Stories from the Golden Age Blog

In the story All Frontiers Are Jealous, the action takes place in Sudan, which is located in northeast Africa and is roughly twenty-five percent the size of America. Sudan is bordered by Egypt and Uganda and the Uganda Railway is one of the railways that is connected to Sudan. The story behind the creation of this transportation link was not only courageous, but at times, deadly. 

In the story, Destiny's Drum, the action takes place on the island of Kamling, nestled in the Banda Sea.

Blazing six-shooters and galloping horses. Screams in a fog shrouded alley. Green-skinned aliens towering over a scantily clad woman. Sleek silver spaceships cutting a path across the star specked universe. Tales of adventure in the far-flung Orient. These are but some of the indelible images that thrilled a generation of pulp magazine readers during its heyday of the ‘30s and ‘40s.

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