We’ve already seen a couple of Space Western planets – ripping off Shane and The Magnificent Seven – so for the episode The Young Lords it’s nice to see Glen A. Larson and Donald Bellisario giving us a Space Medieval Fantasy planet for a change.
Tag: science fiction
Escape on Venus: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Review
This installment was published in Fantastic Adventures between 1941 and 1942 just as our world was readying itself for a global war, and elements of this certainly slip into Burroughs’ writings.
Moon Zero Two (1969) – Review
Moon Zero Two represents Hammer Films one and only foray into futuristic storytelling and it’s easily one of their weirdest entries. Directed by Roy Ward Baker, a man who helmed such classics as A Night to Remember and The Quatermass and the Pit, this sci-fi western tackles space exploration in the far-flung future of the…
Carson of Venus: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Serialized in Argosy Magazine in 1938, Carson of Venus is a not too subtle attack on Nazi Germany. Though the book has all the romance and adventure one expects in a book by Edgar Rice Burroughs it also includes some of his more scathing political commentaries. In such books as The Moon Men, and even this…
Battlestar Galactica: The Magnificent Warriors – Review
In The Magnificent Warriors we find writer/creator Glen A. Larson still lifting elements from popular movies, and in this case it’s back to westerns with a lame rip-off of The Magnificent Seven.