Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Indian All Big Breast

Will he Wendigo in SF?


As it has been many times I get asked the question, put as much now about things straight: yes, there will be texts that provided SF 'they are not in the register "hard-SF" and they have significant fantasy elements and / or horror. After all, this was the case of a large part related SF stories published until the pulps as specialized Amazing Stories and his successors in the 1930s are shaping American science fiction as a genre defined with relatively precise rules.

Reissue to 750 ex. numbered in 1978 the famous "round robin" SF / Fantasy
published in 1935 Fantasy Magazine (USA) in September 1935. Ex # 233.
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So little chance to read for example of Space Opera Wendigo will be, to make a comparison distinctly American, more under the sign of Weird Tales, Argosy or Adventure than under that of Astounding ... But other issues closely associated with science fiction like the invasion from elsewhere when it is treated as was done in Lovecraft "The Colour Out of Space", and not big shot death rays and spacecraft, will be quite a place in the magazine. Same thing for the planet Mars when it is "perfect" on Edgar Rice Burroughs or the lost civilizations of the Lost Race novels, etc..

RDN

Friday, July 3, 2009

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Wendigo # 1: folder MORGAN ROBERTSON


(Morgan Robertson in 1897)

The record of the first issue of Wendigo will be devoted to the American Morgan Robertson remained famous in history for having "prophesied" in a novel in 1898 against the tragedy of the sinking of an iceberg TITANIC, 14 years before launching the boat, so many years before even the idea of building this boat had germinated in the minds of policymakers the White Star ... And when we know that the ship designed by Morgan Robertson called the ... TITAN and its technical characteristics were almost identical to those of TITANIC, it's reasonable to ask questions ...

Unjustly forgotten, Morgan Robertson (1861-1915) was a U.S. Marine of the great writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Among his work mainly consisted of short stories published in major newspapers of the time to be reunited for the best of them in several collections, many stories are fantasy or horror unknown in French. William Hope Hodgson as he was a professional sailor before becoming a writer for New York and make friends with Joseph Conrad, Robert W. Chambers, Irvin S. Cobb and many others ...

I had the great pleasure of Morgan Robertson one of the two heroes of my comics fantastic album Titanic designed by the talented Patrick A. Dumas and published in April 2009 published by Sun series "Secret Land"

In the present circumstances, the record will include Morgan Robertson at least a new fantasy novel, an article by Yves Lignon the links between Robertson and parapsychology (particularly in history the "premonition" TITAN / TITANIC) and a bio-bibliography consistently concocted by yours truly.

RDN