In the talk I gave for ArtNight, there was a whole type of board game that I didn’t really mention, and that’s partly because it Read More »
Category: Nick Smith
Outgrowing the Cafeteria: LASFS
Over the years, the meetings of the now-independent Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society got bigger. As some of the younger fans went on to their Read More »
Caltech Writers: Part II
There have been a number of science fiction and fantasy writers with ties to Caltech, but from the 1960s on, three have stood out, in Read More »
Clifton’s Cafeteria: For the Hungry and the Creative
Forrest Ackerman and Ray Bradbury at a reunion of the early members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society at Clifton’s Cafeteria, 1999(Image courtesy of Read More »
Science Fiction after Frankenstein
The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne, was inspired by the balloon technology developed by Thaddeus Lowe. So, where was the science fiction of the nineteenth Read More »
Early Fandom in Science Fiction
Ray Garcia Capella (1933-2010). Logo Art for Science Fiction League, the earliest science fiction fan organization in Los Angeles. Pen and ink. (Courtesy of the Read More »
Caltech Writers: Part I
One of the greatest overlaps between science and science fiction over the past century has been Caltech. Several great SF writers have spent part or Read More »
It’s Alive!!
Two centuries ago, this year, a single book created a whole new genre, that of what we now call science fiction. The book was Frankenstein, Read More »
A Final Walk
By the late 1930s, there were only a handful of Civil War veterans left in Pasadena. Unlike in earlier days, there were no big groups Read More »
Give Us a Flag: African American Civil War Soldiers
…And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to Read More »
