It’s Vintage Sci-Fi Month again! For those of you not familiar with this not-a-challenge, it runs every January and is about reading vintage science fiction (or fantasy). “Vintage” is defined as being before 1979 or your birth year, whichever is easier. I’ll be taking the chance to talk about one of my favorite vintage comicContinue reading “Vintage SciFi Month: Mysta of the Moon”
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Vintage SciFi Month: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars is serial fiction at its finest. Long before Netflix perfected the algorithm to keep us glued to our seats for episode after episode, Edgar Rice Burroughs had that s**t down. Originally serialized in the magazine The All-Story in 1912, A Princess of Mars tells the story of John Carter. He’s aContinue reading “Vintage SciFi Month: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs”
Try Broadswords and Blasters Issue 12
Space cops! Ray-gun fights! Space fashion! Alien divas! I love all these things, which is why they ended up in a short story I wrote recently called Starstruck. It’s a retro sci-fi adventure that ticks off a couple boxes from my 5 Favorite Vintage Sci-Fi Tropes list and is inspired by old science fiction andContinue reading “Try Broadswords and Blasters Issue 12”
Vintage Sci-Fi Month: The Zero Stone by Andre Norton
Used bookstores have certain sort of magic. It might be the smell of old pages filling the air like fairy dust, or the chance to stumble upon a hidden gem with a story lost to time. And no two stores are the same, each one giving us a new maze of bookshelves to explore. There’sContinue reading “Vintage Sci-Fi Month: The Zero Stone by Andre Norton”
5 Favorite Vintage Sci-Fi Tropes
Did you know January is Vintage Science Fiction month? I didn’t until I saw the hashtag on Twitter, which piqued my interest, because I love old sci-fi. You can feel the enthusiasm and energy in a lot of those old space travel stories, written in a time where mankind was just venturing beyond Earth’s atmosphere,Continue reading “5 Favorite Vintage Sci-Fi Tropes”
Kristen Brand 