tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85254158287467120272024-03-15T21:09:26.090-04:00Sweet FreedomTodd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger1691125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-71257174807782611252024-03-10T15:54:00.028-04:002024-03-11T10:01:34.455-04:00January/February Underappreciated Music: Links to reviews and performances<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikX_WFi1C1-sDWKsBcLZTJqYRgQhrZXRX8YPobaaptApJ5J8aqyfpZzyG5_inrEgu-q-zjyFlbGNrzPjmvF1PgQ3gUEUwdnHNIqJ2ZtDEvoy57Sgx3JyMKKjHf2ijqiGhyphenhyphenbYB02GFHSJh4Kg_EYSglMxsiEnHg5l6sWO-H6SHc_r534T_H1z828-WwmAKC/s1867/Rewind%20Monk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: medium;">Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova:</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pussy Riot Closing Statements</span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> (</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">2<span>01</span>2<span>)<br /></span></span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fcindyleeberryhill%2Fposts%2Fpfbid021KmwEmrKsMCgNPpsqzNUf8b4YJsZxVAvaS6K4AHVUYkt9rM4T8THVKjESKfTFrZUl&show_text=true&width=500" width="500" height="265" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share"></iframe>">Cindy Lee Berryhill on Mojo Nixon;</a> <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/ken-katkin/trash-flow-radio-feb-10-2024-rip-mojo-nixon-hb-janet-beveridge-bean/">Berryhill on <i>Trash Flow Radio</i> on Nixon (about 35 minutes in)</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://jimmyc-stolenmoments.blogspot.com/2023/04/david-fathead-newman-davey-blue.html">Jim Cameron: Dave "Fathead" Newman: <i>Davey Blue</i></a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/03/wayne-kramer-mc5-complex-and-influential-musician-dogged-by-lucklessness">; Wayne Kramer of the MC5</a> </b></span></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b-ieV8p_ZnCYqGBFiBetuKv4Cdu9sFoQ/view"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Jeff Can</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">t</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>w</b></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span>ell: </span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">Totally Wired: Machine Music and the Fossils of the Future (on early elec</span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">tronic in</span><span>s</span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">trumen</span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">t</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">s</span></b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b-ieV8p_ZnCYqGBFiBetuKv4Cdu9sFoQ/view"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">)</span></a><span> </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK4qIAJUr7g">Annette Crossland: Elles Bailey: "Cheats and Liars"</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://oldgreycat.blog/2024/01/07/the-essentials-thirteen-by-emmylou-harris/">Jeff Gemmill: Emmylou Harris: <i>Thirteen</i>;</a> <a href="https://oldgreycat.blog/2024/01/15/first-impressions-a-time-to-grow-by-the-henry-girls/">The Henry Girls: <i>A Time to Grow</i></a><a href="https://oldgreycat.blog/2024/01/21/the-essentials-native-sons-expanded-3cd-edition-by-the-long-ryders/">; The Long Ryders:<i> Native Sons</i>;</a> <a href="https://oldgreycat.blog/2024/01/23/first-impression-crow-by-maggie-pope/">Maggie Pope: <i>Crow</i>;</a> <a href="https://oldgreycat.blog/2024/01/27/first-impressions-polaroid-lovers-by-sarah-jarosz/">Sarah Jarosz: <i>Polaroid Lovers</i>;</a> <a href="https://oldgreycat.blog/2024/01/28/first-impressions-goose-by-mol-sullivan/">Mol Sullivan: <i>Goose</i></a><a href="https://oldgreycat.blog/2024/02/03/first-impressions-live-at-starseed-studios-by-hayley-reardon/">; Hayley Reardon: <i>Live at</i> <i>Starseed Studios</i>;</a> <a href="https://oldgreycat.blog/2024/02/10/first-impressions-a-little-goes-a-long-way-by-the-castellows/">The Castellows: <i>A Little Goes a Long Way</i>;</a> <a href="https://oldgreycat.blog/2024/02/18/first-impressions-all-i-want-is-loving-you-popular-female-singers-of-the-1950s-by-steve-bergsman-book-review/">Steve Bergsman: <i>All I Want is Loving You: Popular Female Singers of the 1950s</i>:</a><a href="https://oldgreycat.blog/2024/02/24/first-impressions-never-get-your-love-behind-me-by-valerie-carter-with-the-faragher-brothers/"> AI adventures in reviewing Valerie Carter and the Faragher Brothers: "Never Get Your Love Behind Me": Chat GPT</a> and <a href="https://oldgreycat.blog/2024/02/25/first-experiences-chatgpt-vs-gemini/">Gemini</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.honest-broker.com/p/my-60-favorite-nonesuch-albums-part">Ted Gioia: My 60 Favorite Nonesuch Albums (in three parts)</a> <a href="https://www.honest-broker.com/p/my-60-favorite-nonesuch-albums-part-47c">Part 2 (in part!)</a></b></span></p><p><img alt="Music From The Morning Of The World - Album by David Lewiston | Spotify" aria-hidden="false" class="sFlh5c pT0Scc iPVvYb" height="400" src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27371815e70255fc1ed2de4b9f1" style="height: 359px; margin: 0px; max-width: 640px; width: 359px;" width="400" /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> <br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://jerryshouseofeverything.blogspot.com/search?q=hymn+time&max-results=20&by-date=true">Jerry House: Hymn Time</a></b></span></p><p><a href="https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-miles-davis-hired-john-coltrane"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jame</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">s</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Kaplan: </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>From </span><i>3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool (via </i></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Ted Gioia)</b></span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/5BbLR0NBeKw?si=CsVrHri-FRzNodUN"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Jackie Kashian: Ian Lockwood on recen</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>/current Pop Icon</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>s</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></a><span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://georgekelley.org/court-spark-by-joni-mitchell/">George Kelley: Joni Mitchell: <i>Court and Spark</i>;</a> <a href="http://georgekelley.org/the-wheel-30th-anniversary-deluxe-edition-by-rosanne-cash/">Rosanne Cash: <i>The Wheel</i>; </a><a href="http://georgekelley.org/the-girl-from-the-north-country-a-musical/"><i>Girl from the North Country: The Musical</i>;</a> <a href="http://georgekelley.org/rock-steady-1971-celebrating-starbucks-35th-anniversary/"><i>Rock Steady 1971 </i>(a Starbucks album);</a> <a href="http://georgekelley.org/our-kind-of-soul-by-daryl-hall-john-oates/">Daryl Hall and John Oates: <i>Our Kind of Soul</i>;</a> <a href="http://georgekelley.org/ladies-of-the-60s-volume-1-and-25-best-hits-of-the-1960s/"><i>25 Best Hits of the 1960s</i> [sic]</a>; <a href="http://georgekelley.org/oldies-but-goodies-volume-5-and-best-of-the-bubble-gum-years/"><i>Oldies but Goodie</i>s V. 5 (CD version); <i>Best of the Bubble Gum Years </i>[sic]</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC6NeIKSIIU">Tom Kraemer: John Hall & al.: "Power"</a></b></span></p><p><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siCwqRG9pEc&t=26s"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">K. A. Lai</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">y: "Hou</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">s</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">e Mu</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">s</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ic"</span></a></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoRqYcw7M5Q">Barry N. Malzberg: Anton Bruckner: <i>Symphony No. 3 in D Minor</i>; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Georg Solti;</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OflReU5RlZM">Bruckner: <i>Symphony No. 6</i>: Frankfort Radio Symphony conducted by Christoph Eschenbach</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/12/1959-jazz-albums-and-grammys-saturday.html">Todd Mason: 1959 Jazz Albums and the '59 Grammys</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Charle</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;">s</b><b style="font-family: georgia;"> Mingu</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">s, Abbey Lincoln</b><b style="font-family: georgia;"> &...</b></span></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/9C6RHdgN6ns?si=1H4ZbK1sUYa30Epj" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9C6RHdgN6ns/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/abrasivocultural/videos/666642228007856/">Thelonious Monk: <i>Rewind and Play</i></a><i> (link for beyond U</i></b></span><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>S)</b></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/_ErRWvhKbb8?si=M2BUmskismhoIxf4" width="480"></iframe></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=0R7sIWBqcYE">Natasha Padilla: Mary Timoney: "Don't Disappear"</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Saxsquatch69">; Saxsquatch</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/401738237773530">Wesley Paich: The Kiffness: "Numnum Cat"</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://jamesreasoner.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-middle-of-night-music-post-saloon.html">James Reasoner: Antii Martikainen: "Saloon Showdown"</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-saw-doctors-featuring-petula-clark.html">Charlie Ricci: </a><a href="https://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com/2024/01/is-creedence-clearwarter-revivals-i.html">Creedence Clearwater Revival: "I Heard It Through the Grapevine";</a> <a href="https://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com/2024/01/brinsley-schwarz-thinking-back.html">Brinsley Schwarz:<i> Thinking Back: The Anthology 1970-1975</i>;</a> </b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-saw-doctors-featuring-petula-clark.html">The Saw Doctors and Petula Clark: "Downtown";</a> <a href="https://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com/2012/08/j-d-mcpherson-signs-signifiers-2012.html">J. D. McPherson: <i>Signs and Signifiers</i></a><a href="https://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com/2024/01/muireann-bradley-i-kept-these-old-blues.html">; Muireann Bradley: <i>I Kept These Old Blues</i>;</a><a href="https://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com/2024/01/is-creedence-clearwarter-revivals-i.html"> </a><a href="https://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com/2024/02/people-i-love-you-1968.html">People!: <i>I Love You</i>;</a> <a href="https://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com/2024/02/billy-joel-turn-lights-back-on-2024.html">Billy Joel: <i>Turn the Lights Back On</i>;</a> <a href="https://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com/2014/05/arthur-alexander-lonely-just-like-me.html">Arthur Alexander: <i>Lonely Just Like Me;</i></a> <a href="https://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com/2024/02/almost-hits-spacehog-in-meantime-1996.html">Spacehog: "In the Meantime";</a> <a href="https://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com/2024/02/doc-severinsen-with-tonight-show-band.html"><i>The</i> Tonight Show <i>Band with Doc Severinsen</i></a></b></span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN5-9E2740A"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Melanie Safka and Johnny Cash: "Silver Threads and Golden Needles"</span></b></a></p><p><a href="https://thebluemoment.com/2024/02/20/oh-yoko/"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Richard </span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>W</b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">illiam</span></b><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>s</i></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">: <i>Yoko Ono: Mu</i></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>s</i></b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>ic of </i></span></b><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>t</i></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>he Mind</i></span></b></a></p>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-30682720002157848582024-03-08T16:33:00.006-05:002024-03-09T20:11:52.475-05:00SSW/FFB: HITCHCOCK IN PRIME TIME edited by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. and Martin H. Greenberg (Avon 1985)<img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="320" height="640" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9ut2XTtkuDc/XMdKmj1YAiI/AAAAAAAAVZY/TVpiOernEkwLF3v6Y2YSxZOru6fLdqmYgCLcBGAs/s640/hitchcock%2Bin%2Bprime%2Btime.jpg" width="409" /><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Avon Books, August 1985, 0-380-89673-7, $9.95, 356pp, trade pb, anthology) <a href="https://archive.org/details/hitchcockinprime0000unse/mode/2up"><i>Can be read here.</i></a></span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 Introduction </span></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">· </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n08/n08771.htm#A21">Henry Slesar</a><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"> </span></span></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">· in</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i>The 1955-56 Season </i></span></b></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">8 · And So Died Riabouchinska ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n01/n01052.htm#A107" style="background-color: white;">Ray Bradbury</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· ss</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k08/k08813.htm#A10" style="background-color: white;"><i>The Saint Detective Magazine</i> June/July 1953</a></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">23 · The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n02/n02898.htm#A189" style="background-color: white;">Stanley Ellin</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· ss</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k03/k03959.htm#A9" style="background-color: white;"><i>Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine</i> #78, May 1950</a></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">44 · Momentum ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n10/n10429.htm#A90" style="background-color: white;">Cornell Woolrich</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· nv</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k04/k04567.htm#A3" style="background-color: white;"><i>Detective Fiction Weekly</i> December 14 1940</a><span style="background-color: white;">, as “Murder Always Gathers Momentum”</span></span></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The 1956-57 Season</span></i></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">77 · The Better Bargain ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n02/n02486.htm#A102" style="background-color: white;">Richard Deming</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· ss</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k06/k06512.htm#A11" style="background-color: white;"><i>Manhunt</i> April 1956</a></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">88 · The Hands of Mr. Ottermole ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n01/n01341.htm#A62" style="background-color: white;">Thomas Burke</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· nv</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k10/k10203.htm#A1" style="background-color: white;"><i>The Story-teller</i> February 1929</a></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">109 · The Dangerous People ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n01/n01211.htm#A106" style="background-color: white;">Fredric Brown</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· ss</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k03/k03758.htm#A12" style="background-color: white;"><i>Dime Mystery Magazine</i> March 