tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290476670691353414.post6918027086781413579..comments2024-03-06T04:04:24.597-08:00Comments on The Trap of Solid Gold: "Final Mission"Steve Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15863138617383626261noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290476670691353414.post-6749037877629572352010-09-27T10:44:30.812-07:002010-09-27T10:44:30.812-07:00Jerome Bixby's issues of PLANET STORIES were e...Jerome Bixby's issues of PLANET STORIES were essentially on par with any sf magazine being published at that time, a notion that tends to amuse those who haven't read them. The earliest issues, particularly, were rather weak (Leigh Brackett, more even than Bradbury, tended to elevate any issue she was in, as did Charles Harness...but even the Bixby issues could be cursed by the leaden prose of Stanley Mullen and a few others, none I think quite as bad). Love Romances Publishing because most of the initial offers were romance-fiction pulps...PLANET was their last surviving title.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com