Edgar Rice Burroughs

Endings and Beginnings: Wayback Wednesday

After fourteen weeks, we have finally arrived at the end of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Pirates of Venus. A milestone. Yet the journey isn’t...

The Comic Rack: Wayback Wednesday

A story many of us are familiar with: “As a distant planet was destroyed by old age, a scientist placed his infant son within a hastily...

“It’s the End of the World as We Know It”: Wayback Wednesday

World War II ended in a huge bang. Most explosively, the detonation of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With the surrender of...

War Changes Everything: Wayback Wednesday

The stock market crash of October 24, 1929, heralded the beginning of the Great Depression. Worldwide gross domestic product (GDP) was...

Cheap Paper, Cheap Printing, & Cheap Authors: Wayback Wednesday

In 1882, Frank Munsey launched a children’s magazine titled The Golden Argosy. He used a steam printing press to ink the pages, which...

To Be Continued…: Wayback Wednesday

To be continued…” How many of us have seen these words at the end of a story? Maybe you’ve seen it in a television episode. But in a book...

The Cost of Fiction: Wayback Wednesday

“We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.” LeVar Burton, on creating the Reading Rainbow iPad app. We live in a...

"A Beginning is a Very Delicate Time." : Wayback Wednesday

Take a moment to think about the science fiction and fantasy media you have access to. It probably took longer than only a moment,

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