1945</a><span style="background-color: white;">, as “No Sanctuary”</span></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">121 · Enough Rope for Two ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n04/n04633.htm#A96" style="background-color: white;">Clark Howard</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· ss</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k06/k06513.htm#A10" style="background-color: white;"><i>Manhunt</i> February 1957</a></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">137 · Suburban Tigress ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n09/n09553.htm#A69" style="background-color: white;">Lawrence Treat</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· ss</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k00/k00322.htm#A11" style="background-color: white;"><i>Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine</i> July 1957</a></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">152 · The Day of the Execution ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n08/n08771.htm#A21" style="background-color: white;">Henry Slesar</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· ss</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k00/k00322.htm#A10" style="background-color: white;"><i>Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine</i> June 1957</a></span></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>The 1957-58 Season</b></i></span></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">163 · The $2,000,000 Defense ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n06/n06418.htm#A122" style="background-color: white;">Harold Q. Masur</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· ss</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k03/k03968.htm#A5" style="background-color: white;"><i>Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine</i> May 1958</a></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">181 · The Dusty Drawer ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n06/n06815.htm#A100" style="background-color: white;">Harry Muheim</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· ss</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k03/k03024.htm#A10" style="background-color: white;"><i>Collier’s</i> May 3 1952</a></span></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>The 1959-60 Season</i></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">199 · Backward, Turn Backward ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n02/n02354.htm#A1" style="background-color: white;">Dorothy Salisbury Davis</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· nv</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k03/k03964.htm#A2" style="background-color: white;"><i>Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine</i> #127, June 1954</a></b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>The 1962-63 Season</b></i></span></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">225 · Hangover ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n06/n06074.htm#A63" style="background-color: white;">John D. MacDonald</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· ss</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k03/k03302.htm#A11" style="background-color: white;"><i>Cosmopolitan</i> July 1956</a></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">238 · Hangover ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n08/n08213.htm#A1" style="background-color: white;">Charles W. Runyon</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· ss</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k06/k06515.htm#A14" style="background-color: white;"><i>Manhunt</i> December 1960</a> </span></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The 1963-64 Season</span></b></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">254 · A Home Away from Home ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n00/n00896.htm#A57" style="background-color: white;">Robert Bloch</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· ss</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k00/k00325.htm#A16" style="background-color: white;"><i>Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine</i> June 1961</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">264 · Terror Town ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n07/n07717.htm#A17" style="background-color: white;">Ellery Queen</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· nv</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k01/k01171.htm#A7" style="background-color: white;"><i>Argosy</i> August 1956</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">294 · Anyone for Murder? ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n07/n07988.htm#A26" style="background-color: white;">Jack Ritchie</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· ss</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k00/k00328.htm#A1" style="background-color: white;"><i>Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine</i> January 1964</a> </b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>The 1964-65 Season</b></i></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">310 · One of the Family ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n10/n10490.htm#A33" style="background-color: white;">James Yaffe</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· ss</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k03/k03966.htm#A4" style="background-color: white;"><i>Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine</i> May 1956</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">330 · Death Scene ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n06/n06988.htm#A17" style="background-color: white;">Helen Nielsen</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· ss</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k03/k03973.htm#A5" style="background-color: white;"><i>Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine</i> May 1963</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">342 · Winter Run ·</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n04/n04479.htm#A6" style="background-color: white;">Edward D. Hoch</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">· ss</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k00/k00328.htm#A13" style="background-color: white;"><i>Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine</i> January 1965</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>For whatever reason, this rather obvious project (an anthology of stories adapted by <i>Alfred Hitchcock Presents:</i> and <i>The Alfred Hitchcock Hour)</i> saw only one trade paperback edition from Avon, in 1985, toward the earlier years of the mass influx of Martin Greenberg anthologies, and coinciding with the 1985 latter-day revival of <i>Alfred Hitchcock Presents: </i>(one season broadcast on NBC, then three more seasons cablecast on the USA Network channel); the acknowledgements pages are misleading, and verge on useless, but, happily, along with Henry Slesar's introduction to the volume, the living and game writers (for some reason, Ray Bradbury chose not to) supplied brief but useful or at least interesting notes about the fiction and its adaptation, even when (as with Stanley Ellin), the writer in question has no clear firsthand memory of the adaptation (or, in his case, even seeing it). Co-editor Francis Nevins supplies afterwords for those writers who were already gone or unwilling (even John D. MacDonald, still ticked in 1985 that Shamley Productions had the odd idea of flanging together his story with one of the same title by Charles Runyon for that script, is game to let us know about this; Runyon not much less puzzled, but happy enough to get the check).</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>At least two of these stories had also made their way into "Hitchcock" anthologies I'd read in the '70s, Robert Bloch's 1961 story "A Home Away from Home" (Bloch notes that he enjoyed expanding the brief short story, an A<i>lfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine</i> Poe-inspired-contest-winner, when adapting it for the <i>AH Hour </i>adaptation; Bloch would also employ a version of the story as the framing device for his later anthology film-script for <i>Asylum</i>), in <i>Alfred Hitchcock's Noose Report </i>(1966), one of the Dell paperbacks which were essentially best-ofs from <i>AHMM</i>, and Harry Muheim's "The Dusty Drawer", which leads off Robert Arthur's brilliant 1969 anthology for Random House, <i><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2019/01/ffb-robert-arthur-editor-alfred.html">Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Month of Mystery</a> <a href="https://archive.org/details/monthofmystery0000unse/page/n7/mode/2up">(online here)</a>, </i>as well as the Dell paperback first-volume (of 2) reprint, <i>AHP: Dates with Death. </i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>A book well worth having, as well as reading, even given the odd skipping through the seasons of the original television series. One wonders if there was some intention on the part of the editors to make a more comprehensive survey of the stories adapted for the program. Additionally, it's not the worst survey of the sorts of crime fiction one could find in magazines in the (for the most part) 1950s and '60s.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Jack Seabrook corrects Muheim's memory of the previous television adaptation of his "The Dusty Drawer" in his review of the </i>AHP: <i>episode and, in passing, this anthology in <a href="https://barebonesez.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-hitchcock-project-halsted-welles.html">this </a></i><a href="https://barebonesez.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-hitchcock-project-halsted-welles.html">Bare Bones <i>post.</i></a></b></span></div>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-72723604844992614352024-02-14T04:46:00.004-05:002024-02-14T15:58:32.685-05:00SSW: Ellen Gilchrist: "Black Winter", THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, June 1995, edited by Kristine K. Rusch and Edward Ferman: Short Story Wednesday<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Patti Abbott having posted a link in her consideration of another story by my choice of SSW author this week, I've just read<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/11/books/ellen-gilchrist-dead.html"> the obituary for Ellen Gilchrist</a> (1935-2024) from the <i>New York Times</i> by one Adam Nossiter, who gives the impression of resenting having to take a lesser role as obituarist after having been four times a bureau chief in the <i>NYT</i> hierarchy, or perhaps simply resents having to write one for a National Book Award winner he doesn't approve of. Gilchrist, to my knowledge, was not a great self-promoter, and if she diminished herself in her memoirs and some commentary over the years, Nossiter seems keen on making sure that's intensified in his not-quite-screed.</b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Black Winter" (<a href="https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v088n06_1995-06/page/n9/mode/1up?view=theater">which can be read here</a>) was Gilchrist's second and last story in <i>F&SF</i>, after her charming fantasy <a href="https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v069n05_1985-11/mode/2up?q=ellen+gilchrist">"The Green Tent" in the November 1985 </a>issue (a grandmother and her grandson take the equivalent of a magic carpet ride in title device), and it's a far less cheerful item, a rather (necessarily) grim but not quite hopeless account of two survivors of a 1996 nuclear war, academics, an older woman named Rhoda (possibly not the same Rhoda who is a recurring character in earlier stories by Gilchrist) and her younger male protege Tannin, whom we meet several days after the short war, as they seek out what they can from various abandoned stores and gas stations in the midwest, keeping away from large cities in an abundance of (sensible) caution. Rhoda is writing the story in the form of a letter to her grandson, whom she hopes (but has no way of knowing if he) is still alive, in Germany; they get along, wondering if the fallout will eventually come down upon them in deadly form...and they meet up with some interesting folks with whom they can make some common cause. Rhoda had been noting with some concern the hotspots recurring in the news in 1996: Russia, Ukraine, Iran, North Korea. Things don't change so very much three decades later. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I had never picked up a copy of the June 1995 issue of <i>F&SF</i>, for whatever reason (I was moving into my last Virginia apartment, at least so far, about then), so I've just read the story for the first time tonight. I read "The Green Tent" when that issue was new, not so very long after I first read her work with "The Famous Poll at Jody's Bar" in <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i> for August 1982, one of her earlier publications.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It's a fine story, and makes its points well, and it (like "The Green Tent") has never been reprinted, as far as I can tell, anywhere but in <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?599630">an anthology in translation</a>, by the former publisher of the German edition of <i>F&SF</i> (much as "The Green Tent" has only been reprinted, as far as I see, in <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?485285"><i>Fiction</i>, the French edition of <i>F&SF</i></a>). </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I've been meaning to write Gilchrist's collection <i>The Cabal and Other Stories</i> for a good six or seven years, but I'll have to excavate that volume and finish it. It really has been a tough year on writers I admire. For more of today's short stories, please see <a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-president-of-louisiana-live-oak.html">Patti Abbott's blog, and her fine review of Gilchrist's "The Presidency of the Louisiana Live Oak Society".</a> </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And I'll seek out some less contemptuous obituaries than the <i>Times</i>'s.</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicV-ZqyKku2_WKlhPoZB-2Wp0l1BN-xIKm-BbWQcL1eU9ECqlQamwvLWXtGfgg_R6kMasYJ7mCozHsn5DZiZwN2NmBnHzkQiJma5gmP8nz8nSD1DVhn-jKdF41h29uyI0nU0rmyxSNgN-qLOLfISehOJv_xpxAmlZjglWVUS3vNFG8KXWHfKufJsHZ-Ptt" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicV-ZqyKku2_WKlhPoZB-2Wp0l1BN-xIKm-BbWQcL1eU9ECqlQamwvLWXtGfgg_R6kMasYJ7mCozHsn5DZiZwN2NmBnHzkQiJma5gmP8nz8nSD1DVhn-jKdF41h29uyI0nU0rmyxSNgN-qLOLfISehOJv_xpxAmlZjglWVUS3vNFG8KXWHfKufJsHZ-Ptt=s16000" /></span></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Contents:</i> (Edward L. Ferman, editor and publisher)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><p></p><ul><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">6 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?48388">The Green Tent</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11288">Ellen Gilchrist</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">12 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?858767">Books (<i>F&SF</i>, November 1985)</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?20077">Books (<i>F&SF</i>)</a>] • essay by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12">Algis Budrys</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">12 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?858771">Review</a>: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1900"><i>Free Live Free</i></a> by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?171">Gene Wolfe</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12">Algis Budrys</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">15 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?858772">Review</a>: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?14151"><i>The Book of Sorrows</i></a> by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?4427">Walter Wangerin, Jr.