Day: November 7, 2015

Giveaway! Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers

Thanks to our friends at Simon & Schuster, we’ve got 10 copies of Matt Kaplan’s Science of the Magical:
From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers to give away to 10 lucky winners with a US mailing address! I recently enjoyed Kaplan’s “light look at what truth might lie behind tales of magic.”

Here’s what the publisher says:

From the author of The Science of Monsters, this engaging scientific inquiry provides a definitive look into the elements of mystical places and magical objects—from the philosopher’s stone,

November 7th, 2015. Bill Capossere | Giveaway! | 3 comments |

Ghosts and Girls of Fiction House! Ed. Michael Price

Ghosts and Girls of Fiction House! Ed. Michael Price

In the early history of comic books, Fiction House was well known for its “headlight comics,” so named for the focus on buxom half-dressed females. Though the publisher spanned various genres, including jungle stories, aviator adventure tales, and space opera, as the title implies, Ghosts and Girls of Fiction House!, edited by Michael Price, focuses on their supernatural stories, in particular a long-running series entitled “The Ghost Gallery by Drew Murdoch” (Murdoch is the private eye narrator,

November 7th, 2015. Bill Capossere´s rating: 3 | Comics | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |

The Time Tunnel: Well worth your… time

The Time Tunnel from Irwin Allen

By the time Irwin Allen’s The Time Tunnel premiered on ABC TV on September 9, 1966, the versatile producer/director/screenwriter had already released two hugely successful television programs. His first, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, itself based on Allen’s 1961 film, ran for four seasons, from 1964 – ’68, and can almost be viewed as Star Trek underwater (actually, since Voyage preceded Trek by two years, it would be more accurate to say that Star Trek was Voyage…

November 7th, 2015. Sandy Ferber | Film / TV | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |

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