"This is a big one for me — maybe the one I feel most strongly about," Bryce Zabel (@hollywoodufos) tweeted on August 13 about his article "People Get Ready," published that same day on medium.com. It's an important article, filled with prophecies, nearly all of which I think are bound to fail. … [Read more...]
“Flying Saucers?” – A Voice from Sixty Years Past
I published my first article on UFOs when I was 13 years old. I was in eighth grade at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Junior High School in Bristol, Pennsylvania; I'd gotten hooked on flying saucers, as it was then more normal to call them, a few months before. It all came from reading what in my … [Read more...]
UFOs in 1929? – The Art of Frank R. Paul
Look at this picture and tell me: what does it show? Frank R. Paul’s cover for the November 1929 “Science Wonder Stories,” via Wikimedia Commons. A red and yellow UFO, you think–hovering or drifting through outer space with a skyscraper caught in its elongated tentacles? A more distant UFO behind … [Read more...]
Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Moon Flights, and Little Green Men
It’s not very often you get to use the word "charming" for a piece of literary scholarship. That's precisely the word, though, that fits Marjorie Hope Nicolson’s Voyages to the Moon, published in 1948 by the Macmillan Company. The book is 66 years old, which the same age I am until my birthday … [Read more...]
The Shaver Mystery – Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria (Part 3)
(This is the conclusion of my two latest posts, a review of the books The Man From Mars: Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey by Fred Nadis, and War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction by Richard Toronto, both published in 2013.) They're … [Read more...]