</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12">Algis Budrys</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">17 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?858773">Review</a>:<i> <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?36904">Skeleton Crew</a></i> by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?70">Stephen King</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12">Algis Budrys</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">20 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?48360">You Never Asked My Name</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?131">Brian W. Aldiss</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">34 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?48410">The Black and Tan Man</a> • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12191">Cooper McLaughlin</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">67 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?858769">Cartoon: "Enjoy the ratrace dear."</a> • interior artwork by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84161">Joseph Farris</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">68 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?48399">Six of Swords</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12127">Gregor Hartmann</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">75 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?858770">Cartoon: "Some Blondes Have More Fun in Republics Your Majesty."</a> • interior artwork by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2072">Alexis A. Gilliland</a> [as by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?70261">Alexis Gilliland</a>]</span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">76 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?48421">Sport of Kings</a> • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12176">Edward F. Shaver</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">94 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2808202">Coming Soon (<i>F&SF</i>, November 1985)</a> • essay by uncredited</span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">95 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?858768">In Which Numerous Ends (Loose) are Tied Up; Some in the Configuration of a Noose (Hangman's)</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?20177">Harlan Ellison's Watching</a>] • essay by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?25">Harlan Ellison</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">101 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?48434">See Me Safely Home</a> • (1984) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1257">Richard Wilson</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">113 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?48409">The High Purpose</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?534">Barry N. Malzberg</a> and <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?251">Carter Scholz</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">129 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?114962">The Biochemical Knife Blade</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?19317">Asimov's Essays: <i>F&SF</i></a>] • essay by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?5">Isaac Asimov</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">140 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?48363">The Persistence of Memory</a> • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1614">Gael Baudino</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">158 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?858774"><i>F&SF</i> Competition: Report on Competition 38</a> • essay by uncredited</span></b></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg97ucw8pFswgBhc-xnW5Lstx9GKMNGb8ktoPMbC2cmtFBngRQFA_jcTOOJYy7tRrRtlvCfRKF0RmiDEsttLxCxQdfU-FHzIm8-71ZMah0DWLJNz4Imaxa4bzbO3ifjMICqXknlpKhD7OEGTAZ4IqIrRNTXp2Bi4IiwoiAX6hEbCVyDxFf-0bT3EG_wyz2l" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1506" data-original-width="1017" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg97ucw8pFswgBhc-xnW5Lstx9GKMNGb8ktoPMbC2cmtFBngRQFA_jcTOOJYy7tRrRtlvCfRKF0RmiDEsttLxCxQdfU-FHzIm8-71ZMah0DWLJNz4Imaxa4bzbO3ifjMICqXknlpKhD7OEGTAZ4IqIrRNTXp2Bi4IiwoiAX6hEbCVyDxFf-0bT3EG_wyz2l=w432-h640" width="432" /></a></div><br /><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Contents:</i> (edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Edward L. Ferman, published by Ferman)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><ul><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">5 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?867113">Editorial (F&SF, June 1995)</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?20161">Editorial (<i>F&SF</i>)</a>] • essay by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?283">Kristine Kathryn Rusch</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">10 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?40377">Black Winter</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11288">Ellen Gilchrist</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">25 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?867115">Books (<i>F&SF</i>, June 1995)</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?20077">Books (<i>F&SF</i>)</a>] • essay by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?23419">Robert K. J. Killheffer</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">26 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?163340">Review</a>: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?7614"><i>Résumé with Monsters</i></a> by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1399">William Browning Spencer</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?23419">Robert K. J. Killheffer</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">29 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?163341">Review</a>: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?7360"><i>The Unnatural</i></a> by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?781">David Prill</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?23419">Robert K. J. Killheffer</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">33 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?163342">Review</a>: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?35525"><i>The Armless Maiden</i></a> by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?158">Terri Windling</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?178">Charles de Lint</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">33 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?867116">Books to Look For (<i>F&SF</i>, June 1995)</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?20057">Books to Look for</a>] • essay by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?178">Charles de Lint</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">37 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?867136">Cartoon: "You make decisions all day now it's time to relax! 'Let Fate Decide': The Ouija Menu."</a> • interior artwork by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84149">John Jonik</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">38 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?40376">Spirit Guides</a> • (1995) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?283">Kristine Kathryn Rusch</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">51 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?40375">Cruising Through Deuteronomy</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?192">Jack McDevitt</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">56 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?40374">These Beasts</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?105">Tanith Lee</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">66 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?867137">Cartoon: "Take a good look at the enemy, gentlemen."</a> • interior artwork by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84221">Arthur Masear</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">67 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?40373">Coyote Stories</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?18491">Newford</a>] • (1993) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?178" style="text-decoration-style: solid;">Charles de Lint</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">74 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?867117">Films: A Flop About a Failure</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?20061">Films (<i>F&SF</i>)</a>] • essay by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?23464">Kathi Maio</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">80 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?40378">The String</a> • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?298">Kathleen Ann Goonan</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">98 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?40372">For Richer, for Stranger</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?689">Nina Kiriki Hoffman</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">109 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?867138">Cartoon: "Since the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence doesn't seem to be getting anywhere ..."</a> • interior artwork by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84153">S. Harris</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">110 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?867118">The Fourth Dimension</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10419">A Scientist's Notebook</a>] • essay by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?109">Gregory Benford</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">122 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?40379">The Spine Divers</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?25588">Dilvermoon</a>] • novella by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1434">Ray Aldridge</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">160 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?867140">Cartoon: "You're lucky. I couldn't find anything off the rack. I have to have my suits custom made."</a> • interior artwork by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84161">Joseph Farris</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">162 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?867114">Coming Attractions (<i>F&SF</i>, June 1995)</a> • essay by uncredited</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">bep • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?867139">Cartoon: "Terrestrial, aquatic ... we're all mammals - even Dr. Quark."</a> • interior artwork by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84153">S. Harris</a></span></li></ul></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEIsDgxl71OcUI26VHQZpqGutnRUA_4CZ7Um-GNVEv9qpQblTZkKn-UvAmxcLzN1_GqBeDAkSTBUL41QxytrzsEVst_QY-rdZ2wBD-aJ30I4UevGO7jjut3iPTv5KC1YM8tYPgE-RUSfX8zlLlkiY98jFylTi6tEC3jSAk7psRQCfrVkReFt6FvfNKFif3" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEIsDgxl71OcUI26VHQZpqGutnRUA_4CZ7Um-GNVEv9qpQblTZkKn-UvAmxcLzN1_GqBeDAkSTBUL41QxytrzsEVst_QY-rdZ2wBD-aJ30I4UevGO7jjut3iPTv5KC1YM8tYPgE-RUSfX8zlLlkiY98jFylTi6tEC3jSAk7psRQCfrVkReFt6FvfNKFif3=w400-h224" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><br /></b></span></div>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-27816392559222469732024-02-04T00:03:00.013-05:002024-02-10T15:04:55.598-05:00Friday's "Forgotten" Books: THE BEST OF SHADOWS edited by Charles L. Grant (Doubleday Foundation 1988); SIXTY YEARS OF GREAT FICTION FROM PARTISAN REVIEW edited by William Phillips (Partisan Review Press 1996)<p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Two anthologies with content that is difficult to dismiss, if one was even to try.</span></b></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcS3ywzf69K-dK3GFVVnP2coWi3Id-l682IwL6K6X57WCKrreVh4D5LPauEkCNOAd2_UDAM42XBML4TJ6OBI9tSyD_UQsYJ2Kf40nvlAA6xTzNMMUknwmEYVg52C7mThtd8y0Gqo5H1rpNY8XAD4nlvqqEjKMz7cQdwJbaBNDivOpXR_4iXiPXAmYkk3V7" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="313" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcS3ywzf69K-dK3GFVVnP2coWi3Id-l682IwL6K6X57WCKrreVh4D5LPauEkCNOAd2_UDAM42XBML4TJ6OBI9tSyD_UQsYJ2Kf40nvlAA6xTzNMMUknwmEYVg52C7mThtd8y0Gqo5H1rpNY8XAD4nlvqqEjKMz7cQdwJbaBNDivOpXR_4iXiPXAmYkk3V7=w430-h640" width="430" /></a></p><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/sixtyyearsofgrea0000unse/mode/2up?q=sixty+years+of+great+fiction+from+partisan+review"><i>Archive</i></a></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/sixtyyearsofgrea0000unse/mode/2up?q=sixty+years+of+great+fiction+from+partisan+review"><i>.org:</i></a></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/sixtyyearsofgrea0000unse/mode/2up?q=sixty+years+of+great+fiction+from+partisan+review"><i>this volume online.</i></a></span></b></div><div><br /></div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.bu.edu/library/gotlieb-center/collections/partisan-review/">Online: all issues of <i>Partisan Review</i>, 1934-2003, at Boston University<br /></a></span></b><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Sixty Years of Great Fiction from Partisan Review </i>edited by William Phillips (Partisan Review Press, 1996 [or 1/97], ISBN 0-644377-5-9; $24.95. 425+xx pp, hc); jacket/pb cover painting by Helen Frankenthaler</span></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">vii * Foreword * </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Saul Bellow * </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">fw<br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">xix * Introduction * </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">William Phillips * </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in<br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">3 * Two Syllables * </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n08/n08605.htm#A23" style="background-color: white;">Ignazio Silone</a><span style="background-color: white;">; translated by </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n07/n07634.htm#A48" style="background-color: white;">Samuel Putnam</a> * ss <i>Partisan Review </i>October 1936 (V. 3#6) </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">7 * </span></b><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In Dreams Begin Responsibilities * </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n08/n08369.htm#A160" style="background-color: white;">Delmore Schwartz</a><span style="background-color: white;"> * ss </span></span></b><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k07/k07633.htm#A7" style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Partisan Review</i> December 1937</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>13 * Hurry, Hurry * </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n01/n01765.htm#A66" style="background-color: white;"><b>Eleanor Clark</b></a><span style="background-color: white;"> <b>* ss </b><b style="font-family: Tinos;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Partisan Review</i></span></b><b> January 1938 (V. 4 #2)</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>19 * Red, White, and Blue Thanksgiving * </b></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n02/n02627.htm#A24" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>John Dos Passos</b></span></a> * <b><span style="font-family: georgia;">ss </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Partisan Review</i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Winter 1939 (V. 6 #2)</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">23 * The Autobiography of Rose * Gertrude Stein * pm </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Partisan Review</i> Winter 1939 (V. 6 #2)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">26 * The Only Son * </span></b><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n03/n03047.htm#A130" style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">James T. Farrell</span></b></a> <span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>* ss <i>Partisan Review</i> Spring 1939 (V. 6 #3)</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>34 * A Goat for Azazel (A.D. 1688) * Katherine Anne Porter * ss <i>Partisan Review</i> May/June 1940 (V. 7 #3)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>42 * </b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt * Mary McCarthy * (nv) </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k07/k07633.htm#A10" style="background-color: white;"><i>Partisan Review</i> July/August 1941</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">65 * </span></b><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">J</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">osephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk * Franz Kafka; translated by Clement Greenberg * ss <i>Partisan Review</i> May/June 1942 (V.9 #3)</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">76 * </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Of This Time, of That Place * Lionel Trilling * nv </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k07/k07633.htm#A13" style="background-color: white;"><i>Partisan Review</i> January/February 1943</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">101 * </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Hand That Fed Me · </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n08/n08067.htm#A102" style="background-color: white;">Isaac Rosenfeld</a><span style="background-color: white;"> · ss </span></span></b><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k07/k07633.htm#A16" style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Partisan Review</i> Winter 1944</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">111 * </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Cass Mastern’s Wedding Ring · </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n09/n09840.htm#A142" style="background-color: white;">Robert Penn Warren</a><span style="background-color: white;"> · nv </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k07/k07633.htm#A17" style="background-color: white;"><i>Partisan Review</i> Fall 1944</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">135 * The Prison * </span></b><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n06/n06209.htm#A74" style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">André Malraux</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">; translated by </span></b><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n01/n01765.htm#A66" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><b>Eleanor Clark</b></a><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> * nv <i>Partisan Review </i>March 1948</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">141 * The Interior Castle * </span></b><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n08/n08887.htm#A200" style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jean Stafford</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> * </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">ss </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k07/k07633.htm#A22" style="background-color: white;"><i>Partisan Review </i>November/December 1946</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">151 * </span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">Two Prostitutes · </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n06/n06661.htm#A113" style="background-color: white;">Alberto Moravia</a><span style="background-color: white;">; translated by </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n03/n03361.htm#A149" style="background-color: white;">Frances Frenaye</a><span style="background-color: white;"> · ss </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k07/k07633.htm#A37" style="background-color: white;"><i>Partisan Review</i> May/June 1950</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">166 * The Jail (Nor Even Yet Quite Relinquish--) * William Faulkner * ex <a href="https://www.bu.edu/partisanreview/books/PR1951V18N5/HTML/files/assets/basic-html/index.html#479"><i>Partisan Review</i> September/October 1951 (V. 18 #5)</a> (can be read at the link) (apparently freestanding; often referred to as simply "The Jail"; from <i>Requiem for a Nun</i>, Random House 1951)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">186 * </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Gimpel the Fool · </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n08/n08652.htm#A147" style="background-color: white;">Isaac Bashevis Singer</a><span style="background-color: white;">; translated by </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n00/n00683.htm#A3" style="background-color: white;">Saul Bellow</a><span style="background-color: white;"> · ss </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/j00/j00536.htm#A56"><i>Partisan Review</i></a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k07/k07634.htm#A6">May/June 1953 (</a></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k07/k07634.htm#A6">V. 20 #3)</a></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">195 * The Magic Barrel * </span></b><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n06/n06195.htm#A145" style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bernard Malamu</span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>d</b></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">* </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">ss </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k07/k07634.htm#A10" style="background-color: white;"><i>Partisan Review</i> November/December 1954</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>206 * Seize the Day * <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n00/n00683.htm#A3">Saul Bellow</a> * na <i>Partisan Review</i> Summer 1956 (V. 23 #3)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>268 * The Renegade * </b></span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n01/n01476.htm#A75" style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Albert Camus</span></b></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>; <span style="background-color: white;"> translated by </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n07/n07001.htm#A153" style="background-color: white;">Justin O’Brien</a><span style="background-color: white;"> * ss <i>Partisan Review </i>Winter 1958 (V. 25 #1)</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">277 * Any Day Now * James Baldwin * ss <i>Partisan Review</i> Spring 1960 (V. 27 #2)</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">285 * From the Black Notebook * Doris Lessing * ex (<i>The Golden Notebook</i>, Michael Joseph 1962) <i>Partisan Review</i> Spring 1962 (V. 29 #2)</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">298 * It Always Breaks Out * Ralph Ellison * ex (<i>Three Days Before the Shooting...</i>, Random House 2010) <i>Partisan Review</i> Spring 1963 (V. 30 #1)</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">308 * The Will and the Way * Susan Sontag * ss <i>Partisan Review</i> Summer 1965 (V. 22 #3)</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">324 * Runaway * William Styron * ex (<i>The Confessions of Nat Turner</i> Random House 1967) <i>Partisan Review</i> Fall 1966 (V. 33 #4)</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">330 * Whacking Off * Philip Roth * ex (incorporated into <i>Portnoy's Complaint </i>Random House 1969) <i>Partisan Review</i> Summer 1967 (V. 34 #3)</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">339 * Mercier and Camier * Samuel Beckett * ex (<i>Mercier and Camier</i>, Grove Press [US] and Calder and Boyans [UK] 1974; French text published 1970) <i> Partisan Review</i> 1974 (V. 41 #3--in previous numbering, this would've been the Summer 1974 issue)</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">353 * Levitation * Cynthia Ozick * ss <i>Partisan Review </i>1979 (V. 46 #3)</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">362 * </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Idea of Switzerland · </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n00/n00019.htm#A56" style="background-color: white;">Walter Abish</a><span style="background-color: white;"> · nv </span><i style="background-color: white;">Partisan Review</i><span style="background-color: white;"> 1980 (V. 47 #1)</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">381 * If on a Winter's Night a Traveler * </span></span></b><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n01/n01437.htm#A121" style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Italo Calvino</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">; translated by </span></span></b><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n09/n09889.htm#A175" style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">William Weaver</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">; ex (<i>If on a winter's night a traveler </i>1979 in Italian; Harcort 1981 in English translation by Weaver) <i>Partisan Review</i> 1981 (V. 48 #2)</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">389 * One Summer's Morning in the Village * </span></span></b><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/i05/i05361.htm#A8" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Amos Oz</b></span></a><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">; translated by </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/i01/i01812.htm#A27" style="background-color: white;">Nicholas de Lange</a> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">* vi <i>Partisan Review</i> 1984 (V. 51 #4)</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">390 * Passport Photograph * </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Amos Oz; translated by Nicholas de Lange * vi <i>Partisan Review</i> 1984 (V. 51 #4)</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">392 * The Red Dwarf * </span></span></b><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n09/n09437.htm#A148" style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Michel Tournier</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">; translated by Barbara Wright * ss <i>Partisan Review</i> 1984 (V. 51 #2)</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">401 * The Feet of a King * </span></span></b><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n06/n06467.htm#A45" style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Daphne Merkin</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"> * ss </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Partisan Review </i></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">1986 (V. 53 #3)</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">411 * Proust's Tea * Norman Manea; translated by Mara Soceanu-Vamos * ss <i>Partisan Review</i> 1992 (V. 59 #1)</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">414 * Weddings * Norman Manea; translated by Cornelia Golna * ss <i>Partisan Review</i> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">1992 (V. 59 #1)</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">422 * Serafim * </span></span></b><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n09/n09414.htm#A100" style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Tatyana Tolstaya</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">; translated by Jamie Gambrell * ss </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Partisan Review</i> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">1992 (V. 59 #1)</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></b></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUNWgj3xbDiL91v_H9JoZec01au5AyvQt8rq9s06iXoNilFwNwzainRXhPbGA1VRBV3qKSwrJYV8IqOpAhGDhDQ7NQokGJs0CTO8ZjKbPXNVRTi25ZvTuTgHBLB9eoyvxPP0hjsYQP1Mkb9CVmfjFMfQa5Q47sExcYqzQntUb7LdyZAo98zzl02koKxJtS" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUNWgj3xbDiL91v_H9JoZec01au5AyvQt8rq9s06iXoNilFwNwzainRXhPbGA1VRBV3qKSwrJYV8IqOpAhGDhDQ7NQokGJs0CTO8ZjKbPXNVRTi25ZvTuTgHBLB9eoyvxPP0hjsYQP1Mkb9CVmfjFMfQa5Q47sExcYqzQntUb7LdyZAo98zzl02koKxJtS=s16000" /></span></a></div><br /><p></p><ul style="background-color: white; 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font-style: italic;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></ul></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>The Best of Shadows</i><i> </i>ed. <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/d00/d00033.htm#A119">Charles L. Grant</a> (Doubleday Foundation, October 1988, 0-385-23894-0, $15.95, 219pp, hc)</span></b></ul><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Anthology of 13 horror stories. Cover illustration</span></b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.96px;"> </span>by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?25726">Christopher</a></div></span></b><b><div style="text-align: left;"> <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?25726"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Zacharow</span></a></div></b><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ix · Introduction · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n03/n03774.htm#A97">Charles L. Grant</a> · in <i></i>1988</span></b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">1 · Naples · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n02/n02304.htm#A132">Avram Davidson</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00517.htm#A4"><i>Shadows</i> ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1978</a></span></b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">11 · The Gorgon · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n05/n05576.htm#A97">Tanith Lee</a> · nv <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00516.htm#A12"><i>Shadows 5</i> ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1982</a></span></b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">33 · Moving Night · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n04/n04478.htm#A32">Nancy Holder</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00517.htm#A3"><i>Shadows 9</i> ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1986</a></span></b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">39 · Jamie’s Grave · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n09/n09528.htm#A209">Lisa Tuttle</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00517.htm#A5"><i>Shadows 10</i> ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1987</a></span></b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">57 · Sneakers · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n05/n05409.htm#A31">Marc Laidlaw</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00516.htm#A13"><i>Shadows 6</i> ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1983</a></span></b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">63 · The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n05/n05229.htm#A108">Stephen King</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00516.htm#A11"><i>Shadows 4</i> ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1981</a></span></b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">83 · At the Bureau · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n09/n09258.htm#A1">Steve Rasnic Tem</a> · vi <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00516.htm#A10"><i>Shadows 3</i> ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1980</a></span></b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">89 · Mackintosh Willy · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n01/n01465.htm#A103">Ramsey Campbell</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00516.htm#A9"><i>Shadows 2</i> ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1979</a></span></b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">107 · Following the Way · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n08/n08167.htm#A14">Alan Ryan</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00516.htm#A12"><i>Shadows 5 </i>ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1982</a></span></b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">121 · The Storm · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n06/n06692.htm#A12">David Morrell</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00517.htm#A1"><i>Shadows 7 </i>ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1984</a></span></b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">139 · The Silent Cradle · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n05/n05145.htm#A132">Leigh Kennedy</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00516.htm#A13"><i>Shadows 6</i> ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1983</a></span></b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">153 · Wish · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n08/n08273.htm#A94">Al