@SFFMagazineCovers I wonder what the thinking was for those jagged, very un Earth-like mountains we see in these delightful old pictures, whether it was a design choice or some scientific theory of the time?

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🚀 Mientras en EE.UU. los pulps dominaban los quioscos, en España la sci-fi luchaba por espacio entre folletines y novelas de a duro. ¡Teníamos nuestros propios héroes galácticos! 🌌📖 Descúbrelos en nuestro nuevo episodio ▶️ go.ivoox.com/rf/138981376

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🚀📖 ¿Sabías que en los años 30 la ciencia ficción era tan "peligrosa" que algunos creían que podía corromper a la juventud? 😱 ¡Pero los pulps crearon los cimientos de la sci-fi moderna! Descúbrelo en nuestro nuevo episodio ▶️ go.ivoox.com/rf/138981376

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🚀📖 Aventuras imposibles, héroes intrépidos y mundos alucinantes… ¡La era dorada de la ciencia ficción pulp! 🤩✨ De EE.UU. a España, exploramos sus historias y legado.

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In Ralph Milne Farley’s 1939 scifi novel The Hidden Universe an engineer in an industrial colony notices odd things - like the length of the days and the fact that there no stars at night. Some wildly inventive imaginative ideas in this book.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/10/ralph-milne-farleys-hidden-universe.html

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Ralph Milne Farley’s The Hidden Universe

Roger Sherman Hoar (1887-1963) was an American politician who also wrote a considerable amount of rather interesting pulp science fiction un...

Frederik Pohl’s sci-fi novel Danger Moon was published in 1951. There's trouble on the Moon - suspected sabotage at a uranium mine. Reasonably realistic in the light of what was known in 1951 but basically a very conventional story.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/09/frederik-pohls-danger-moon-red-moon-of.html

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Frederik Pohl’s Danger Moon (Red Moon of Danger)

Frederik Pohl’s science fiction short novel Danger Moon was published in 1951. A variant of the story with the title Red Moon of Danger ap...