Stories from the Golden Age Blog

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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Feel like a pink tea? A pink tea is a formal tea, reception of other social gathering usually attended by politicians, military officials and the like.

In the story, Sea Fangs, disaster strikes the crew of the Bonito when a hurricane brews in the Caribbean. 

While you may have heard of hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons, you may not have realized that these are all the same thing. 

The Crossroads was originally published in 1941, shortly after L. Ron Hubbard went to serve as a Lieutenant in the Navy in the North Pacific during World War II. The tale, which may be surprising to some of you young sprouts out there, is based on real events that happened in the 1930s.

In the story, A Matter of Matter, Chuck Lambert is tricked into buying a planet that you can't sit down on because there is something wrong with its matter and gravity field. Chuck has to think fast on his feet to make the most of the situation, which brings up interesting questions about the properties of matter and gravity that you yourself may have had. So let's take a few minutes to educate, and possibly dispel some misconceptions that might be floating about on this subject.