Sarrantonio</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00517.htm#A2"><i>Shadows 8</i> ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1985</a></span></b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">165 · The Spider Glass [<a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/l00/l00342.htm#A2"><i>Comte de Saint Germain</i></a>] · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n10/n10395.htm#A90">Chelsea Quinn Yarbro</a> · nv <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00516.htm#A11"><i>Shadows 4 </i>ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1981</a></span></b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">207 · Appendix A—Shadows by Volume · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n10/n10616.htm#A19">[uncredited]</a> · bi <i></i>1988</span></b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">213 · Appendix B—Shadows by Author · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n10/n10616.htm#A19">[uncredited]</a> · bi <i></i>1988</span></b></li></ul></ul><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Two volumes of impressive work from two of the best periodicals (even if <i>Shadows</i> was a series of anthologies in hardcover first, followed by paperback reprints, and never a magazine) in their respective compasses. Neither is packaged as well as the contents deserve--the <i>Partisan Review</i> volume is almost amateurish in that it's a poorly-bound, slightly oversized hardcover, with single-column pages that are laid-out almost as if it was a printout from a word-processing program, just wide enough across the oversized pages to make the eyetracks across those pages tiresome. I haven't yet looked to other Partisan Review Press volumes of its era to see if they were more professionally-packaged and "better-built"; I'd hope so. The Doubleday Foundation binding and layout of this best-of anthology is a step up from what the preceding volumes of <i>Shadows</i> saw from Doubleday in its cost-conscious days in the '70s and '80s, but I'm not so very impressed with the cover illustration. However, a small pat on the back to Doubleday for publishing ten volumes, more or less timed for release around Hallowe'en, for a decade. As with a relatively small number of further issues of <i>Partisan Review</i> published after its anthology's release, there was a final volume, accurately entitled <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?13541"><i>Final Shadows</i>,</a> released in 1981.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>But for our purposes today, I'll cite only how one piece of fiction in each impressed me (to say the least) on first reading. Oddly enough, the fiction of their authors in (particularly discursive) moods can often seem somewhat similar: the offhanded erudition, the waspish (not WASPish) wit, but nonetheless the compassion, of Avram Davidson and Saul Bellow are on display here as readily as in any of their other work, in, respectively, "Naples" (1978) and "Seize the Day" (1956). "Naples" led off the first volume of Grant's series, brilliantly; it would win the World Fantasy Award for best short fiction in 1979 (the <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/award_category_year.cgi?534+1979">excellent shortlist that year </a>included another Davidson story and a story by editor Grant). I first read it in <i>Shadows</i> (the first volume), in a library copy, shortly after first publication in '78, and I picked up the Playboy Press mass-market paperback not too long after. "Seize the Day" I first read in my copy of <i>23 Modern Stories </i>(1963), edited by Barbara Howe, which I picked up at a library sale, and read over"night" in a summer visit to Fairbanks, AK, with my family in 1981, visiting relatives and old friends of my parents' who still lived there and near(enough)by. The Bellow collection with "Seize" as title story was <a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1957/">shortlisted for the 1957 National Book Award</a>, losing, among several other impressive contenders, to Wright Morris's less well-remembered <i>Field of Vision</i>.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUbUI_deEzSr7Wa8ynkVFkBajJj0Vgk4EWIid0rawJU9TjM5BdofREVZzS4PMJt--NjkDTXkcPiQ2KsBZ5bcbc8S89GzTpnQ3Q1zxuikJAIqgMsNAgEBfQGfvibOifPhITeW6Sgg4QqJkdRYyOmw3kKBEZzihxjM_9vSrqXJaa66mH54Hb24-9nWYIlyJc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="383" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUbUI_deEzSr7Wa8ynkVFkBajJj0Vgk4EWIid0rawJU9TjM5BdofREVZzS4PMJt--NjkDTXkcPiQ2KsBZ5bcbc8S89GzTpnQ3Q1zxuikJAIqgMsNAgEBfQGfvibOifPhITeW6Sgg4QqJkdRYyOmw3kKBEZzihxjM_9vSrqXJaa66mH54Hb24-9nWYIlyJc=w408-h640" width="408" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><ul><li>vii • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?132815">Introduction (Shadows)</a> • essay by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?290">Charles L. Grant</a></li><li>1 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?51218">Naples</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?501">Avram Davidson</a></li><li>8 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?94696">The Little Voice</a> • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?141">Ramsey Campbell</a></li><li>26 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?192516">Butcher's Thumb</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?89">William John Watkins</a> [as by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2648">William Jon Watkins</a>]</li><li>35 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?94694">Where All the Songs Are Sad</a> • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?260">Thomas F. Monteleone</a></li><li>63 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?94693">Splinters</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?36">R. A. Lafferty</a></li><li>76 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?61963">Picture</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?152">Robert Bloch</a></li><li>83 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?94515">The Nighthawk</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1419">Dennis Etchison</a></li><li>99 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?94692">Dead Letters</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?141">Ramsey Campbell</a></li><li>104 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?72201">A Certain Slant of Light</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1221">Raylyn Moore</a></li><li>116 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?94691">Deathlove</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1417">Bill Pronzini</a></li><li>124 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?94690">Mory</a> • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?75">Michael Bishop</a></li><li>142 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?94689">Where Spirits Gat Them Home</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?711">John Crowley</a> (variant of <a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?57785" style="font-style: italic;">Her Bounty to the Dead</a>)</li><li>151 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?40714">Nona</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?45662">Castle Rock</a>] • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?70">Stephen King</a></li></ul></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTkmbUEKBzsGaIn1qQbDCXTwZKarLscBR7cueYIGRxm02kFFzAqtQRNmBg1pJxRrhP4balKzhpurs3KQFwP6P5vtJv1DDfY2iD4pTmnVPLXP2lFCqfHzYgBsFo4zFbHHTHh-PIRRpyC-_itayqyJe_nuQA7MkA5t4K2GRPF8fZQRv_WHEmSLalfy7FNFxF" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTkmbUEKBzsGaIn1qQbDCXTwZKarLscBR7cueYIGRxm02kFFzAqtQRNmBg1pJxRrhP4balKzhpurs3KQFwP6P5vtJv1DDfY2iD4pTmnVPLXP2lFCqfHzYgBsFo4zFbHHTHh-PIRRpyC-_itayqyJe_nuQA7MkA5t4K2GRPF8fZQRv_WHEmSLalfy7FNFxF=w400-h224" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Chappell makes the claim about two hidden stories himself (with implication that they are to professional magazines) in the 2022 documentary<a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/fred-chappell-i-am-one-of-you-forever-pb3xa9/"> <i>Fred Chappell: I Am One of You Forever </i>(which can be seen here, and should be--despite the documentarians choosing, when running a slideshow of fantasy and sf magazine covers over Chappell's soundtrack description of his first publications, throw in an issue of a monster-movie magazine, for no obvious reason other than their confusion, among the fiction magazines)</a>. Chappell's sister recalls that Fred first attended a convention, apparently the 1953 Philcon in Philadelphia (which she refers to as a national writers' conference, which is understandable, but not quite correct--so much as a convention of writers, editors, fans in the social sense [the fannish subculture, including those who published fanzines] and fans of the specific writers, et al.), the WorldCon for that year, when he was 14 years old, which Bob Silverberg (in correspondence) suspects is a memory-slip on her part, as Silverberg recalls meeting Fred for the first time face-to-face at the '53 convention, when Chappell would've been 17yo.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwv07Qqat84-QUzib-r87dv2h99eUg0OWDaF0mKDCxkgam0gGQzEUI3ty3C2xNenIUwY_eW01nm7P-zKJLvjomnZX7oBPTI2aQQodN5C83XJoE931tA9BG_6oV8JR6BRG0arWYSxsod3ZZqUE8xuRnZSAGjSFKsl5qkLFffcLSojHD10MLRkddLef4Ep91" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="245" data-original-width="190" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwv07Qqat84-QUzib-r87dv2h99eUg0OWDaF0mKDCxkgam0gGQzEUI3ty3C2xNenIUwY_eW01nm7P-zKJLvjomnZX7oBPTI2aQQodN5C83XJoE931tA9BG_6oV8JR6BRG0arWYSxsod3ZZqUE8xuRnZSAGjSFKsl5qkLFffcLSojHD10MLRkddLef4Ep91=w310-h400" width="310" /></a></div><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The three Chappell stories in <i>Spaceship</i> are juvenilia, but (unsurprisingly) relatively deft fiction for a promising teen writer. They are worth reading, certainly for any fan or would-be scholar of Chappell's work.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVDGxwX7NU5CNTbT6Q1Qs7zXmtR7m6W8GwgcqkH82FWuL-rl_wrjRLPagoeZDnbaIVow3_3UDElOaJUiy_TTGJ2lUj9jqc17dmOyxWoVetJFuyWOoRtfyFmU65Ec-31GbsdIoXcrSpq2WC21huTPVzCdS87mUkLgEPEQskl1BV1Xpe0Xj-Dhj4_llWmHoi" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="965" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVDGxwX7NU5CNTbT6Q1Qs7zXmtR7m6W8GwgcqkH82FWuL-rl_wrjRLPagoeZDnbaIVow3_3UDElOaJUiy_TTGJ2lUj9jqc17dmOyxWoVetJFuyWOoRtfyFmU65Ec-31GbsdIoXcrSpq2WC21huTPVzCdS87mUkLgEPEQskl1BV1Xpe0Xj-Dhj4_llWmHoi=w493-h640" width="493" /></a></div><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"The New Frontier", in <i>Spaceship</i> #17 (1952) <a href="https://fanac.org/fanzines/Spaceship/Spaceship17.pdf">(which can be read here, and features contributions by other notable writers and fans as well</a>--not least western and fantastica writer and folk-music critic and magazine editor/publisher <a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/search?q=lee+hoffman">Ms. Lee Hoffman</a>), is a bit of a psychodrama, as the widow of an astronaut will find herself triggered into fugue states of communication with her dead husband.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"The Tin Can", in <a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2024/01/ssw-fred-chappells-2-earliest-published.html"><i>Spaceship</i> #21 (1953)</a> is young Chappell in a somewhat comic mood, albeit also exploiting adolescent insecurities as they persist with his protagonist, who acutely feels his lack of sophistication and self-worth in the company of his fellow astronauts...even after he discovers what looks like an enormous tin can through one of their spacecraft's viewports. A bit of an anticipation of Pop Art here, too. The online reproduction of this story features some rather odd scanning, in (I suspect) an attempt to not damage the fanzine issue too badly, but it's legible. This might also be the least assured of the three Chappell stories in Silverberg's fanzine.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Spaceship/Spaceship23.pdf">"Brother", in <i>Spaceship</i> #23 (1953)</a> is a slightly more straightforward story of brothers' rivalry (in a sense), with the middle brother of three boys no little vexed by his elder brother's consistent recounting of the rigors of the elder's life as an astronaut, to the rapt attention of their parents and the youngest brother. Middle brother is both jealous and rather less invested in and actively questioning the glamor of the experience. (Though it had begun earlier, the 1950s were a good period inside and outside the sf community for considerations of how there might not be so very much glory in space exploration, for a number of reasons, most of them inherent in humanity.) </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If these were the stories Chappell would rather not be seen, well, they are both promising efforts by a writer in his mid-teens, and are short enough as well as deft enough to make reading through the typewriter-layout of the fanzine issues worth the look (and enlarging the image on your computer, if necessary) for more than simply historical purposes. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Thanks to Robert Silverberg, Gordon Van Gelder and Rodrigo Baeza for drawing attention to these early Chappell publications.</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For more of today's Short Story Wednesday items, <a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2024/01/short-story-wednesday-year-of-rabbit.html">please see Patti Abbott's blog.</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGXDGqcRORzGrQyFWBVeZCPHyeiK9I_hcI8Lzj834wDdYok4VrJsaaZg2dqYTTl3UqcCD7gTisck81CFUaMoX6VVo5kqP74aFqjwkkTfauNEQalZjqEOGRHtL_Bhyphenhyphen3b9_3cufCiD0SJIxOmiU4eoui0lD4aG9TaM4h40oDs3btXKuwCJtwg6KWLp_o7aqs/s300/short%20story%20wed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGXDGqcRORzGrQyFWBVeZCPHyeiK9I_hcI8Lzj834wDdYok4VrJsaaZg2dqYTTl3UqcCD7gTisck81CFUaMoX6VVo5kqP74aFqjwkkTfauNEQalZjqEOGRHtL_Bhyphenhyphen3b9_3cufCiD0SJIxOmiU4eoui0lD4aG9TaM4h40oDs3btXKuwCJtwg6KWLp_o7aqs/w400-h224/short%20story%20wed.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-76020855762125719542024-01-21T19:43:00.013-05:002024-01-22T13:29:20.050-05:00THE TRIALS OF O'BRIEN--the television series (and film)--episodes online at the moment:<div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></b><img alt="The Trials of O'Brien - Wikipedia" aria-hidden="false" class="sFlh5c pT0Scc iPVvYb" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Trials_of_OBrien.JPG" style="height: 413px; margin: 0px; max-width: 500px; width: 500px;" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>The Trials of O'Brien</i> was, as no</span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ted elsewhere in </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>the blog, a 22-episode/single-season CBS </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>television series </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tha</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t had </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>the poor for</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tune of being slo</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ted in 1965-66 agains</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t ano</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ther new series, NBC's <i>Ge</i></b></span><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t Smar</b></span></i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>t</i>, and a remarkably popular older series on ABC, </b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>The Lawrence Welk Show</i>. 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font-size: medium;"><b>t McGonigle (David Burns), and a police officer of his acquain</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tance, Garrison (Dolph Swee</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t).