Will Murray, who wrote for The Pulpster from its first number onward, has died. He was 73. Murray’s first appearance in these pages was “Writing Doc Savage,” published for Pulpcon 20 in 1991. He contributed to the magazine steadily across the next 35 years — on the pulp-hero revolution of 1933 and the heroic age of the pulps in number 32, on a possible (and humorous)...
Read MoreCharles H. King, who wrote under the pseudonym H. Charles Blair, died Sept. 15, 2017. He was 83. King’s sole pulp appearance was a short story, “The Rememberers,” that appeared in Future Science Fiction in May 1952. Michael J. Vassallo has a nice remembrance on his blog,...
Read MorePulpster Paul A. Carter, a science-fiction author and historian, died on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, at the age of 90. In addition to his fiction, he authored a history of pulp sf, The Creation of Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Magazine Science Fiction. He was born Sept. 3, 1926, in New Bedford, Mass., and died in Kingman, Ariz., where he lived. A short obituary appeared last week on Yellowed Perils at...
Read MoreAuthor, editor/anthologist, and pulp historian Robert Weinberg passed away Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016. He was 70. Weinberg was involved with publishing more than 100 books over the past 40 years. Locus Online notes: “His first publications of genre interest were bibliographical indexes of sf magazines, and he compiled and published many books on the field and its authors during his career,...
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