Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 16” features the works of one of the most underrated sci-fi- authors of the 1950s, Rog Phillips.  Born in 1909, Phillips (Roger Phillip Graham) would begin his career later in life, publishing his first story “Let Freedom Ring!” in 1945. But once started he became impossible to stop.  He was..

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 17” features the works of one of the best science fiction authors of all time, the wonderful Edmond Hamilton.  He was the absolute master of interstellar thrills and many other sub-genres of science fiction.  Hamilton has long been popular with Armchair Fiction readers...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 18” spotlights one of pulpdom’s favorite science fiction authors, Don Wilcox.  He was sometimes known as Raymond A. Palmer’s right hand man.  We can’t help but think that Don Wilcox was a huge fan of old horror films and science fiction movie serials.  His stories just reek of it.  They’re filled with...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 19” features the sensational stories of an unjustly neglected and highly underrated science fiction author, David Wright O’Brien.  O’Brien (1918-1944) had a deep love of writing, so much so that he continued his passion even after enlisting in the Air Force during World War II.  Sadly, he died in a bombing raid over Berlin at the age of twenty-six.  This volume contains many of his best stories...

RETURN OF CHANDU (1934) Bela Lugosi, Maria Alba; CITY OF LOST MEN (1935) Kane Richmond, Bill Boyd; ISLAND CAPTIVES (1937) Eddie Nugent, Joan Barclay; TARZAN’S REVENGE (1938) Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holme.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

(1935, Upgraded 3/21/21) Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardewicke, Edward Chapman, Margaretta Scott, Sophie Stewart. The screens adaptation of H. G. Wells futuristic tales of man's survival after a series of wars and catastrophes. Final segment involving "the space gun" is...

(1940, Updated 3/21/25) Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton, Anne Gwynne. Frank Shannon.  It's Flash against Ming again as the Purple Death threatens the Earth.  This horrible, Earth-threatening disease is believed to be the evil machination of that dastardly scoundrel...

COUNTERBLAST (1948) Mervyn Johns, Robert Beatty, Nova Pilbeam.  Grim germ warfare sci-fi thriller about an escaped WWII Nazi doctor and his sinister plot to bring the Nazis into world domination.  He murders and then impersonates an Australian doctor so he can work on his devilish plans right in the heart of a small English town.  His objective:  to use a new super-disease against Germany’s enemies...

(1950, updated 5/14/24) Laurette Luez, Allan Nixon, Joan Shawlee, Johann Peturrson, Judy Landon, John Merrick. Prehistoric babes battle giants and dragons during ancient times. Nixon is captured by the drop-dead gorgeous Luez and her tribe of cave babe beauties, who eventually realize the importance of having a good man around.  The best scene is where Nixon battles an enormous...

(1953) Ted Cooper, Noreen Nash. No classic, but this is a good, underrated little 'B' sci-fi opus about a group of people that find themselves pitted against an alien from outer space in the confines of a lonely observatory...