</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Circula</span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ting e</b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">pisodes of </span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>the series are mos</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tly in no</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>the bes</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t shape, af</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; 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Pos</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ted version of </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>the one 2-par</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t episode, filmed in color and released in foreign marke</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ts (and probably </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>to US </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tv syndica</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tion) as a fea</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ture, looks ra</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ther be</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ter. (Click on the YouTube logo </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>to wa</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tch </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>them in full-screen.)<br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"Over Defence is Done": Pilot episode--gues</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t s</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tars include Murray Hamil</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ton</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>, Vincen</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t Gardenia and Ka</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>thleen Cody. A ra</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ther hardboiled episode a</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>imes.<br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/vkjoF5jIo3c?si=qSUx6kaHhcm3czB3" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vkjoF5jIo3c/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"Bargain</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> Day on </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>the S</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tree</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t of Regre</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t": Ep. 1o2--gues</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t s</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tars include Herschel Bernardi, Rober Blake, Alber</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> Dekker and Judi Wes</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/02rNvtS6DUc?si=_hQKAORwWb9hqiy_" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/02rNvtS6DUc/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"No Jus</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tice for </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>the Judge": </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Ep. 103--guest s</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tars include Burgess Meredi</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>th and </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Barnard Hughes.</b></span></div><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Writers_Guild_of_America_Awards"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>An episode which won scrip</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ter David Ellis </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>the Wri</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ters Guild of America award for bes</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t episodic drama scrip</b></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Writers_Guild_of_America_Awards">t in 1966.</a><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>No</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t available on YouTube. </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Archived at the University of Georgia (the Wal</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ter J. Brown Media Archives</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>) in two parts: </b></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://kaltura.uga.edu/media/t/1_nko946cd">Part 1 </a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://kaltura.uga.edu/media/t/1_zhggehro"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Par</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t 2</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"A Gaggle of Girls": Ep. 107--gues</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>s</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tars include </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Tammy Grimes,</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Noëlle Adam, David Doyle, Valerie Allen and Reni San</span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>toni.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/7gWsLfrRuyg?si=lqo7IBP3wx6nQhoO" width="480"></iframe> <br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"Charlie's Go</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t All </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>the Luck": Ep. 110--gues</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t s</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tars include Martin Sheen, Tony Rober</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ts and Judi Wes</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/Z6R_XkPZqpA?si=IL1JvKCIIqk_SvUL" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Z6R_XkPZqpA/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"Pic</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ure Me a Murder": Ep. 111--gues</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> s</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tars include Alan Alda, Joanna Pe</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tet, Charles Grodin, Jessica Walter, Harold J. Stone and Claude Akins.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/TrJ02SRip-8?si=oLIiHYb5YD0C9gBT" width="480"></iframe> <br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>And, finally among wha</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t's curren</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tly pos</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ted, the film version of Ep. 120 and 121, "The Greates</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t Game" P</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>ts. 1 & 2, sligh</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tly recu</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t as <i>Too Many Thieves</i>, wi</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>th gues</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t s</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>tars Bri</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t Eklund, David Carradine, George Coulouris and Nehemiah Persoff.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/SsJHa3i3ZCw?si=oeka-Fe4_mTI4una" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SsJHa3i3ZCw/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Posters for </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>the film version:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="TOO MANY THIEVES (1967) * PETER FALK * BRITT EKLAND * ARGENTINE 1sh MOVIE POSTER - Picture 1 of 1" data-zoom-src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/GWsAAOSwiMVhyl-B/s-l1600.jpg" height="640" src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/GWsAAOSwiMVhyl-B/s-l1600.jpg" style="transform-origin: 470px 294px 0px;" width="480" /> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><img alt="Too Many Thieves" src="https://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_full/JamieF-EW/too-many-thieves-cinema-quad-movie-poster-(1).jpg" /> <br /></div><p>
</p>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-41195806694103603102024-01-19T11:38:00.014-05:002024-01-22T06:56:39.471-05:00FFB: Randy Johnson on THE TRIALS OF O'BRIEN by Robert L. Fish (Rediscovered)<div class="a-row a-spacing-mini" data-hook="genome-widget" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 4px; width: 680px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>And, unsurprisingly, <a href="https://randall120.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/ffb-the-trials-of-obrien-robert-l-fish/">Randy also put this review up</a></b></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-mini" data-hook="genome-widget" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 4px; width: 680px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://randall120.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/ffb-the-trials-of-obrien-robert-l-fish/"> on his blog, which for no Good reason, I didn't find</a></b></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-mini" data-hook="genome-widget" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 4px; width: 680px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://randall120.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/ffb-the-trials-of-obrien-robert-l-fish/"> in a a too-quick search yesterday morning but eventually</a></b></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-mini" data-hook="genome-widget" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 4px; width: 680px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://randall120.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/ffb-the-trials-of-obrien-robert-l-fish/"> I found it</a></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://randall120.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/ffb-the-trials-of-obrien-robert-l-fish/">...<i>Here</i>!</a></b></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-mini" data-hook="genome-widget" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 4px; width: 680px;"><div class="a-profile-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007185; display: table-cell; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; min-height: 34px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: middle;"><span class="a-profile-name" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; line-height: 19px; position: relative; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://randall120.wordpress.com/"><br />Randy Johnson: his blog</a><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AGZNNSMD6ZMF4LN3PTUNPBBLTIUQ/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_gw_btm?ie=UTF8">and on Amazon</a></i></span></span></div></div><div class="a-row" style="background-color: white; 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line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2014</i></span></span></p><div class="a-row a-spacing-mini review-data review-format-strip" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 4px; width: 680px;"><a class="a-link-normal" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_avp?nodeId=G75XTB7MBMBTXP6W" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #007185; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span class="a-size-mini a-color-state a-text-bold" color="rgb(196, 85, 0) !important" data-hook="avp-badge-linkless" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Verified Purchase</span></span></a></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><!--wp:paragraph-->
<div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>I was completely unfamiliar with this series. Understandable. </b></span></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>I was fifteen at the time it aired and mostly watched and read </b></span></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>science fiction. It only ran for one season and I read elsewhere </b></span></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>that Peter Falk said he thought more of it than he did his signature </b></span></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>show <i style="outline: none;">Columbo</i>. Daniel J. O'Brien is a lawyer that likes to play the</b></span></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="outline: none;">h</span><span style="outline: none;">orses and throw the dice, gamble in general, and is not very </span></b></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>successful at any of them. He owes everybody, has an ex-wife that </b></span></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>constantly carps about late alimony in the form of bounced checks, </b></span></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>and a secretary he's always borrowing money from and is behind </b></span></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>on her salary. Fortunately for him, he seems to bring out the soft </b></span></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>spot in women and stays on their good side. Just barely.</b></span></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br style="outline: none;" /><span style="outline: none;">O'Brien gets unwittingly involved in a scheme by an old client of his. </span></b></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Benny Kalen is a three time loser. That he only got a few years on </b></span></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>his last conviction instead of a dozen makes no impression. O'Brien </b></span></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="outline: none;">should have got him off, therefore he didn't deserve to get paid.</span><br style="outline: none;" /><br style="outline: none;" /><span style="outline: none;">O'Brien gets suckered by Benny's wife into being at a bar late one </span></b></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>night while Benny and a confederate are pulling a stick-up job on </b></span></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="outline: none;">a finance company that had just opened next door.</span><br style="outline: none;" /><br style="outline: none;" /><span style="outline: none;">Thinks go wrong and there's a dead body. Benny's parole officer had </span></b></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>warned O'Brien that he heard his name mentioned and believes he's </b></span></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="outline: none;">in on the job.</span><br style="outline: none;" /><br style="outline: none;" /><span style="outline: none;">Our lawyer is forced to defend his former client, who swears the man </span></b></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>was already dead and the safe broken into when he entered the office, </b></span></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="outline: none;">in order to clear his name.</span><br style="outline: none;" /><br style="outline: none;" /><span style="outline: none;">Robert L. Fish wrote this one and is the reason I gave it a try. </span></b></span></div><div style="color: black; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>His novel <i style="outline: none;">Mute Witness </i>became the Steve McQueen movie <i style="outline: none;">Bullitt</i>.</b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><br /></span></div>
