Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Latest contribution to Amazing Stories Magazine: The Hero Pulp Explosion!
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P.J. Farmer, Grand Master Award winner in 2000, launched a popular string of novels and essays postulating that a meteorite that landed in Wold Newton, England, in 1795 radiated a band of nearby travelers, whose mutated genes formed the basis for the birth of all the heroes and villains who populated the pages, film, and radio waves of during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Whether you are a Wold Newton follower little matters. It is a matter of documented fact that during the year 1933, publishers detonated a population bomb that eventually lit the fuse that exploded the Wold Newton notion in Farmer’s imagination.
In 1933, Street & Smith published the first issue of Doc Savage Magazine, cover dated for March. Following Doc’s appearance on the newsstands, pulp magazines featuring The Phantom Detective, The Spider, The Avenger, Thunder Jim Wade, Jim Anthony, The Whisperer, and a host of others began to swarm the racks that once had been dominated by general fiction publications like Argosy, Adventure, Blue Book, and a few others
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Read more at the Magazine . . .
Labels: 1933, Amazing Stories, Doc Savage, hero pulp explosion, The Shadow, The Spider
Friday, December 21, 2012
The original science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, scheduled to return
Amazing Stories, the world's first science fiction magazine, opens for
Beta Testing of Phase 1 on Wednesday, January 2, 2013.
Fifty+ Writers Sign On to provide genre-related content!
And I'm pleased to say I’ll be one of them.
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013, I will be joined by more than 50 other
writers from around the blogosphere to help launch the Beta Test of Phase 1 of
the return of Amazing Stories.
Amazing Stories was the world's first science fiction magazine. Published by Hugo Gernsback, the Father of
Science Fiction, the magazine created the genre's first home and was
instrumental in helping to establish science fiction fandom – the fandom from
which all other fandoms have evolved.
The magazine itself ceased publication in 2005; in 2008 the new
publisher, Steve Davidson, discovered that the trademarks had lapsed and
applied for them. The marks were finally
granted in 2011.
For me, this is all one of those Six Degrees of Separation experiences.
Once upon a time I worked for a technical publishing start up, The Cobb Group,
which was eventually purchased by William Ziff, Jr., heir to the Ziff-Davis
publishing empire. Ziff-Davis had been the owner of Amazing Stories from 1938
to 1965.
Fellows I’d once worked with at The Cobb Group later started an
internet-based publishing business, Emazing.com, where I worked as Content
Director. And now, here I am, a blogger about pulps soon to be blogging for
that first science fiction pulp magazine in its new incarnation: Amazing
Stories. It might not be an exact circle, but I see the path as a sort of
wobbly ellipse. Seen from the ecliptic.
Back to Amazing Stories:
Phase 1 introduces the social networking aspects of the site and the Blog Team: more than 50 authors, artists, collectors, editors, pod casters, designers and bloggers who will address 14 different subjects on a regular basis – SF, Fantasy & Horror literature, anime, gaming, film, television, the visual arts, audio works, the pulps, comics, fandom, science and publishing.
Those wishing to participate in the Beta Test should request an invite
by emailing the publisher, Steve Davidson.
Steve’s launching the new Amazing Stories from the appropriately named Experimenter
Publishing Company in Hillsboro, New Hampshire.
Labels: Amazing Stories, blog, pulps, science fiction, Steve Davidson, Ziff-Davis
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