Wanderings

Anything you dream is fiction,
and anything you accomplish is science,
the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
- Ray Bradbury
October 3rd, 2011

Tour-ganic Rocks the Hay House

We became reacquainted with David Brown after the death of our old friend Marjorie Brown. David lives at a place called Hay House, a Buddhist retreat in Connecticut.

Erica just sent me this poster about a rock concert that they are having there this Sunday. I would really like to go, but it is a two hour hike. We’ll see how the weather is.

Hay House Online: Tour-ganic Rocks the Hay House.






October 3rd, 2011

Amazing Stories

Steve Davidson has somehow come into ownership of one of the most storied titles in Science Fiction. Amazing Stories, the magazine started in 1926 by the man who invented the word Science Fiction, is now the sole property of Steve. He was able to acquire the trademark by luck and sheer balls. Hugo Gernsback would be proud.

He plans to restart the zine and is now looking for help in the form of editors, slush readers and gophers of all sorts. I, for one, inspired to write an old style pulp story replete with bug eyed aliens and scantily clad girls with ray guns.

I have talked with Steve a few times and we have pretty much the same taste in Golden age Science Fiction. (I am working my way through A Bertram Chandler’s books because Steve is such a fan.)

By a weird coincidence, I had registered AmazingStories.com a few years ago when I was editing a SF magazine (Astounding Tales). I let it go because I thought that the trademark owners would never let me use it.

Amazing Stories Trademark Granted – Working on Resurrecting the Mag | The Crotchety Old Fan.