Every time I go to class I go past a shop that looks just so exciting with lots of words hanging in the window just like I’ve seen people hanging their Christmas Cards. The day of my GAT it was open so I popped in and bought something. Wish I’d ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
You know, I had two whole paragraphs written and it read like self indulgent rubbish so I’ve just deleted every word and I’m going to write about a magazine I picked up an an op shop a while ago. It’s called the Smithsonian and is published by the Smithsonian Institute ...
I’ve been planning a post on pulp fiction magazines for quite some time, I won’t count the years. It was going to be a retrospective or a series of retrospectives as I thought the golden age of pulp fiction magazines was in the 1920s to 1950s but I found this ...
It’s popularly known as ASIM because we’re so fond of acronyms and it’s much easier to say. I love ASIM and have almost every magazine sitting on my shelf, they are chocfull of seriously fabulous writing and as I haven’t written about them yet I’m taking this opportunity to do ...
Pulp fiction was of great importance to the working classes. These were people who weren’t earning a lot of money and they couldn’t afford to buy many magazines until pulp fiction arrived. 1896 was when Argosy Magazine was first published, it was published on cheap wood pulp paper as opposed ...
I wish I had a dollar (US of course) for every time I’ve been asked this question. I’ve grown up with the idea of them as I collected Stitch by Stitch when I was young so I just assumed everyone knew, it seems I was wrong. Partwork magazines were, and ...
The MSFC (Melbourne Science Fiction Club) ran a fabulous Minicon last Saturday. If you run or are a member of a science fiction club in Melbourne then you should have been there. If you’re not a member of a science fiction club and want to consider joining one you should ...