Re: Alert - there is a Facebook group "Retro Rockets"

Alert - there is a Facebook group "Retro Rockets"
It is very busy and full of graphics.
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Retro Rockets is a group for lovers of old time pulp, comics and film science fiction and nostalgic fans of old time rocket ships, ray guns and such. And for publishing our own “pulp”, Solar Stories. We want to keep this a fun retreat for everybody. This group is a pulp science fiction fan group, mostly the 1940s PLANET STORIES/CAPTAIN FUTURE/Doc Smith/Jack Williamson type and TV series like TOM CORBETT SPACE CADET, but also includes earlier Edgar Rice Burroughs sword-and-planet style romances, and classic 50s-60s writers like Heinlein, Asimov, James White, A Bertram Chandler, Keith Laumer, etc. In the 1940s universe, all nine (including Pluto, Dr Tyson!) planets were inhabited, Earth colonies existed on most of them by 1980, and you could get anywhere in the Solar System by rocket ship in a few days - if not hours. Mars was a red desert world with ancient ruins hiding lost races and superscientific secrets and Venus was mostly ocean with a few prehistoric jungle continents - with dinosaurs! The great writers of that time included Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Brackett, CL Moore, and even Ray Bradbury's earliest works.