by Howard Zimmerman | Oct 10, 2013 | Star Wars, Starlog
Back in the day, when I was editor in chief of Starlogmagazine, we did extensive coverage of all “star-related” things, especially Trek and Wars. We covered Star Wars from the time the first movie was in early production. We interviewed...
by Howard Zimmerman | Oct 8, 2013 | Adaptation, Graphic Novels, Upcoming Books
It’s an exciting time for Z File, as we’ve just signed contracts with two new clients, North River Press and Zenith Press, and will be producing new nonfiction graphic novels for them. The success of graphic nonfiction has been an eye-opener to traditional book...
by Howard Zimmerman | Sep 4, 2013 | Publishing, Science Fiction, Tribute
The future died two days ago, with the passing of science-fiction giant and legend Frederick Pohl. Pohl was the last of the original Futurians, the direct link back to Hugo Gernsback and the beginnings of American science fiction. He was part of the first sci-fi fan...
by Howard Zimmerman | Aug 30, 2013 | Comic Books, Publishing, Rock Scene Magazine, Starlog
The late 1970s and early 1980s saw the greatest explosion of science fiction since the 1940s, when the genre had found its first audience here in America. In 1977, Starlog magazine published a preview of an upcoming new space-opera that was causing a buzz, a little...
by Howard Zimmerman | Aug 22, 2013 | Isaac Asimov, Publishing
The first project I did with Byron Preiss was called ”The Bank Street Collections.” They were four paperback anthologies filled with graphic adaptations of genre stories—science fiction, horror, mystery, and fantasy—that were produced in conjunction with the Bank...
