The Sudden Curve

My new CON shirt

posted by Tom Novak who is a bricklayer not a doctor and was sporting this very t-shirt over the weekend at Chattacon 34. Stylish huh?.

John Carter of Mars

I first ran across science fiction when I was 11 and was lost to normality for the rest of my life.

The first thing I ever read was Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Fighting Man of Mars. That was it; I was gone forever.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who is a Fighting Man of the Ozarks.

Just realized that it was (Bill Haley and) THE COMETS

Of course - Comets!

posted by Tom Novak, who is smackin' hisself upside the sputnik

Caroline Munro in Star Crash (1978)

Speaking of Caroline Munro in The Spy Who Loved Me, she almost got the big break she deserved playing intergalactic bounty huntress Stella Star in an epic Retro Sci Fi film called Star Crash. But it wasn't a big-budgeted Hollywood or British film, it's Spaghetti Sci Fi.

Here is the wonderful Caroline Munro roaming the galaxy the way the galaxy ought to be roamed in the trailer for Star Crash ::

posted by Tom Novak, who laments, it's not bad -  but if only this had been made at Pinewood it would have been a classic.

The Frank Frazetta Artwork Gallery

Posted by Bob Wallace, who sez, oh yeah.

The Greatest ERB Novel Ever!!!

I ran across this novel when I was 11 and was lost to the normal world forever and was permanently changed and I don't mind at all BWAHAHAHA!!!

Posted by Bob Wallace, who doesn't mind that Martian women lay eggs cuz they sure are no chickens!

Why I Don't Need Drugs

 

Because this is what the inside of my head looks like, and where I live -- Barsoom!!

Posted by Bob Wallace, who got this from Wally Conger's blog.

Planets of Wonder

I don't have any use for dystopian science fiction. I can't stand William Gibson, for one thing, or any of the cyberpunk genre except for Richard K. Morgan and Neil Stephenson.

I don't have any use for any dystopian fiction at all. One only needs to read The Gulag Archipelago to be cured of that.

I do have a fondness for some of the old Space Opera stuff. The good stuff, I mean. I never could get through E.E. "Doc" Smith, for an example.

But some of the stuff is just great. Terry Carr's analogy, Planets of Wonder, is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Every story in it still has that Sense of Wonder about it.

Science fiction is supposed to be fun. That's why I like Edgar Rice Burroughs. Heck, I like Harry Potter. But if I want dystopia, I'll take a walk down the street.

Planets of Wonder: A Treasury of Space Opera.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who doesn't wear sunglasses at night.

Gordon Scott ~ RIP

Of all the on-screen Tarzans, Gordon Scott came the closest to accurately portraying Edgar Rice Burroughs' original character.  Scott's Tarzan is strong and smart, educated and articulate and he played him six times both on television and in the movies in the late '50's.  The best of all his films is Tarzan's Greatest Adventure - which is not available but you can see it from time to time on Turner Classic Movies.   

 Gordon Scott was eighty years old.

posted by Tom Novak who's watched a bunch of Tarzan movies over the years.