Above is an ad from the UK’s Science Fiction Book Club taken from a summer 1972 edition of The Observer. These adverts appeared in the paper, as far as I can see, once or twice a month, were relatively small, and were placed right at the bottom of one of the The Observer’s book review […]
Read More July 31st 1972 – The Science Fiction Book ClubEdmund Cooper wrote an awful lot of books. Many under his own name and many not. He penned novels and all manner of shorter stories and whodunnits and non-fiction and romances and criticism and technical pieces and stories for children and poetry. He wrote and he wrote and he wrote. (When I was stumbling through […]
Read More July 20th 1972 – Edmund Cooper’s ‘Who Needs Men?'”Discussions of science fiction books in the “quality” press were relatively rare. But, as on this Sunday in 1972, the likes of The Observer would occasionally feature a review column. It’s a perfect encapsulation of how hard it was to keep in touch with what was being released. Firstly, the titles were all hardbacks except […]
Read More July 16th 1972 – This Month In Science Fiction Books?On this day in 1972, heavy-blues trio The Groundhogs continued their only American tour with a concert at the Pocono International Raceway in Blakeslee, Pennsylvania. Their sole excursion across The Pond was soon to be curtailed by band leader Tony McPhee’s fall from a horse. By the 21st of this month, they’d be back in […]
Read More July 10th 1972 – Neal Adams, Making Superheroes Out Of The Mighty Groundhogs
The Almanac Of The Fantastical 