Friday, May 17, 2019

Friday's "Forgotten" Books and More: the links to the reviews: 17 May 2019

This week's books and more, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from); certainly, most weeks we have a few not at all forgotten titles...if I've missed your review or someone else's, please let me know in comments.

The coincidental inclusion of a review of Herman Wouk's least forgotten novel, The Caine Mutiny, might be forgiven on this day of the announcement of his death, 10 days before his 104th birthday. 

Patricia Abbott: Broken Harbor by Tana French


Frank Babics: Who Can Replace a Man? aka The Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss 


Mark Baker: Murder in Little Italy by Victoria Thompson


Brad Bigelow: The Bloater by Rosemary Tonks


Paul Bishop: W. Glenn Duncan 1940-2019


Les Blatt: The Exploits of the Patent Leather Kid by Erle Stanley Gardner


Joachim Boaz: The World Menders by Lloyd Biggle; The Sudden Star by Pamela Sargent; The Lost Face by Josef Nesvadba (translated by Iris Urwin)


John Boston: Amazing Stories: Fact and Science Fiction, June 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli


Ben Boulden: Call Me Hazard by "Frank Wynne" (Brian Garfield); Closeup by Len Deighton 


Brian Busby: An Army Doctor's Romance by Grant Allen


Steve Case: The Deep by John Crowley


Ellison Cooper: The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer


Hector DeJean: The Man in a Cage by (Jack aka) John Holbrook Vance


Martin Edwards: The Name of Annabel Lee by Julian Symons


Peter Enfantino: Atlas (proto-Marvel) horror comics, April 1952


Will Errickson: Finishing Touches by Thomas Tessier


José Ignacio Escribano: Big Sister by Gunnar Staalensen (tranlated by Don Bartlett)


Olman Feelyus: Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter 


Mark Finn: "The God in the Bowl" by Robert E. Howard


Paul Fraser: Astounding Science-Fiction, November 1943, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.


John Grant: The Liar's Girl by Catherine Ryan Howard; Good Morning, Darkness by Ruth Francisco


Aubrey Hamilton: She Came Back by Patricia Wentworth


Rich Horton: The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackery; Roger Zelazny capsule reviews; Alter S. Reiss stories; The Ghost Brigades and The Lost Colony by John Scalzi 


Jerry House: Zane Grey Comics #246, 1949: Thunder Mountain adapted


Kate Jackson: A Knife for Harry Dodds by "George Bellairs" (Harold Blundell); Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie 


Tracy K: The Iron Gates by Margaret Millar; April reading


Colman Keane: "Sweet Little Hands" by Lawrence Block


George Kelley: The Great SF Stories #9 (1947) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg


Joe Kenney: Chase by Norman Daniels


Rob Kitchin: The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan; The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk


B. V. Lawson: A Bleeding of Innocents by Jo Bannister


Evan Lewis: "Tarzan" aka "Tarzan and the Tarmangani", a 1940s Tarzan comic book prose filler/mailing permit content attributed to Edgar Rice Burroughs, ghostwriter unknown


Steve Lewis: "Child of the Green Light" by Leigh Brackett, Super Science Stories February 1942, edited by Alden H. Norton; Saturday Night Dead by Richard Rosen; "The Eyes of Countess Gerda" by May Edginton, The Story-Teller, December 1911


John F. Norris: The Perfect Alibi by Christopher St. John Sprigg


John O'Neill: Davy by Edgar PangbornTea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy


Matt Paust: The Last Supper by Charles McCarry


James Reasoner: The Land of Mist by "Arthur Quiller" (Kenneth Bulmer)


Gerard Saylor: The Night of the Soul Stealer by Joseph Delaney


Jack Seabrook and Peter Enfantino: DC war comics, December 1974 (and the best of 1974)


Steven H Silver: George Scithers (editor of Amra, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales)


Victoria Silverwolf: Worlds of Tomorrow, February 1964, edited by Frederik Pohl


Kerrie Smith: City of the Sun by David Levien


"TomCat": The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage by Enid Blyton


David Vineyard: Strip for Murder by Richard S. Prather

2 comments:

Jack Seabrook said...

Thanks, Todd. I was on a few planes this week and read a collection from 2010 called "Los Angles Noir." It was good, and I especially liked a Margaret Millar story called "The People Across the Canyon." I am getting more and more drawn into reading her work.

Todd Mason said...

You can do worse.

Check out this special blogging week emphasis on Millar:
http://pattinase.blogspot.com/2012/06/fridays-forgotten-books-june-1-2012.html

And as always, thank you.