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margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base a-color-tertiary cr-vote-text" color="rgb(86, 89, 89) !important" data-hook="helpful-vote-statement" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><a href="https://randall120.wordpress.com/2015/07/12/its-been-fun/">Randy's farewell blogpost.</a></b></i></span></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base a-color-tertiary cr-vote-text" color="rgb(86, 89, 89) !important" data-hook="helpful-vote-statement" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base a-color-tertiary cr-vote-text" color="rgb(86, 89, 89) !important" data-hook="helpful-vote-statement" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2013/12/amazon-stumped-in-theft-of-bill-crider.html">My post that apparently put Randy onto the Fish novelization. </a></i></span></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 680px;"><span class="a-size-base a-color-tertiary cr-vote-text" color="rgb(86, 89, 89) !important" data-hook="helpful-vote-statement" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://billcrider.blogspot.com/2011/04/paperback_08.html">(This Bill Crider meme was in posting back covers of paperbacks.)</a></i></span></span></div></span></div>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-27770971883546699452024-01-17T07:44:00.006-05:002024-01-17T18:21:43.599-05:00SSW: Joyce Carol Oates: "Sex with Camel"; Carmen Maria Machado: "Especially Heinous: 272 Views of LAW AND ORDER: SVU": THE AMERICAN READER, May/June 2013, edited by Uzoamaka Maduka: Short Story Wednesday <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://theamericanreader.com/especially-heinous-272-views-of-law-order-svu/" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">"Especially Heinous: 272 Views of <i>Law and Order: SVU</i>" by Carmen Maria Machado</a></b></span></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://theamericanreader.com/sex-with-camel/" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">"Sex with Camel" by Joyce Carol Oates</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-american-reader-2012-2015-10-issues.html">For more on <i>The American Reader</i>, please click here.</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ2J5jI9fY0G9HYa6YJdMVjgJ2Ipe3IN2nSF_kMrqRLY9irIkd-zGYqOUY0NSjJxyg4JkyZ-cGQ4YzsB04rSZnAzM10MRNfTvI1LN6YDjdkvMSVYxpeOf6eLNG45p72W30gzPZh2QlnWnIhh2_CpG2GI4Fxwv6hj1UkJ15rHWFFeaUgotEHHapt-ouApTI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ2J5jI9fY0G9HYa6YJdMVjgJ2Ipe3IN2nSF_kMrqRLY9irIkd-zGYqOUY0NSjJxyg4JkyZ-cGQ4YzsB04rSZnAzM10MRNfTvI1LN6YDjdkvMSVYxpeOf6eLNG45p72W30gzPZh2QlnWnIhh2_CpG2GI4Fxwv6hj1UkJ15rHWFFeaUgotEHHapt-ouApTI=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><br /><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Two stories, a short story by J. C. Oates and a novelet (the magazine dubs it a novella, and it's close to being an either-way call) by Carmen Machado, the two biggest names (in terms of literary careers in the U.S.) a decade+ after this issue's appearance as they were (or in Machado's case, was becoming) at time of publication.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Joyce Carol Oates's story is a fairly straightforward account of what's running through the minds of a grandmother and her adolescent grandson, as she goes through some workups and examinations during cancer treatment and he comes along with her to the labyrinthine hospital; the title is a reference to one of the jokes the teen tells her as she drives them to the appointments, after she asks him to tell her something amusing. It gives impressions of how things work in U. S. medicine these years (a decade ago, much as now), and is otherwise impressionistic, recounting the grandson's peregrinations around the hospital, including into the adjoining eating disorders suite, while his gran goes through her examinations...a conversation he has, for example, with an apparently to him beautiful teen girl a few years older than he, even given her starvation, who's disinhibited and slightly abrasive in her conversational style by one of the meds she's been given. The views and concerns the boy and the woman have of and for each other are explored. It's a bit "looser" than many Oates stories, but has the earmarks of her work, and is a solid example thus.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Carmen Maria Machado's story is a metafiction which uses as its skeleton the episode titles of each of the episodes of <i>Law and Order: SVU</i> broadcast up to the time of the story's composition (if she was writing it today, it might have to be at least a short novel, if following its current format), and using the relationship and basic situations between the primary characters Benson and Stabler (in the early seasons of the series) as a springboard for ruminations on how they might find themselves growing increasingly divorced from even their portrayed reality, their lives and jobs, as they navigate the sequence of sex-related and child-abuse-related crimes they are tasked with investigating, detailed by vignettes inspired more by the titles of the episodes of the series than by their plots. It's a clever and often funny approach, even given the seriousness at its heart, which the subject matter of both story and series requires, even as the series can and does manage to traduce that requirement at times via a certain mechanical quality in its scripting...one of the aspects the story gets at, as it also introduces elements such as doppelgangers of the principals, named Hensen and Abler, who seem to be more efficient usurpers of the protagonists' lives and careers. It makes its points, beyond the obvious stunt value of its premise.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>For more of today's stories, please see <a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2024/01/short-story-wednesday-dance-of-happy.html">Patti Abbott's blog.</a></b></span></div>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-75229788885849648422024-01-15T23:59:00.018-05:002024-01-17T16:19:13.715-05:00THE AMERICAN READER: 2012-2015 (10 issues) and some web content: edited by Uzoamaka Maduka; Monday Fiction Magazine #1<p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9fSLrBWI1WMjPtZSQFatMDib1EBA5jxErPgDacsUaigGQf0pbcbi_Ce4sgpk4aHIbuoisoi-_-vlClIZfCvGFwqKlMG7ZJpe65gT_cpyWfsyrOHmi8sZfL6mlY4dquDZ61oK2krQEDtg3nuGbidXqnM8xT8ndi8MR4K5QDuz6RcRxWzPL4B47JgkSqyda" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1057" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9fSLrBWI1WMjPtZSQFatMDib1EBA5jxErPgDacsUaigGQf0pbcbi_Ce4sgpk4aHIbuoisoi-_-vlClIZfCvGFwqKlMG7ZJpe65gT_cpyWfsyrOHmi8sZfL6mlY4dquDZ61oK2krQEDtg3nuGbidXqnM8xT8ndi8MR4K5QDuz6RcRxWzPL4B47JgkSqyda=w640-h310" width="640" /></a></i></span></b></div><p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>The American Reader</i> was an ambitious project, perhaps even the equivalent of post-grad work for its principals, very much including the founding editor-in-chief and chief public face of the magazine, the (at founding) 25-year-old Ms. <a href="https://nestpasgeneve.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-american-reader-x-uzoamaka-maduka-m.html">Uzoamaka "Max" Maduka</a>, a Nigerian-American who was interested in demonstrating that there was a market among her generation of readers for relatively sophisticated literary work, but not afraid of a sales pitch leaning into would-be glamor, perhaps a fair amount of the latter driven by fund-raising necessity but perhaps also due to the desire to be On the Scene in NYC-based publishing and overlapping communities...the kind of social whirl around magazines ranging from <i>The Paris Review</i> to <i>National Review</i> (only presumably without the CIA connections and/or funding both of those had early on), and seeking the kind of stability that, say, <i>Harper's</i> had achieved through its institutional heir publisher. The subtitle on the cover of the first year+'s issues was "A Monthly Journal of Literature and Criticism"--it managed two monthly issues in its slightly longer than two-year run; it went to "A Bimonthly Journal...", also a schedule they couldn't maintain. But, then, essentially no one has been able to jump into the market in the last half-century or so with a monthly literary magazine...even the hardiest examples have tended to start with quarterly or bimonthly publication, and presumably with more capital on hand in most cases (and this includes the theoretically "more commercial" fiction magazines in fantastic fiction and crime fiction, where the long-running titles are mostly bimonthly these years and often were introduced, even back in the 1940s as well as in the '70s, as quarterlies). And the issues I've seen were ad-free, except for a very few house ads (touting subscriptions and their website, which featured some extra content at times).</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I picked up at least a couple/few issues of the magazine during its run. I never saw the first issue, the only one in saddle-stapled format--see photo of the stack below--and with a cover stock that was easily crumpled; the balance of issues were "perfect-bound" (with glued signatures) and with a heavier stock; the new cover format was patterned (notes Amy O'Leary in<i> New York Times </i>coverage linked at the bottom of the post) after a French political journal, <i>Le Contrat Social</i>, with illustrations soon added with the flavor of another 1950s inspiration, the work of art director George Salter at the Mercury Press magazines such as <i>The American Mercury</i>, <i>Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine</i>, <i>The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction </i>and their <i>Mercury Mystery </i>and other newsstand periodical book lines, packaged and sold similarly to their magazines. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The one issue I've recently turned up in my reorganization of my library is the May/June 2013 issue (still in the "monthly" subtitle era!), so I'll provide an index and links to the <i>American Reade</i>r web archive of those contents as I find them (the site Really Could use a search function, at least).</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Maduka, upon the folding of her magazine, had already joined the board of <i>Lapham's Quarterly</i>, and subscription fulfillment for her magazine was offered with issues of that magazine, which (as it happens) officially folded late last year.</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><a href="https://theamericanreader.com/">What remains of the <i>TAR</i> website</a>; </span></b><b style="text-align: right;"></b><b style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/readermagazine/"><i>TAR'</i>s pretty good Facebook "wall"...which has been abandoned, and thus has some porn spam in comments on late posts, but still has many interesting links</a>--and is the closest thing to an index the site has.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><b><a href="https://theamericanreader.com/an-interview-with-karen-joy-fowler/"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Karen Joy Fowler interviewed by Carmen Maria Machado</span></a></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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Irregular publication intervals, not quite bimonthly throughout its run.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>3 * Anonymous/uncredited * </b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;">Contributors * </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">biographic blurbs</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">6 * Jacqueline Waters * Candor * poem</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">11 * Matthew Rohrer * The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg at the Grey Gallery, NYC * pm</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">12 * Matthew Rohrer * Hide in the Clouds * pm</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">13 * Matthew Rohrer * Two Poems for Issa * pm</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">14 * Matthew Rohrer * Dark Inside, Bright Outside: A Magritte * pm</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">15 * Matthew Rohrer * Bullshark * pm</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">16 * Liam Hysjulien * Stone, Deep, Mountains * pm</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">17 * Liam Hysjulien * The South * pm</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">18 * Liam Hysjulien * Teachers * pm</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">19 * Jameson Fitzpatrick * Adolescence * pm</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">20 * Jameson Fitzpatrick * Apart * pm</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">22 * Otto Jaffe * The South of France * ss</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">27 * Joyce Carol Oates * Sex with Camel * ss</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">40 * Ramon Isao * Feats * ss</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">55 * Carmen Maria Machado * Especially Heinous: 272 Views of <i>Law and Order: SVU</i> * novelet</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia;">92 * Jonathon Kyle Sturgeon * Scenes of Emancipation: On </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Jacques Rancière</b></span></span><b style="font-family: georgia;"> 's <i>Aisthesis</i> * essay</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia;">96 * </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: georgia;">Jacques Rancière * </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">The Cruel Radiance of What It Is: Hale County, 1936-New York, 1941 * excerpt, <i>Aisthesis</i>, translated by Zakir Paul, translation Verso, 2013</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">111 * South Korea * group/translations</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">112 * Jenny Wang Medina* Introduction * in</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">115 * Hwang Byeong-Seung * First * pm, translated by Chae-Pyong Song and Darcy L. Brandel</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia;">116 * Moon Tae-Jun * A Brief Nap * </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">p</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">m, translated by Chae-Pyong Song and Darcy L. Brandel</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia;">117 * </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">Moon Tae-Jun * The Ibis * </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">p</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">m, translated by Chae-Pyong Song and Darcy L. 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THE WAYS WE LIVE NOW: CONTEMPORARY SHORT FICTION FROM THE ONTARIO REVIEW edited by Raymond J. 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<span><b>Anthologies from two of the more notable little magazines of their era; <i>OR</i> having lasted a third of a century, and this, the only anthology from it so far, drawing on its first dozen years, the magazine ending with the death of its editor and co-publisher Raymond Smith, as cofounder and widow Joyce Carol Oates chose not to continue it. <i>MG</i> having been more of a mayfly in the horror small press, but having gathered an impressive roster of contributors, with the editors and publisher continuing their writing careers afterward, if perhaps not robustly (not sure if their romantic/domestic partnership continues, another parallel); the book apparently includes reprints from the magazine and fiction perhaps </b></span></span><b>still in inventory after the last issue of the initial run was published in 1992, or solicited for the book--with one story already a reprint when published in the magazine, and another possibly resold to <i>Pulphouse</i> after <i>MG</i>'s long delays in publishing (two more issues, one a 1994 "special" and the 1997 other one apparently mostly nonfiction, sporadically followed the book's publication); for i</b></span><b>ts par</b><b>t</b><b>, </b><b>the <i>OR</i> book includes a Margaret Drabble s</b><b>tory (and not a hundred-word vignette) published </b><b>two years before in </b><b>the UK edi</b><b>tion of <i>Cosmopoli</i></b><b><i>tan</i>, bu</b><b>t</b><b> no</b><b>t previously in Nor</b><b>th America.