I don’t how having played Red Dead Redemption has changed my experience of watching Spaghetti Westerns. I find myself thinking about the game and wondering how certain scenes would be rendered in it.

Keep the home fires burning!

Check out my latest blogpost. It’s my first look at pulp fiction from the Ziff-Davis family of science fiction and fantasy magazines. There’s some real treasure here. open.substack.com/pub/williame... #booksky

Watching an episode of the Outer Limits and there’s a character with an office door that says, “Consulting Psychiatrist Asteroid Mining Project,” and isn’t that rad?

You ever just be blogging and need to write five paragraphs that you're pretty sure you'll need to delete later just to get them out of your system?

Got my collection of Thrilling Wonder Stories bagged and boarded and organized by date last night. Some random covers I like. #booksky

Someday I will die for Hugo Gernsback and John W. Campbell apologia at the hands of some kind of genre person I haven't imagined yet. But when they come for the memory of Raymond A. Palmer, I may just keep my mouth shut.

Currently viewing Charles Bronson and Vincent Price in Jules Verne’s Master of the World (1961).

The artist is Mark Salwowski The Internet Speculative Fiction Database is really the place to check: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.c...

Feral UK edition of Strange Relations . Uncredited cover illustrates Philip José Farmer’s Freudian womb-return story “Mother” #booksky

The pleasure of petting my cat while reading a pulp magazine on the couch. #booksky

I am enjoying listening to the new Charley Crockett album.

How it’s going. #booksky

Check out my latest blogpost about the January 1950 issue of Astounding Science Fiction! open.substack.com/pub/williame...

Last night I bought five boxes of cereal. Just woke up from a dream about them.

POWER TO THE APES @mattreevesla.bsky.social

Another new pulp I bought special for my blog. Cover by Ramon Naylor. Interiors by Leo Ramon Summers and Murphy Anderson.

Reminds me that Debs said, “While there is a criminal element, I am of it.”

From my latest blogpost open.substack.com/pub/williame...

Oh no! I bought more pulps! #booksky

I’ve lived in this apartment for more than three months and am just now filling out one of my book cases. #shelfie #booksky

This was good.

This was interesting.

Good day at work when I get to dig in on admin work and listen to these guys.

No Kings in Lexington, Ky., as seen from the roof of the central library.

Let me tell you, that audiobook of “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe was not a nice casual listen for eating cereal in the middle of the night.

After a long hiatus, I’m renewing my read through of Astounding Science Fiction. In this installment, I beg the no-longer-timely question of whether John W. Campbell was a fascist. open.substack.com/pub/williame... #booksky

RETVRN but for lurid, colorful SFF covers

another day in which, on top of everything else, I'm mad about the SFF cover shift from "little pre-raphaelite painting you can put in your pocket" to "we gave the intern our Canva log-in"

Check out my blogpost about H. Rider Haggard’s novel Allan and the Ice-Gods. Drug-induced past life regression and revolution in the Pleistocene, baby! open.substack.com/pub/williame... #booksky

PULPS! (The table is on its side for, um, reasons) #booksky

MORMON AND ANTI-MORMON BOOKS BOUGHT #booksky

“Those who would know must first look to see,” said Pag —Allan and the Ice Gods by H. Rider Haggard.

"She stood, a great scarlet moth, hovering before flight..." Virgil Finlay's interior art for Ray Cummings' "The Man Who Mastered Time" in Fantastic Novels Magazine (March 1950) #scifi #sciencefiction #art

Fantastic novels magazine #pulp #1940s #scifi

This concludes my centennial series on Amazing Stories, the first science fiction magazine. In it, I talk about stories by Jules Verne and H. G. Wells that the magazine reprinted. They may be ones you haven’t heard of before! open.substack.com/pub/williame...

The heady power of having a 5 Hour Energy and a Velo 9mg for breakfast.

Virgil Finlay, Astral Man, 1963

Haul from the Friends of the Library store I work in. The Poe is from 1905.

I managed to make it through the night without listening to Limp Bizkit 🙏

In bed at a responsible hour but I’m lying here and have “Nookie” stuck in my head.

Part 3 of my look at the first science fiction magazine Amazing Stories’ premier issue gets into the science fiction-horror reprinted in its pages. Edgar Allan Poe! George Allan England! open.substack.com/pub/williame...

“I’ll just dig out a little stack of pulps to peruse for my blog,” I said. 🫠

In part 2 of my centennial celebration of Amazing Stories, I look at a story by Austin Hall about how the Martians almost destroy Earth trying to steal our water and the one scientist visionary and poetic enough to stop them. It’s “The Man Who Saved The Earth” !! open.substack.com/pub/williame...

Rested all evening. Time for battle (writing my blog).

Sadly I am a Bezos slave addicted to Audible. Looking at my app just now I noticed that—perhaps unsurprisingly—I discovered that they have added an AI interface. Somehow I am flabbergasted. Do we need this technology everywhere—even in our audiobook apps?

I am celebrating the centennial of the first science fiction magazine Amazing Stories with a series of posts on my blog about its first issue. CW: Hugo Gernsback apologia inside. open.substack.com/pub/williame...

I could be at Quaker meeting praying right now but instead I’m sitting in my little apartment writing about Hugo Gernsback.

Absurd that I can shop for 70+ year old science fiction and fantasy magazines 24 hours a day from my phone. I should have to go to my little specialty convention for this.

I love a good one-on-one with another socialist organizer. Had two in the past couple days.