#scide splitters

Review: The Yes-Men of Venus by Ron Goulart

The Yes-Men of Venus is a short story by Ron Goulart that originally appeared in the July 1963 (Volume 37, No. 7) issue of Amazing Stories (Ziff-Davis Publishing). If you’re not familiar with Goulart’s work, my review of his book Capricorn One was posted here almost a year ago and Dave Kilman wrote a great piece about the author in his “Scide Splitters” series back in 2015. The version of The…

Scide Splitters: The Starcrossed by Ben Bova

In case you missed the news, a couple of weeks ago The Experimenter Publishing Company (parent company of Amazing Stories) signed a licensing agreement with NBC/Universal Television for use of the Amazing Stories’ name for a reboot of the 1980s TV show. It is exciting news, but if you are a fan like me, you can’t help but have that contradictory sensation of cringing hope. The awareness that this…