When it comes to adaptations of classic monsters Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is only surpassed by Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and that is mainly because most films portray the monster as a mindless brute, which is not the way he was depicted in the original novel.
Tag: science fiction
Swords of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Welcome back John Carter! With the eighth book in the Barsoom series the narrative switches back to the character who started it all; released in 1936, in the pages of Blue Book, this six part serial was the first time we’d had a John Carter centric story since Warlord of Mars.
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) – Review
Long before Doc Brown was installing a time-travelling device inside a DeLorean Professor, Ned Brainard was outfitting his Model T with an anti-gravity material in this Disney classic from 1961which is a perfect example of the trope of the befuddled scientist that the movie was named after and Fred MacMurray played the part brilliantly, and…
A Fighting Man of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
The only thing possibly more dangerous than love at first sight is walking through a palace garden on Mars. In this seventh book in the Martian Tales by Burroughs, first released in the pages of Blue Book Magazine in 1930, we find our hero falling immediately for a pretty face, and said pretty face is…
The Master Mind of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
The Martian tales by Edgar Rice Burroughs can almost be considered an anthology series by this point; in the first few books we followed the adventures of Earthman John Carter as he explored this new world while falling in love with the beautiful Dejah Thoris