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Your time machine to 55 years ago: Science Fact and Fiction LBJ has stepped into the shoes of his assassinated predecessor, JFK.

Galactic Journey

Imagine living at the dawn of the New Wave of science fiction and fantasy. The Gemini and Voskhod space programs have begun, and the Moon Race is hot. Dr. Strangelove has graced the silver screen. Joanna Russ and Ursula K. Le Guin are promising new science fiction authors. Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, and the Avengers are bursting onto the comics scene. What would i

t be like to actually BE there, experiencing life, the movies, the books, the music, day by day? The Traveler and his team live in 1966, regularly commuting 55 years into the future to write about then-contemporary science fiction and fantasy, particularly fiction found in magazines. But that's not all there is to life 55 years ago! So expect to read about the movies, the space shots, the politics, the music, and much more! There is nothing like the Journey anywhere else in the universe. Come jump through the portal and see a world you may but dimly remember, or which you may never have seen before, but without which your time could never have been...

Brian has got an excellent review of the latest   anthology—it's not what you think!
08/09/2025

Brian has got an excellent review of the latest anthology—it's not what you think!

by Brian Collins The Man from Providence Late last month, the amazing Cora Buhlert covered a recent collection of some of Clark Ashton Smith's dark-hued fantasy, with Zothique. Ballantine and editor Lin Carter have given H. P. Lovecraft a similar treatment, although in the case of Lovecraft there is...

Andrea Castaneda is back, and even though she's over 30, we think you can trust her review of... GAS-S-S-S!
04/09/2025

Andrea Castaneda is back, and even though she's over 30, we think you can trust her review of... GAS-S-S-S!

By Andrea Castañeda They say youth is wasted on the young. And this movie certainly makes a strong case for it. But while I can see it as an ode to hippie culture, the film falls flat at exploring where it could go when rigid traditions are gone. As pictured left to right, Cilla, Cole, … Continue...

The latest Analog   wouldn't be worth picking up, save for one terrific piece...
02/09/2025

The latest Analog wouldn't be worth picking up, save for one terrific piece...

by Gideon Marcus What's in a name? I was on a panel this weekend at a small convention.  The topic was spaceflight, and whether it will ever be economical to send humans out into the cosmos.  And if it never is, must humanity try anyway?  One of my colleagues forcefully expressed his opinion that...

Dr. Fiona Moore has a lovely report on the latest   film -- TOOMOROW!
02/09/2025

Dr. Fiona Moore has a lovely report on the latest film -- TOOMOROW!

It may not be the successor to The Monkees that it wants to be, but Tomorrow is a feel-good, cheerful flick about young people and aliens.

If you live in Southern California... or anywhere in America, really, one item has stayed in the news this summer—the tr...
28/08/2025

If you live in Southern California... or anywhere in America, really, one item has stayed in the news this summer—the trial of Charles Manson. George Pritchard has all the details:

Tonight is Science Fiction Theater!  Don't miss out on readings from the latest T-Negative and some excellent selections featuring the Young Traveler's favorite heartthrob… Tune in at 7PM Pacific! A Death In The Family by George Pritchard It has been roughly one year since seven people in Los Ang...

By the way, Cora's piece on the new Clark Ashton Smith   collection is pretty terrific:
26/08/2025

By the way, Cora's piece on the new Clark Ashton Smith collection is pretty terrific:

by Cora Buhlert The Best of Fantasy Past and Present I have sung the praises of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series and the commitment of editor Lin Carter and publisher Betty Ballantine to bring the best fantasy of yesteryear back into print before. In fact, not quite two weeks ago, I reviewed Dery...

Sometimes, the stuff we cover is... out there:
22/08/2025

Sometimes, the stuff we cover is... out there:

Two films that have come in the World Cinema slot recently are of possible interest to the Journey. One from Czechoslovakia & one from here in Britain.

This month's Galactoscope round-up of   offers up some familiar names, some new names, and heights that don't exactly so...
20/08/2025

This month's Galactoscope round-up of offers up some familiar names, some new names, and heights that don't exactly soar along with depths that don't precisely plump. See what's worth your six bits, and what should be left on the shelf this August!

Are you finding us from Worldcon? Join us in Portal 55 (a great deal of DISCORD there…) for weekly broadcasts and perennial discussion! This month's Galactoscope round-up of science fiction offers up some familiar names, some new names, and heights that don't exactly soar along with depths that do...

The best part of the latest issue of Amazing   isn't the Piers Anthony serial, but the...
12/08/2025

The best part of the latest issue of Amazing isn't the Piers Anthony serial, but the...

by John Boston The September Amazing has a new and rather pleasing look.  Editor White recently announced that he had wrested control of the magazine’s visual presentation from Sol Cohen and would be using American artists and dropping the former bulk purchases of covers from European magazines.....

Our latest   is barely in the class, but still an interesting endeavor:  Feudal!
10/08/2025

Our latest is barely in the class, but still an interesting endeavor: Feudal!

by Gideon Marcus Fish or fowl? Not too long ago, I picked up an interesting-looking game from a local hobby store.  Sitting next to a number of other "bookshelf" games with leatherette-style boxes designed to look pretty all lined up, dimensioned like overlarge volumes—as opposed to more luridly ...

Straight from West Germany, a   /   paperback boom is beginning!
06/08/2025

Straight from West Germany, a / paperback boom is beginning!

by Cora Buhlert A Marriage of Necessity For more than a hundred years, the two great German shipping companies Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft, Hapag for short, founded in Hamburg in 1847, and Norddeutscher Lloyd AG, founded in Bremen in 1857, have been rivals. My father, grand...

I'm pretty proud of this piece, reviewing Harlan Ellison's review of The Vast Wasteland that is television, 1968-1970...
04/08/2025

I'm pretty proud of this piece, reviewing Harlan Ellison's review of The Vast Wasteland that is television, 1968-1970...

by Gideon Marcus My World and Welcome to It Have you ever found that if you read too much Harlan Ellison, you end up sounding like the guy?  That same glib, hip, outraged polemic dripping with occasional yiddish and modisms.  It's cool for a while, but it ultimately gets a little tiresome.  That'...

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