Vintage Pop Fictions

American mystery fiction author Arthur B. Reeve (1880-1936) is sometimes regarded as the creator of the first scientific detective, Craig...

The Space Merchants is a science fiction novel written by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth and published in 1953. It’s also one of the g...

Midsummer Malice was Nigel Fitzgerald’s first foray into the field of detective fiction. First published in 1953 it’s actually a bit of ...

Poul Anderson’s delirious science fiction romp The High Crusade was published in 1960. The basic premise struck me as one that could hav...

Arthur J. Rees (1872-1942) was an Australian crime author who enjoyed considerable success in the years between the wars, winning the app...

Rendezvous with Rama , which appeared in 1973, is one of Arthur C. Clarke’s more celebrated novels. I read it many years ago and although...

Dead Man Twice , published in 1930, was one of the very earliest of Christopher Bush’s Ludovic Travers mysteries. Intriguingly in these e...