My latest patch-up novel under my M.E. Purfield name came out last week, The Saoirse War.
A sci-fi novel that started out being influenced by pulp sci-fi and the Warsaw Uprising but now it reflects the Palestinian Genocide. Go figure.
You can buy it here in my store:https://mepurfield.gumroad.com/l/yblokh
It's also available in major stores.
#OTD in 1893.
The first story featuring the private detective character Sexton Blake, "The Missing Millionaire", appears in Alfred Harmsworth's new boys' story paper The Halfpenny Marvel, written by Harry Blyth under the pen-name Hal Meredeth.
Sexton Blake adventures were featured in a wide variety of British and international publications from 1893 to 1978, comprising more than 4,000 stories by some 200 different authors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexton_Blake
From March 1 to October 15, 1919.
Publication runs of the American pulp magazine The Thrill Book are oriented towards the fantasy genre or science fiction. It includes the serialization of The Heads of Cerberus, written by Gertrude Barrows Bennett as Francis Stevens, with its early thematic use of an alternate time-track, or parallel worlds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thrill_Book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heads_of_Cerberus
The Thrill Books is available at LibriVoX:
https://librivox.org/group/676?primary_key=676&search_category=group&search_page=1&search_form=get_results&search_order=alpha
Amazing Stories, the American pulp magazine, launched in April 1926 and was the very first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Enjoy the fast-paced storytelling, retro art and advertising of the 20’s. via @internetarchive
Fantastic Novels was an American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine published by the Munsey Company of New York from 1940 to 1941, and again by Popular Publications, also of New York, from 1948 to 1951. It was a companion to Famous Fantastic Mysteries.
