"Doc" Smith," and Lupoff's forays into high-school and amateur sports. The contents range in theme from tributes to science fiction writer Frank Robinson and crime fiction writer and editor Howard Browne to endearing memoirs about the gestation of Xero, the editing of fiction by SF titan E.E. Although most of the book's 36 selections (10 original to the volume) were published in the past decade, they're awash with memories of pulp magazines, comics, radio broadcasts, and forgotten baseball players of the 1940s and '50s. Pop culture junkies with nostalgia in their hearts will drool over this third collection of essays, introductions, and reviews by Lupoff, whose bona fides in the fields of fantasy and science fiction include the editing (with his wife Pat) of Xero, the fanzine whose "All in Color for a Dime" column helped to launch modern comic book fandom in 1960.
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