Note from Doc Talos author and contest judge R. Paul Sardanas: There was always something special about Doc’s small humanitarian gestures. The globe-spanning adventures were breathtaking, but he would also never fail to take the time for simple acts of caring. The recipient in Don Murphy’s tale of a very different Maximus the World’s FairContinue reading “Talos Fan Fiction Contest WINNER – Man of Tomorrow”
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Doc at the 1939 World’s Fair, Part 4, Farewell to the Fair
Anyone who reads the 1939 Doc Savage novel World’s Fair Goblin will come away with a vivid pulp snapshot of a special time and place in history. In the wonderful book 1939: The Lost World of the Fair by David Gelernter (The Free Press, 1995), there is this opening description about the impact of theContinue reading “Doc at the 1939 World’s Fair, Part 4, Farewell to the Fair”
Doc and the 1939 World’s Fair, Part 3
There was certainly huge anticipation for the opening day of the World’s Fair on April 30, 1939. An interesting note about the Doc Savage novel World’s Fair Goblin, was that in order to have it also appear in April 1939 (to take marketing advantage of Fair mania), the novel was written before the Fair itselfContinue reading “Doc and the 1939 World’s Fair, Part 3”
Doc and the 1939 World’s Fair, Part 2
I had, since first encountering the Doc Savage novel World’s Fair Goblin, daydreamed vividly about going to the Fair. A place of wonders…the World of Tomorrow. As a lover of literature, I was quite moved to see that the site of the Fair was the same place F. Scott Fitzgerald had written of with suchContinue reading “Doc and the 1939 World’s Fair, Part 2”
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