Sunday's Retro-Spectro

Your Humble Scribe Has To Be Abstemious Here

For it would be far too easy to forge ahead and create a 300 word Intro, with all sorts of witty quips and obscure pop culture references - avoiding any mention of flamethrowers, as otherwise R. J. MacReady tends to insert himself into the conversation - that inevitably prolong what was supposed to be a mere skeleton introduction to the collection of links.

     There, I've lost both the thread and the plot.  Allow me to cattle-prod Art into wakefulness - 

"Ticket collectors of the future were utterly ruthless ..."

     I've no idea what date this is from, although Poul Anderson and Lester Del Ray were both widely recognised sci-fi authors by the Fifties.  Also, it's unusual for an attractive - and as per standard, under-dressed - young woman to be 1) wielding a weapon and/or 2) seeing off a man in the pulp magazines of the time.  Conrad unsure if heels are suitable footwear in micro-gravity, however -

      Okay, that's the clickbaity picture over with, let's now set up a panoply* of links to past editions of BOOJUM!

2020

https://comsatangel2002.blogspot.com/2020/07/mars.html

2019

https://comsatangel2002.blogspot.com/2019/07/on-scene-with-langoustine.html

2018

https://comsatangel2002.blogspot.com/2018/07/rocking-it-with-rockford.html

2017

https://comsatangel2002.blogspot.com/2017/07/so-you-want-to-be-rock-and-roll-star.html

2016

https://comsatangel2002.blogspot.com/2016/07/o-fearful-responsibility-pressure_25.html

2015

https://comsatangel2002.blogspot.com/2015/07/its-private-pike-on-motorbike.html

2014

https://comsatangel2002.blogspot.com/2014/07/an-early-start.html

2013

https://comsatangel2002.blogspot.com/2013/07/if-i-said-empire.html

*  This use of obscure or unusual language is why people love me so much**.

**  I tell myself.