Modernism’s hopes for mankind found expression in numerous ways, many of which fell directly into the wheelhouse of science fiction. ...

As NASA’s Curiosity rover trundles about the surface of Mars today, another page turns on the glories of pulp science fiction.   Leigh Br...

Edgar Rice Burroughs genre milestone A Princess of Mars ended with the hero appropriately back on Earth where he’d begun his tale.  ...

A Princess of Mars (1912) by Edgar Rice Burroughs is one of the most over-the-top novels ever written.   Inspired by pulp and in tur...

It is myth; it is legend; it is part of the fabric of the culture.   Every schoolboy and girl in the US knows the story of the Pilgri...

I am agog.   Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1912 A Princess of Mars is a book I’d never read, that is, until turning the last page today—...

Mars has been a subject of science fiction since before the genre became a fixture:   Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles , Philip ...

His output hit or miss, it’s easy to be skeptical cracking open a book by Philip K. Dick.  The psychotic craziness of Dick’s personal li...

(This review has also been posted at www.fantasyliterature.com .) A sturdy home in the burbs seems ...