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The Two Ozymandiases (and Then Some)
I quoted Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias" when I wrote in July. What I found in my research is that there are actually two Ozymandiases. First is Shelley's version:Ozymandias (1818)by Percy Bysshe Shelley...
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Summer Reading List No. 1-The Listeners by James E. Gunn
Four years ago, on the day after Flying Saucer Day, I wrote about James E. Gunn and his novelette "The Listeners," originally in Galaxy Magazine in September 1968. Since then I have looked for the book...
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Summer Reading List No. 2-Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
I wrote recently of Kate Wilhelm (1928-2018). I had never read anything by her, but in reading about her, I became intrigued. So I looked on my shelf and found Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang...
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Summer Reading List No. 3-The Status Civilization by Robert Scheckley
My Internet was out for fourteen days. No, I don't live in Afghanistan. I live in a twenty-first century Third World-country called the United States. Anyway, I'm back, writing again about Utopia and...
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Again, After a Break . . .
My Internet went out again and is now back again. I feel like the man in the movie who notices little things here and there, things that aren't quite right but also don't add up just yet. After a while...
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Summer Reading List No. 4-The Engines of the Night by Barry N. Malzberg
I had planned on finishing this series before the end of summer. My Internet non-provider had other plans though. Call it (this series) now obsolete. But maybe not quite, for it will end with books by...
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Summer Reading List No. 5-Strange Gods, edited by Roger Elwood
Strange Gods is an anthology of science fiction stories about religion. The editor was Roger Elwood (1943-2007). The cover artist was Charles Moll, about whom it's hard to find much of anything on the...
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Summer Reading List No. 6-Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson
The club story is not really a genre but a type. There are club stories in science fiction and fantasy, but they might just as easily be in any genre. Think of "The World of Commander McBragg" on one...
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Brandon Fleming (1889-1970)
Charles Brandon Raincock FlemingJournalist, Author, Playwright, Screenwriter, ProducerBorn April 27, 1889, Streatham, Surrey, EnglandDied October 1970, Kensington, Greater London, EnglandCharles...
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Summer Reading List No. 7-Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein
Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein was published in book form and serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, both in the same year, 1963. Although the decade was still young, Glory Road...
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Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein, Part Two
Glory Road was published in 1963, halfway through Robert A. Heinlein's career as a professional author. He was fifty-six years old when Glory Road came out. By then, at least two golden ages had gotten...
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Summer Reading List No. 8-Secret of the Lost Race by Andre Norton
I began reading Secret of the Lost Race by Andre Norton (1959; Ace Books, 1972) late in summer and finished it the day after the equinox. It was originally published as half of an Ace Double with a...
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Summer Reading List No. 9-The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs was first published as a five-part serial in Argosy All-Story Weekly, from May 5 to June 2, 1923. I have the Ace paperback edition from 1962 with cover art by Roy...
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Summer Reading List No. 10-The Moon Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Ace Books reprinted The Moon Maid, the first book in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Moon trilogy, in 1962. The second and third books were combined into a single edition entitled The Moon Men, also issued by...
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The Moon Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs-Part Two
The subject is Edgar Rice Burroughs' Moon trilogy:Julian 5th and his crew land on the Moon in 2026. They stay for ten years, returning to Earth in 2036. Later that year, Julian 6th, son of Julian 5th...
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Summer Reading List No. 11-The Red Hawk by Edgar Rice Burroughs
"The Red Hawk" is a short sequel to "The Moon Men" and wraps up Edgar Rice Burroughs' Moon trilogy. It was originally published in Argosy All-Story Weekly as a three-part serial from September 5 to...
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Summer Reading List No. 12-Maza of the Moon by Otis Adelbert Kline
Maza of the Moon by Otis Adelbert Kline was first published as a four-part serial in Argosy, from December 21, 1929, to January 11, 1930, just as the nation was entering its first few months of a great...
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The Internet American Indian Science Fiction Database
I have been writing about Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), most recently about his Moon trilogy. The last book in his trilogy is "The Red Hawk," a novella set in the far future and the American West....
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