Tag Archives: Vintage SF

Vintage SF Month: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Posted on January 14, 2021 by H.P.

It is accepted that we live in an Early Dystopian State.  Claiming that we are merely decadent is what passes for optimism these days.  The real debate is not whether things are bad but over which dystopian novel best reflects … Continue reading →

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Vintage SF Month: Return to Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Posted on January 7, 2021 by H.P.

My journey through Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom novels (and my Vintage SF Month 2021) continues with Return to Mars.  Return to Mars collects Barsoom books 4-6: Thuvia, Maid of Mars; The Chessmen of Mars; and The Mastermind of Mars.  The … Continue reading →

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Vintage SF Month: Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp

Posted on December 31, 2020 by H.P.

Like New Year’s resolutions, Vintage Science Fiction Month ideally should be started in December.  First up for me is a review of L. Sprague de Camp’s Lest Darkness Fall. They had me at double-entry accounting.  Seriously.  The entire reason I … Continue reading →

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Throwback SF Thursday: Under the Moons of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Posted on July 9, 2020 by H.P.

It has been a spell since a Throwback SF Thursday post!  A while back I won a complete set of hardcover Barsoom/John Carter omnibuses through a giveaway hosted by the inestimable Bookstooge.  I have been using the Barsoom books as … Continue reading →

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Throwback SF: Jirel of Joiry by C.L. Moore

Posted on June 6, 2019 by H.P.

C.L. Moore’s collected Jirel of Joiry stories suffer from the same problem as her Northwest Smith stories.  Each is spurred by one incandescently brilliant story and one great pulp character—here, Black God’s Kiss and the titular Jirel of Joiry—and feature … Continue reading →

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SF: Who Fears the Devil? by Manly Wade Wellman

Posted on May 29, 2019 by H.P.

Originally posted on Hillbilly Highways:
I went to a panel at the WorldCon in San Antonio a few years back on Texas Pulp SF.  Apart from the 800-lb. gorilla in the room, Texans were grossly underrepresented in the pulps.  The…

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Throwback SF: The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard

Posted on May 23, 2019 by H.P.

The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane is my fifth of Del Rey’s eleven collected volumes of Robert E. Howard’s work.  I introduced myself to Howard with the three volumes of Conan stories and then read the collection of his horror … Continue reading →

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Throwback SF: Check out my Guest Post on Tolkien at Pages Unbound

Posted on April 4, 2019 by H.P.

I am pleased to announce that my guest post on my personal journey reading Tolkien has been posted at Pages Unbound for their Tolkien Reading Event.  Here is a taste. Tolkien chose to live his life as a certain kind … Continue reading →

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Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Fully Illustrated 70th Anniversary Edition of Leigh Brackett’s Stark Trilogy

Posted on April 3, 2019 by H.P.

One of my greatest discoveries since I started reading vintage SF was Leigh Brackett’s The Secret of the Sinharat and People of the Talisman.  I’m thrilled to help announce that Cirsova Publishing, the team behind Cirsova Magazine, is publishing a … Continue reading →

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Vintage Science Fiction Month: Northwest Smith by C.L. Moore

Posted on January 31, 2019 by H.P.

Hither came Northwest Smith, the earthman, sunburnt skin, paled-eyed, in spaceman’s leathers, a pirate, a smuggler, a gunslinger, facing life and death with an equal grin, to tread the back-alley bars and lost ruins of the solar system heatgun in … Continue reading →

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