During his fifty-year career, Poul Anderson wrote numerous classics—major and minor—that fans of SFF should be thankful for. In my opinion, Poul is quite possibly the greatest science fiction author to ever pound a keyboard. He is also one of the finest fantasy authors to ever spin a yarn.
Read MoreThis week: Barsoom, Robert E. Howard, Edmond Hamilton, Lord Dunsany, Dune, and more.
Read MoreTarzan and the Jewels of Opar created the template for the era of 'classic' Tarzan novels to come. Its publication was momentous at the time and—many decades later—that novel was my real intro to the world of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs and much, much more.
Read MoreTeel James Glenn's story begins on that fateful day. What if Robert E. Howard had chosen to live? With nothing left to keep him in Cross Plains, Howard decides to go see the world he has written about but never seen.
Read MoreThis week: Clark Ashton Smith, Hawk the Slayer, Dune, Hyperion, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Planet Stories, berserkers, and more.
Read MoreToday marks the seventy-fifth birthday of Ian Miller. While not a marquee name here in the States, I guarantee that many readers of the DMR Blog have seen his artwork over the years. Intricate, grotesque and very recognizable, Ian’s style is uniquely his own.
Read MoreJack Williamson died on this date in 2006. He started out his career being praised by the likes of A. Merritt and Isaac Asimov. By the time his life ended, Williamson was known as the 'Dean of Science Fiction' with Hugos and Nebulas on his wall. His works of science fiction and fantasy remain classics to this day.
Read MoreThis week: Robert E. Howard and C.L. Moore, The Spine of Night, Tales from the Magician’s Skull, Karl Edward Wagner, Ray Bradbury, Robin Hood, and more.
Read MoreP. Craig Russell is an artist with a nearly half-century career in comics. His renditions of Killraven, Elric, Doctor Strange and Sandman are considered iconic, if not definitive. Russell has collaborated with the likes of Roy Thomas, Neil Gaiman and Michael Moorcock during his illustrious career.
Read MoreToday marked the anniversary of the passing of Donald A. Wollheim. Today also marks—perhaps exactly, perhaps within a few weeks at most—the founding of DAW Books by Wollheim in 1971. Throughout the 1970s and well into the 1980s, DAW Books kept the pulp aesthetic alive, publishing far more sword-and-sorcery and sword-and-planet than its competitors.
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