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AMAZING, the first all-sf magazine: some of the best covers, for each editor:
Most images courtesy of Galactic Centraland ISFDb.1928: Editor: Hugo Gernsback; cover artist: Frank R. Paul: Editor: T. O'Conor Sloane; cover artist: A. Sigmond:1942: Editor: Raymond A. Palmer; cover...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
ThérèseBelow, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links...as always, thanks to all the contributors and to all you readers for your...
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Patti Abbott: Tuesday Night Music; Friday Night Music; Saturday Night MusicSean Coleman: Beware of Mr. BakerBill Crider: Song of the DayLee Hartsfeld: Sunday Morning ShellacJerry House: Jean Redpath;...
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FFB: Some key (and fat) fantasy-fiction anthologies: THE BOOK OF FANTASY...
If one was to want to know what fantasy fiction was about, the books detailed below would be an excellent start; even in their individual and certainly collective vastness, they wouldn't be a...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
"The Tunnel Under the World"This week's entry is dedicated to the memory of Frederik Pohl, who passed yesterday. Truly one of the most influential and multifarious of writers and editors (among other...
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FFB: The critical legacy of the Futurians...Frederik Pohl and his peers...
A revisit with this brief survey, now that we've lost one of the last surviving Futurians, Frederik Pohl.Frederik Pohl is credited with getting it all going, sort of. He was the young editor of...
View ArticleTuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V:a few early links
This week's special editorial and special pleading:I will try to gather the usual suspects (which is to say, valued contributors and valiant fellow-travelers) to this weekly gathering of links to...
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FFB: F&SF: A 30 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE, edited by Edward Ferman; BOUCHER'S...
The return of two older reviews...because I'm tied up with some tough personal business, but since I was at the computer anyway...repackages are quick:From ISFDb (and I'm cheating here, listing the...
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Delayed again: Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
Terribly sorry, folks, but the family crises are not quite done (they won't be entirely "done" for some time) and the work and other delays that they have forced have to take first precedence at the...
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BORGEN: Season Three begins in the US (and high time)
The best tv political drama in Europe, and perhaps the world? Borgen (Danish for "castle" and a reference to the parliamentary building) might as well be, if it isn't...certainly the only thing in its...
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Saturday Music Club on Wednesday: Vocal Neighborhoods Revisited: Ken Nordine,...
My friend Laura has just found a recent posting of Halim El-Dabh's "Leiyla and the Poet": Thursday, March 31, 2011March "Forgotten" Music: Vocal Neighborhoods: Ken Nordine, Urszula Dudziak, David...
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FFB: Horrors: Old and Almost New: HAUNTINGS edited by Henry Mazzeo; THE NEW...
Friday's "Forgotten" Books: HAUNTINGS: STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL, edited by Henry Mazzeo (Doubleday 1968) Contents, all illustrated by Edward Gorey:Introduction: The Castle of Terror by Henry Mazzeo...
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FFB: On newsstands 35 years ago, just before Hallowe'en...and some books...
As November 1978 approached, it was a time of changes in my new-found...well, year-old...passion for fiction magazines. I started branching out, picking up my first issues of The Atlantic (with the...
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FFB redux: Katha Pollitt: LEARNING TO DRIVE (2007); Erica Jong: SEDUCING THE...
Excellent comments on this 2010 entry here.So...two memoirs by two of our poets...one better known for her political essays, the other for her sexually liberationist novels. One a collection of essays,...
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FFB redux: Richard Lupoff, ed. WHAT IF? (Vols. 1-3); Avram Davidson, MASTERS...
The Hugo Awards, of course, are (mostly) literary awards voted on by (shrinking fractions of the) membership of the WorldCons, the World SF Conventions held annually, most often but not always in the...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and Other A/V: took long...
Night TideA belated gathering of the last two months of Tuesday's Overlooked A/V, from all the fine contributors to this usually weekly exercise. Thanks to all contributors, and all you readers, for...
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FFB: LEW ARCHER; PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR by Ross Macdonald (Detective Book Club,...
I started with Ross Macdonald with a story or so in one or another of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents: anthologies, and eventually went onto what many of his readers might suggest was the wrong starting...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links: continuing catch-up...
Dorothy DandridgeBack into gathering up the current and recently "missed" reviews of the films at the links below, including duel reviews of The Outlaw and Creature with the Atom Brain...and perhaps...
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FFB: nonfiction about horror fiction and drama: FACES OF FEAR: Interviews by...
Three volumes published during the US "horror boom" of the 1980s and earliest '90s...two rather heavily overlapping sets of interviews with writers of horror prose (and, for the most part, also horror...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
Ann Blyth and Glenn StrangeThis week's selections for (usually) unfairly overlooked or obscure audio/visual presentations, including stage drama (and puppetry), museum shows and small conventions, at...
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