by Howard Zimmerman | Aug 21, 2013 | Isaac Asimov, Publishing, Science Fiction, Tribute
As I was saying. . . . My first assignment as an assistant editor at Starlog Magazine was to edit an essay by the great Isaac Asimov on the possibility of actual faster-than-light travel. I read through its 5 or 6 typewritten pages, made some notes, and went...
by Howard Zimmerman | Aug 19, 2013 | Comic Books, Isaac Asimov, Rock Scene Magazine, Starlog
In 1976 I was still teaching third grade in the New York public school system, but I was also writing freelance for magazines about pop culture subjects, like science fiction and comics. I had a column called “The “Super” Market in Rock Scene Magazine, a...
by Howard Zimmerman | Aug 15, 2013 | Comic Books
Okay—so I’m a Boomer. Some good from that—“sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll”—and some not so good: aging, friends and relatives passing away, the assassination of the president and his brother, and Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Vietnam War. But on the plus side, I got to...
by Howard Zimmerman | Jun 11, 2013 | Dinosaurs, Publishing
My two first loves as a kid were dinos and sci-fi, and I’ve been fortunate enough to have spent most of my professional career creating books on one or the other. I recently saw Star Trek: Into Darkness, and loved it. It continues the wonderful reboot for the...
by Howard Zimmerman | May 8, 2013 | Movies, Tribute, Visionary Men
Ray Harryhausen died yesterday, on May 7th, at home in London, at the age of 92. This truly marks the end of an era. When Ray was 13 he saw Willis O’Brien’s magical stop-motion work on King Kong, and his path for life was set. I won’t mention all of his films,...
by Howard Zimmerman | Feb 13, 2013 | Military, Upcoming Books
Uncommon Valor co-author Dwight Jon Zimmerman has posted a commissioned article on the Defense Media Network detailing the heroic actions of Staff Sergeant Clinton Romesha in a remote Afghanistan valley. This was one of the largest engagements of the war and SSgt...
by Howard Zimmerman | Feb 12, 2013 | Military, Upcoming Books
Army Staff Sergeant Clinton Romesha was awarded the Medal of Honor this week and, thankfully, it was not a posthumous award. For more than half a century, the Medal was not awarded to a living serviceman. Now, during President Obama’s term in office, that trend seems...
by Howard Zimmerman | Feb 4, 2013 | History
When did human civilization begin? If we look at this as a scientific investigation (and not a quiz of Biblical stories), the best answer, based on current knowledge, is sometime during the last Ice Age—between 40,000 and 30,00 years ago—in Europe and Asia, by...
by Howard Zimmerman | Dec 12, 2012 | Artists, Publishing, Starlog
Tom Cross, Brian Froud, and Howard Zimmerman Today is the fourth anniversary of the death of my dear friend Tom Cross. At fifty-four, having never smoked a day in his life, he died of lung cancer. He was an artist, an environmentalist, a writer, a visionary, a...
by Howard Zimmerman | Nov 12, 2012 | Health Care Reform, Publishing, Zfile
The elections are over and President Obama has won an historic second term. The Affordable Care Act—yes, Obamacare—is here to stay, even if some Republican lawmakers are still in denial. The Affordable Care Act is a huge, sprawling, encompassing piece of legislation...
