I was checking through old magazines at an antique store in Cold Springs, NY, looking for old SF magazines, when a cover caught my eye. It read Mr. Smith Goes to Venus. The date was March, 1950. It was Coronet Magazine, which was a cheaper simpler version of the Saturday Evening Post or Readers Digest. […]
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: December 2005
More Christmas Cats
Monday, December 26, 2005
I thought that I might show you some of the cat pictures that I took this year. I did not want this blog to degrade into a cute cat pictures gallery, but that ship has sailed. Click on images to get a larger version.This is Blue. He is a stray that hung around all spring […]
Christmas Day
Sunday, December 25, 2005
I spent this afternoon with my sister-in-law, Justine. THANKS JUSTINE! We went out for dinner at the New York Athletic Club down on Central Park South. Since Justine is one of the three people who read my blog, I have to get the pictures up so she could see. Click on each image to see […]
Amazing Heroes III
Friday, December 23, 2005
Amazing Heroes III is now available through LuLu.com. It has one of my stories in it. I am worried that the price, $15 plus shipping, is prohibitive. POD publishing will not be really successful until the prices come down.
Lionel Fanthorpe
Friday, December 23, 2005
When I google, I often come across the totally unexpected. This is the page of a British writer, Lionel Fanthorpe. He wrote over 180 very bad novels in the 50s and 60s. During one period he averaged a novel every twelve days! I was looking for artwork to extend my Christmas Card program, and I […]
Space themed Christmas Cards
Thursday, December 22, 2005
I am testing a little script that I wrote that sends out Christmas Cards based on some soviet era holiday cards. It works for me, but I am not sure that it is bug free. Please give it a try:/xmas/This is good for Scienc Fiction Buffs. There are dozens of more cards, but the labor […]
Too late for Christmas
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Here’s a CD coming out in January that I think I might buy. Songs: 1. Flying Saucer Boogie 2. Rocket Boogie 3. Trail Of Haley’s Comet 4. Two Little Men In A Flying Saucer 5. Honeymoon On A Rocket Ship 6. Jet Propelled Papa 7. Space Guitar 8. Rocket 889. Flip 10. Rockin’ With The […]
Illo for "Note to Self"
Monday, December 19, 2005
Chris has been working. I was shown my story at Static Movement and it has an illustration by Kevin James Hurtack. My only objection is that is suffers from a pixel resize by the browser. It needs some work in resizing it. I have smoothed the image and then resized it here. It is 1/5 […]