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…
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…
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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…
A new series of a quick, bite-sized adventures Pulp 101 is a new occasional series of short, lively history nuggets on The Rocketeer. Think of it as your ticket to the wild and wonderful underbelly of the pulp magazines —…
Rocket-Fueled Pulp Archaeology—Digging Up the Past to Inspire Tomorrow The 100th Episode The Rocketeer’s 100th episode reflects upon the origins and evolution of the podcast—from a modest pulp newsletter to a full-fledged exploration of what I call Pulp Archaeology: the…
This week’s Rocketeer was about artwork, specifically of pulp illustrator Julian Krupa, a staple of the Amazing Story issues of the late 1930s and 1940s. Krupa’s work was perfect for the moment, and I’ve wanted to show it off for…
