Showing posts with label popular culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label popular culture. Show all posts
Friday, May 12, 2017

FFB: TURNING POINTS edited by Damon Knight (Harper & Row 1977); DREAM MAKERS: VOLUME II interviews conducted by Charles Platt (Berkley 1985)

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Two books about sf and fantasy and what's around them, Damon Knight's pioneering gathering of essays from various sources, about ...
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Sunday, March 26, 2017

Doubleday Book Clubs ad copy triumphs of the 1950s

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Perhaps the worst of the often ridiculous Science Fiction Book Club (US version) ads of the 1950s: Meanwhile, the Dollar Mystery Guild ...
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Friday, March 24, 2017

FFB: THE BANTAM STORY: THIRTY YEARS OF PAPERBACK PUBLISHING by Clarence Petersen (Bantam 1975)

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Bantam first commissioned from Clarence Petersen a not quite (but somewhat) potted history of their corporate  adventure in 1970, and then ...
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Friday, March 17, 2017

FFB: POPCORN AND SEXUAL POLITICS: MOVIE REVIEWS by Kathi Maio (Crossing Press 1991); Maio in F&SF

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I briefly reviewed Kathi Maio's first collection of film reviews, from the feminist magazine Sojourner  (as distinct from the leftist...
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Friday, December 9, 2016

FFB: DIRTY! DIRTY! DIRTY! by Mike Edison (Soft Skull Press 2011); THE CREATION OF TOMORROW by Paul A. Carter (Columbia University Press 1977)

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Paul A. Carter died 28 November, aged 90. He was a very occasional contributor to science fiction literature, but his The Creation of To...
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Friday, December 2, 2016

FFS(&E&RP): some uncollected Wilma Shore short stories (and essays and one radio play) online (and one Joseph Payne Brennan poem)

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Two blogposts over the last half-decade isn't Too much to devote to the late, brilliant Wilma Shore, whose career is briefly limned h...
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