Getting Some G-stuff Done

Since it is about 43° outside, I figured I'd get some writing done.

I just completed a Japan travel article for G-FAN magazine and sent it off to J. D. Lees. Since I have a "vast accumulation of Japan travel stuff", I might as well put them to good use for the readers.

I did one for the current issue, which has already hit the mail boxes and newsstands. 

Here's the cover of the current issue by Bob Eggleton:

And here's my contribution to the issue:

Following publication, I received this nice note from Mike Bogue:

Hey, Armand. Hope all is well. I liked your article in the latest G-FAN -- it's good to see you back in G-FAN's pages. Hope your retirement is going well.

New Book: "Apocalypse Then"

A friend dating back to my G-FAN days has published a new book in paperback.

The title of the book is Apocalypse Then (a play on the title of a Robert Duvall/Marlon Brando war movie) by Mike Bogue (ISBN-13: 978-1476668413 and ISBN-10: 1476668418),

The cover is by another friend dating back to my G-FAN days, Todd Tennant.

The book is a look back at atomic science-fiction movies from 1951 to 1967 from both sides of the Pacific.

Here's the synopsis from Amazon.com:

The United States, the only country to have dropped the bomb, and Japan, the only one to have suffered its devastation, understandably portray the nuclear threat differently on film. American science fiction movies of the 1950s and 1960s generally proclaim that it is possible to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle. Japanese films of the same period assert that once freed the nuclear genie can never again be imprisoned. This book examines genre films from the two countries released between 1951 and 1967 including Godzilla (1954), The Mysterians (1957), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), On the Beach (1959), The Last War (1961) and Dr. Strangelove (1964) to show the view from both sides of the Pacific."

The book is available for pre-order at Amazon.com.

To pre-order, go here.