Weekly digest of what I've been up to this past week.| An Archaeopteryx
Some background information and context on Black Mask magazine and its audience.| An Archaeopteryx
I’ve written before about the impact the long-defunct Orion Crime Masterworks series had on my discovery of classic-era crime and detective fiction, and a recent pruning of my shelves brought…| The Invisible Event
Previously: The mysterious B. TravenNext: Portable dreamweavers The year 2015 was more productive than the prior for blogging. I managed to eke out twenty-six blog posts, or about one every two weeks. In the world of blogging this is nothing to crow about. I never intended for this blog to be a daily writing exercise, […]| Jim Nelson
Many decades ago, before I started reading science fiction regularly, my preferred reading when young was Alistair Maclean novels and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. I don’t read many thrillers or…| MarzAat