Science Fiction, I feel should have some reasonable plausibility, some scientific accuracy; with this in mind we add a hand full of fantasy, which is more into the area of image-making, mental images that is, fantastic as they may be, such as fairytales. Thus, one needs to now add some spice, perhaps the supernatural part of fiction, and you have a spacecraft ready to go, with a ting of extrasensory perception, you can now go to the Black Galaxy, or to the planet Moiromma, where Siren the Great is, or chase Tangor across time and space. With such characters and ingredients, one can meet the primitive, as Jules Verne, H.G. Well, Clark A. Smith, Robert E. Howard, Jack London, Doyle, along with Edger Rice Burroughs, Lin Carter, August Derleth and yes, myself, would have you meet. The love affair, or ongoing saga affair with Science Fiction has been going on a long time, with an endless flow of themes. Where Man takes trips to the moon, Venus, and torches anti-gravity, time travel. Some writers go into it deeper and as we have seen created "Frankenstein.' In the '20s and '30s we saw a lot of magazines such as "Weird Tales" pick up such stories, in this genre, and feed them to the public. Again I say, the love affair is still going on. |
