The Rocketeer Podcast Series Archive
Welcome to the ongoing series archive for The Rocketeer Podcast, the audio wing of Lucina Press.
Category Science Fiction History
Horsesense Hank the Scientific Pioneer
Rocketeer Podcast episode 98 — From Pulp Hero to Modern Legend: Horsesense Hank and the Evolving Jive of “Scientific Pioneer” Between 1940 and 1942, Nelson S. Bond wrote a short series for Amazing Stories featuring a lanky farmer named “Horsesense”…
If Amazing Stories Had Never Existed
A continuing inquiry into science fiction’s editorial origins and alternative futures. In 1926, Amazing Stories became the first magazine devoted entirely to what its publisher called “scientifiction.” Over time, it helped define not just a body of stories, but a…
Happy New Year 2026
Happy New Year 2026, space explorers! January first already? It’s hard to believe. I’m not going to spend too much time on the usual 2025 wrap-up and stated intentions for the new year. If you’ve been following my Lucina Press…
Remembering Gil Gerard (1943–2025)
Buck Rogers and the Living Future Today, we mark the passing of Gil Gerard, the actor who brought Buck Rogers to television audiences in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981). Gerard’s death, announced today, December 17, 2025, closes a…
WorldCon 2025 Highlights & Pulp Archaeology at Lucina Press
The Rocketeer Podcast #74 features WorldCon 2025 highlights and some exciting plans for Lucina Press. I haven’t posted on this blog since just before Seattle WorldCon. It seems like an age! In a way, I guess it has been an…
Counter-Earth in Early Sci-Fi, Rocketeer Podcast #71
Counter-Earth in Early Sci-Fi: Edison Marshall’s Lost Classic This week, I dive into Edison Marshall’s short story, “Who is Charles Avison?” (1916)—a long-overlooked gem of early science fiction. In this story, a man returns from a test flight in his…
Centralia Author Joins Pulp Legends in New Book
Centralia, Washington author, Sara Light-Waller, joins pulp legends A Merritt and E.E. “Doc” Smith in “The Ultimate Cosmos”—a 1933 space-opera gem resurrected by First Fandom Experience. Light-Waller penned a contest-winning alternate ending to Edmond Hamilton’s Chapter 17, putting her on the…
Podcast #70: Crafting Clear Pulp Heroes in a Morally Grey World
You may have already figured out that I love crafting pulp stories. You haven’t yet seen my newest, I announce the title in this week’s podcast! (And the cover reveal is planned for June 18th.) I’m very proud of it.…
Podcast #66: Jack Finney and Time
Jack Finney and time. In this week’s Rocketeer podcast, I dive into the imagination of Jack Finney, best known for the novels, Time and Again and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. In his time travel stories, Finney explores the strange…