In this episode of The Rocketeer Podcast, we’re digging deep into the lost art of Chelsea House dust jackets — the eye-catching covers that helped Street & Smith dominate popular fiction in the 1920s and 1930s. I’ve spent years hunting…
The Avenging Twins, Golden Isle, The Crimson Clown, Moon Magic, and Grizzly Gallagher are but a few of the more than three hundred novels published by Chelsea House during the 1920s and 30s. These books were collected from serials originally…
What If Amazing Stories Never Existed? Part III— No Campbell, No Cyberpunk, No Matrix The latest episode of the Rocketeer Podcast is now available! In this third installment of my Amazing Stories centennial counterfactual series, I dive deep into one…
I recently had the opportunity to appear briefly in a Polish documentary exploring the life and work of illustrator Julian Krupa. Amazing Story: The Life of Julian Krupa is a serious and carefully constructed film, shaped primarily by the filmmakers’…
Announcing Two Major Books on the Iconic 1920s–1930s Publisher Chelsea House — Plus My Growing Collection of Over 100 Volumes I wanted to share some exciting news with you today! But first, some background. Street & Smith was a large…
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Was Clare Winger Harris’ story the uncredited origin of the “Planet of the Apes”? What if the original “Planet of the Apes” story appeared decades before the movie came out in 1968? Today in Rocketeer Podcast #104, we’ll look at…
Episode 2 of the Amazing Stories Centennial Counterfactual series. New Rocketeer Podcast Episode: 1915 – The Year the War Almost Killed Science Fiction In 1915, the shadow of World War I was already reshaping the future of storytelling. In Europe,…
Hugo Gernsback & the Pulp April Fool’s Hall of Fame This week on the Rocketeer Podcast, we’re discussing how to build regenerative vacuum tube circuits. The schematics in figures 1-5 outline the differences between the new French and American audions…
The Dime-Novel Roots The roots of adventure and where the whole damn thing started Hel-lo, you star-dreamin’ cats and kittens! This week’s Rocketeer Podcast drops the first nugget of my new occasional series Pulp 101, and we’re startin’ right at…
