Author: Greg Hatcher

Prior to his untimely passing in October of 2021, Greg Hatcher was a longtime columnist and author and the primary founder of Atomic Junk Shop; all of the other founding contributors were invited by him. His Author's bio at the time of his death follows. Greg has been writing for one outlet or another since 1992. He was a contributing editor at WITH magazine for over a decade and during that time was a three-time winner of the Higher Goals Award for children's writing; once for fiction and twice for non-fiction. Following that, he did a weekly column for Comic Book Resources as one of the rotating features on the Comics Should Be Good! blog for eleven years, before moving on to this current gig at Atomic Junk Shop. He also teaches writing in the Young Authors classes offered as part of the YMCA's Afterschool Arts Program in west Seattle, for students in the 6th through the 12th grade. A fan of pulp fiction ever since he discovered the Doc Savage paperback reprints from Bantam Books in the 1970s, he has contributed a number of action-adventure stories to various 'new pulp' anthologies in recent years. Likewise a lifelong mystery fan, he has also written Nero Wolfe pastiches for the Wolfe Pack Gazette and several Sherlock Holmes adventures for the Airship 27 CONSULTING DETECTIVE series. He lives in Burien, Washington, with his wife Julie, their cat Magdalene, and ten thousand books and comics.

Greg Hatcher

I Have Arrived.

By Greg Hatcher January 10, 2021 January 10, 2021 itemprop="discussionURL"6

I was acknowledged by a hero of mine. After this, everything else is downhill.

Greg Hatcher

Happy Science Fiction Day!

By Greg Hatcher January 3, 2021 January 3, 2021 itemprop="discussionURL"7

As I write this, it is National Science Fiction Day, and readers are being asked to name their all-time favorite piece of SF. Here’s mine.

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Another Meme Thing: Four at Fourteen

By Greg Hatcher December 26, 2020 January 18, 2021 itemprop="discussionURL"21

There’s this thing going around the net that I decided would make good column fodder. “Four comics you bought and read at age fourteen.”

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Character-Based Headcanon

By Greg Hatcher December 12, 2020 December 20, 2020 itemprop="discussionURL"25

This is just a goof. A fan thing. Full of nerdity. Be warned.

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Grail Quests Redux

By Greg Hatcher December 5, 2020 December 6, 2020 itemprop="discussionURL"7

In which your humble correspondent knocks a few items off the short list, and reminisces about how they got there in the first place.

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“Real Things” #3: A Nice Holiday Story About A Killer Virus

By Greg Hatcher November 29, 2020 January 17, 2021 itemprop="discussionURL"8

A tale of pandemic life on the front lines. No pop culture references to speak of this week but I wanted to write up this story anyway.

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Backroads Bookscouting: Last Hurrah on the Olympic Peninsula

By Greg Hatcher November 22, 2020 June 25, 2021 itemprop="discussionURL"8

Amazingly, before the car broke down and before the governor reinstated all the coronavirus restrictions, we did get in a small, safe, and socially-distanced bookscouting trip.