Comments on: Jack Robins and Robert A.W. Lowndes

By: Raja Thiagarajan

Raja Thiagarajan — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:27:06 +0000

Bob Jones, you can buy the ebook of _The World at the End of Time_ from Baen:

http://www.baenebooks.com/s-238-frederik-pohl.aspx?pagenum=2

By: Bob Jones

Bob Jones — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:00:22 +0000

Is there somewhere that sells The World at the End of Time as an eBook? I’ve seen some free downloads but I’d rather pay at a mainstream book seller. Amazon don’t seem to have it.

By: Todd Mason

Todd Mason — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:21:04 +0000

Charles Hornig, you might remember, had lost his gig with Gernsback, and was editing Silberkleit’s SCIENCE FICTION when he was imprisoned for his voluble WW2 pacifism, and Lowndes stepped into that sudden hole (Wollheim apparently made a show of not wanting to, but Lowndes was feeling more desperate, as his account in the Knight goes). Lowndes managed to keep the various Columbia magazines interesting till Silberkleit shut the remaining ones down in 1960, and Lowndes found himself working for the smaller Health Knowledge, where by ’62 he’d convinced them to let him launch MAGAZINE OF HORROR, which was the group leader for a set of rather good no-budget fiction magazines that ran till 1971, when Health Knowledge was taken over by a firm called Countrywide (sinister chord in light of the mortgage crisis). Not long after, Lowndes was working at Gernsback Publications, largely for SEXOLOGY (he’d started at HK editing their imitation of that magazine), and perhaps also doing some service for their other major title, RADIO-ELECTRONICS.

By: Lamont Cranston

Lamont Cranston — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:03:20 +0000

Was the play ever performed? Did Jack ever get any publication?

By: Jonathan K. Stephens

Jonathan K. Stephens — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:08:38 +0000

Hi there Mr. P.,

I really like your little trips down memory lane. On the strength of them I recently purchased, read and thoroughly enjoyed “The Way The Future Was”. I unhesitatingly recommend it to any interested in the history of SF (a nice companion is Damon Knight’s ‘The Futurians’). My understanding is that many of these blog entries will form the basis of a sequel. Any timeline on its possible completion?

All the best,

JKS

By: Dwight Decker

Dwight Decker — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:14:26 +0000

For what it’s worth, Louis Silberkleit was one of the founding partners of an outfit called MLJ Magazines (he was the “L”), which later became Archie Comics, still with us today. A recent massive reprint of the first couple of years of Archie newspaper comic strips (published by IDW) has a lengthy article in the back about the MLJ-associated SF pulps with some nice cover reproductions. The article is wildly out of place in that particular book, but it’s nice to have.