blog post #61 by Science Fiction Author Clara Bush Back in the 1990s, when our family first got Dish, I was a huge fan of the SyFy channel. Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, and Firefly provided me with a regular dose of sci-fi to satisfy my craving for the genre. Then something happened to the Sci Fi Channel. They […]
blog post #52 by Science Fiction Author Clara Bush Cover of Weird Tales, October 1934. Painting by Margaret Brundage If a time-traveling headline had been written in 1933 to summarize C.L. Moore’s influence on science fiction, it might have read: Twenty-two-Year-Old Impacts Science Fiction Forever Her first published story, Shambleau, left the bleak, mechanical, and apathetic […]
blog post #48 by Science Fiction Author Clara Bush Image at Pixabay by Simon Before writing his 1906 bestselling novel, The Jungle, Upton Sinclair spent seven weeks undercover in Chicago meatpacking plants. His purpose in writing his political fiction was to rally support for the factory workers. Sinclair’s graphic details depicting the sale of spoiled beef, […]
