tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post3404334932734608809..comments2024-03-28T16:17:20.965-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Super-Science Fiction, June 1959mybillcriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-55644497375882333262010-04-22T18:15:38.668-05:002010-04-22T18:15:38.668-05:00By that time, I knew the stories were dumb, but I ...By that time, I knew the stories were dumb, but I still read 'em. And as far as I know it was a regular goldfish bowl. That's what it's called, no further description given.mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-25961415546500119622010-04-22T18:15:11.061-05:002010-04-22T18:15:11.061-05:00Alas, I don't know who Thompson nor Rosenquist...Alas, I don't know who Thompson nor Rosenquist Really might be (Tom Stoppard might--THOMPSON AND ROSENQUIST ARE READ languishes uproduced), but Mike Ashley surely would.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-8016461281712684712010-04-22T18:08:38.107-05:002010-04-22T18:08:38.107-05:00BTW, was the goldfish bowl just a normal goldfish ...BTW, was the goldfish bowl just a normal goldfish bowl? Super-science!<br /><br />Patti: well, you aren't a kid looking for cheap thrills with what you read today, as Bill was as late as 1959...I suspect, Bill, that by this issue you weren't taking SSF terribly seriously either.<br /><br />George: Not too often. Thank goodness. Though it is handsome in its way.<br /><br />Ed's spelling of Bloch as "Block" only reflects how SSF itself blurbed Bloch's decent "Broomstick Ride" on the cover of that issue.<br />Ah, well.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-19189679887635526092010-04-22T18:06:16.327-05:002010-04-22T18:06:16.327-05:00Thanks for the link, Todd. Great stuff. I wish I...Thanks for the link, Todd. Great stuff. I wish I had the book.mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-16481108495755749662010-04-22T18:01:26.976-05:002010-04-22T18:01:26.976-05:00Robert Silverberg, on a certain discussion list, h...Robert Silverberg, on a certain discussion list, has from time to time been trying to remember which stories he wrote for this magazine, whose editor W.W. Scott Harlan Ellison has most memorably eulogized in a piece that has appeared in various places, though mostly for his work on the crime-fiction stablemates (which Ellison and Silverberg also contributed to, of course), of comparable quality (though apparently rather better than the ever-devolving SATURN SF/WEB DETECTIVE/WEB TERROR magazine...which went from running a lost Jules Verne story and other reasonably good sf and fantasy, through lurid bottom of the market CF to a revival of the "shudder" pulp format of stories of torture, essentially S&M porn with the sex per se softpedalled).<br /><br />Here's a blog with some handsome covers (and some just The Kind Men Like) and a short Silverberg interview of some relevance:<br /><br />http://vintagesleazepaperbacks.wordpress.com/category/robert-silverberg/Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-73207932747713477862010-04-21T07:20:03.860-05:002010-04-21T07:20:03.860-05:00I love the cover! You don't see covers like t...I love the cover! You don't see covers like that on contemporary SF magazines or paperbacks.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-61637571314421732642010-04-20T12:24:05.716-05:002010-04-20T12:24:05.716-05:00The stories are readable, all right. Just painfull...The stories are readable, all right. Just painfully dumb. But who cares. I read 'em then, and I love 'em now.mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-76683787715581057512010-04-20T12:22:41.496-05:002010-04-20T12:22:41.496-05:00I read every issue. Except for the occasional Bob ...I read every issue. Except for the occasional Bob Block or Isaac Asimov I always went for the Silverberg and his pen-names. Silverberg was such a pro that he could make even his stuff for that magazine readable.Ed Gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-3976076613051751772010-04-20T12:17:44.378-05:002010-04-20T12:17:44.378-05:00Or mine.Or mine.mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-86889576478680286742010-04-20T10:50:26.432-05:002010-04-20T10:50:26.432-05:00But I bet there are stories we read today with a s...But I bet there are stories we read today with a straight face that will suffer the same fate. Just hope they are not mine.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com