
Howard purists may hate every word I am about to say. While I will always agree that Robert E. Howard’s stories were the best of the Conan canon (he wrote some potboilers too), I do have some favs amongst the Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp pastiches. One such Read More
The Savage Sword of Conan served up a monthly dose of Conan the Cimmerian along with secondary tales of Robert E. Howard’s other characters such as Solomon Kane, King Kull and Bran Mak Morn, plus the Howard/Roy Thomas amalgam Red Sonja. In the 235 issues, from August 1974 to July Read More
The fourth issue of DARK WORLDS QUARTERLY is here! It has been a very long and hard winter and we’ve been doing some much needed hibernating. We’re very much awake now for Spring of 2018, and we managed to give the old Quarterly a bit of a new look! Plus Read More
The term “Space Opera”, used to define a certain branch of Science Fiction, was coined by Wilson Tucker in 1941. It was not meant to be a compliment. The term “Soap Opera” has found its way into the larger public domain of common phrases, but it too came from this Read More
I think all Doc Savage fans dream of becoming Kenneth Robeson some day. Or you can be like Jack Mackenzie and try to create a Pulp character with all the fun of Doc Savage but with a more modern sensibility. And he succeeds in his upcoming book, Wild Incorporated. The Read More
The premiere issue of DARK WORLDS QUARTERLY is here! Our first issue features an interview with DONALD F. GLUT about his Doctor Spektor character that he created for Gold Key comics. Canadian Voices in Science Fiction – Just in time for Canada 150, we talk to Canadian science fiction readers Read More