A while back I wrote a post about Tove Jansson’s last Moomin book, Moominvalley in November (1971), pointing out that behind the innocent guise of…
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Tag: 1970s
Tickets for Kate Bush’s first live concert in 35 years went on sale this morning and within fifteen minutes all 80,000 had gone. The fact…
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The history of British TV is littered with brilliant one-off series and TV programmes that appeared once or twice and then vanished, seemingly forever. John…
1 CommentThe early 1970s saw a renaissance in Science Fiction and Fantasy cover art in the UK, led by New English Library and Panther. If you…
5 CommentsI’m still waiting for Conan. The first Arnold Schwarzenegger film was kind of OK, and had one or two impressive moments. The second was dire…
4 CommentsOn my last trip up to Yorkshire I found one of my favourite childhood books, Life Before Man, by Zdenek Burian (pictures) and Zdenek V.…
10 CommentsI started reading science fiction round about the same time I got into music, and so being a fairly literal minded so-and-so I immediately embarked…
2 CommentsThis post is a bit of unashamedly geeky nostalgia. As I’ve mentioned before, in the early 1970s I started collecting the science fiction magazines Galaxy…
Leave a CommentThe disappearance of Science Fiction Monthly in 1976 left a void in the UK. While New English Library’s SFM never really escaped from its teenage boy bedroom…
3 CommentsI’ve chosen the second issue of the 70s British SF magazine Science Fiction Monthly because that’s the one that started it all off for me…
24 CommentsMy last post about the magazine Worlds of If generated quite a bit of interest so I thought I’d post a few more covers so…
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