</b><span><b> Both books rather neglected, even at time of release, with only two editions each...hardcover and apparently trade paperback editions of the Smith volume released by OR Press, and a mass market paperback original release from Warner Books and a Doubleday Book Clubs edition in hardcover for the <i>MG</i> volume. In their introductions, Raymond J. Smith and Jessica Horsting go out of their way to note how very much concerned with the world of today the fiction in their magazines has tended to be, perhaps even more so than that of most comparable magazines in the eclectic literary magazine and the horror and suspense </b></span><b>fields </b><span><b>(bo</b></span><b>th magazines </b><span><b>with dollops of satirical and other sorts of fantasy included), with these selections perhaps highlighting that tendency, which might even be why they seemed a good pair for an essay about just that (Raymond Smith even revising Trollope's novel's title to fit his anthology's tendencies); it's not as if, say, <i>Conjunctions</i> nor <i>Whispers</i> was oblivious to such concerns, but perhaps not quite as in</b></span><b>ten</b><b>t on being</b><span><b> attuned to them. Also notable is the degree to which talented writers, from those who never need worry where their next meal was coming from to rather new and usually promising professionals, would place work with the magazines which presumably paid modestly if at a reasonable going rate. Smi</b></span><b>th is rela</b><b>tively res</b><b>trained in presen</b><b>ta</b><b>tion, running </b><b>the s</b><b>t</b><b>ories alphabe</b><b>t</b><b>ically by au</b><b>thor, and offering only brief con</b><b>tribu</b><b>tor no</b><b>tes in </b><b>the las</b><b>t pages, including </b><b>the da</b><b>tum </b><b>tha</b><b>t Oa</b><b>tes "helps edi</b><b>t" <i>OR; </i>Hors</b><b>t</b><b>ing is more in</b><b>ten</b><b>t on cura</b><b>tion, breaking</b><b> s</b><b>tories in</b><b>to </b><b>themed ba</b><b>tches, each wi</b><b>th a brief in</b><b>t</b><b>roduc</b><b>tion by her; each s</b><b>tory also has an uncredi</b><b>ted headno</b><b>te, where perhaps an invisible</b><b> hand of Van Hise is fel</b><b>t. Also no</b><b>table is how s</b><b>t</b><b>arkly </b><b>t</b><b>ex</b><b>t</b><b>ual how bo</b><b>th books feel, compared </b><b>to </b><b>the imagery, illus</b><b>tra</b><b>tion, photography or o</b><b>therwise,</b><b> </b><b>their magazines fea</b><b>t</b><b>ured in each issue.</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Both magazines leaned toward shorter fiction, rather than novellas or serialized or even excerpted novels; when one removes the dust jackets from both the hardcover volumes, one finds that the <i>OR </i>volume is red with black lettering on the spine, the <i>MG</i> black with red lettering, making for a sort of visual harkening to Stendhal jointly and severally. Unsurprisingly, <i>Ways </i>is a better-built volume, sewn in cloth-covered boards on better paper but with slightly less easy-to-read typesetting; the book club edition of the other has a then-typical D-day glue binding on less sturdy boards containing slightly cheaper paper, but also depends on the more thoroughly professional typeface choices in play at Warner Books, and with fewer words per page, probably has about as much content as the thinner volume.</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Neither book was too thoroughly reviewed, as far as I can tell, at time of release...the <i>OR</i> volume seems not to have been reviewed in such a way that I've found indexes for those reviews at all, while <i>MG</i> received a number of mostly unimpressive <i>Goodreads</i> responses and not too much more, though <a href="https://toomuchhorrorfiction.blogspot.com/2010/07/midnight-graffiti-edited-by-horsting.html">Will Errickson's womanfriend Ashley Louise did guest-review it for his blog in 2010.</a></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilnQx1ASEYhPJQeorya8nQoK7vkHO90fgJbAc0NAoI89mFZGVnzzKf-qnlJSAxokWn6YK9xRWVcw22OwN9m51UhKegQmpsUbnEh8e1NsqP0CeuSZKt-3cTDXoh8ekmo294Rh62nGfN2SsvaFnUW_ccsA2fBcgH38i2M-jlJIttO_SD-8vEeW8yNb8Mng/s744/midnight%20g.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilnQx1ASEYhPJQeorya8nQoK7vkHO90fgJbAc0NAoI89mFZGVnzzKf-qnlJSAxokWn6YK9xRWVcw22OwN9m51UhKegQmpsUbnEh8e1NsqP0CeuSZKt-3cTDXoh8ekmo294Rh62nGfN2SsvaFnUW_ccsA2fBcgH38i2M-jlJIttO_SD-8vEeW8yNb8Mng/s16000/midnight%20g.jpg" /></a></div></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Midnight Graffiti</i></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Editors:</b> <b><a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?10535" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Jessica Horsting</a>, <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?7724" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">James Van Hise</a></b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Date: 1992-10-00</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>ISBN: 0-446-36307-3</span> <span>[<small>978-0-446-36307-5</small>]</span></b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Publisher: <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?30" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Warner Books</a></b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Price: $5.99</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Pages: xiv+365</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Format: <span class="hint" style="cursor: help;" title="Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.">pb (the US Science Fiction Book Club [and possibly other Doubleday Book Clubs as well] released a hardcover in 1993, shot from the same layout)</span></b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?141028" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Cover</a>:</b> <b style="text-decoration-style: dotted;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?26472" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Martin Cannon</a> (reprinted from the cover of the first issue)</b></span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">v • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1006226" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Introduction (<i>Midnight Graffiti</i>)</a> • (1992) • essay by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?10535" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Jessica Horsting</a></span></b></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>1</b></span><b> <span style="font-family: georgia;">• It Came from Beyond </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">• group introduction/essay by </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?10535" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Jessica Horsting</a></span></b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">5 <b style="font-family: Tinos;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">•</span></b> <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?40690" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Rainy Season</a> • (1989) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?70" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Stephen King</a> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">• <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59542"><i>Midnight Graffiti </i>Spring 1989</a></span></b></span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">30 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?43802" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Say Hello, Mister Quigley</a> • (1992) • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1558" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">J. Michael Straczynski</a> <i><b style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">• </span></b><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60086">Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine</a></i><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60086"> September/October 1992</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">52 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?43803" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Sinus Fiction</a> • (1992) • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?974" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Gil Lamont</a></span></b></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>83 </b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• Apocalypso </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• gi/essay by JH</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">87 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?41733" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Emerald City Blues</a> • (1988) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?74" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Steven R. Boyett</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">106 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?43804" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Cattletruck</a> • (1989) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11639" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Cliff Burns</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">112 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?43805" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Bad Guy Hats</a> • (1989) • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1425" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">David J. Schow</a></span></b></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>139 </b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• Graffiti </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• gi/essay by JH</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">143 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?43806" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">"I Want to Get Married" Says World's Smallest Man!</a> • (1992) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1276" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">John Shirley</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">162 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?43807" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Spike Jones and the Reverend Sister Claudine</a> • (1992) • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1551" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Rex Miller</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">188 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?43808" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland</a> • (1989) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1179" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Joe R. Lansdale</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">192 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?43809" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Salvation</a> • (1992) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11380" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Lawrence Person</a></span></b></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>195 </b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• Psychos </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• gi/essay by JH</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">199 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?43810" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Rant</a> • (1990) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1042" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Nancy A. Collins</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">213 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?92085" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Blue on One End, Yellow on the Other</a> • (1990) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?592" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">K. W. Jeter</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">223 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?43811" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">The Domino Man</a> • (1992) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11640" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Phil Tiso</a></span></b></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">253</span> </b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">• Hell, You Say </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">• gi/essay by JH</span></b></span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">228 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?43812" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">The New Order: 3 Moral Fictions</a> • (1992) • short fiction by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11356" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">R. V. Branham</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">257 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?43813" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Murder Mysteries</a> • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?410" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Neil Gaiman</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">291 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?43814" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Heaven, Heaven Is a Place</a> • (1992) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11356" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">R. V. Branham</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">303 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?52141" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Where I Shall Dwell in the Next World</a> • (1992) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?25" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Harlan Ellison</a></span></b></li>
<li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>318 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?40762" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">The River Styx Runs Upstream</a> • (1982) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?170" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Dan Simmons</a> </span></b><a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60154" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">(<i>Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine</i>, April 1982)</span></b></a></span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">334 • <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?43815" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Dark Embrace</a> • (1992) • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?7724" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">James Van Hise</a></span></b></li>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>edited by Raymond J. Smith (Ontario Review Press, 1986; </span></b></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">0-86538-054-6, x+301pp, hc; </span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">978-0865380554 tp)</span></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><ul style="background-color: white;"><b> Details supplied by Dennis Lien, augmented by TM.<ul><li>ix · Preface · Raymond J. Smith</li><li>1 · Molly’s Dog · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n00/n00023.htm#A219">Alice Adams</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review </i>21, Fall 1984/Winter 1985</li><li>12 · The Man from Mars · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n00/n00289.htm#A25">Margaret Atwood</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review</i> 6, Spring/Summer 1977</li><li>29 · Saving the Boat People · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n00/n00572.htm#A104">Joe David Bellamy</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review</i> 21, Fall 1984/Winter 1985</li><li>45 · Town Smokes · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n00/n00589.htm#A39">Pinckney Benedict</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review</i> 25, Fall 1986/Winter 1987</li><li>58 · My Life as a West African Gray Parrot · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n00/n00670.htm#A169">Leigh Buchanan Bienen</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review</i> 15, Fall 1981/Winter 1982</li><li>69 · At the Krungthep Plaza · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n00/n00862.htm#A24">Paul Bowles</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review </i>13, Fall 1980/Winter 1981</li><li>74 · The Black Queen · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n01/n01210.htm#A106">Barry Callaghan</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review </i>13, Fall 1980/Winter 1981</li><li>77 · Homework · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n02/n02262.htm#A4">Margaret Drabble</a> · ss <i>Cosmopolitan (UK)</i> November 1975; <i>The Ontario Review </i>7, Fall 1977/Winter 1978</li><li>84 · Death’s Midwives · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n02/n02419.htm#A46">Margareta Ekström</a> · ss; translated by Linda Schenck, <i>The Ontario Review </i>20, Spring/Summer 1984</li><li>93 · Fruit of the Month · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n02/n02854.htm#A154">Abby Frucht</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review </i>20, Spring/Summer 1984</li><li>102 · A Pure Soul · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n02/n02858.htm#A176">Carlos Fuentes</a> · ss; translated by Margaret S. Peden, <i>The Ontario Review </i>12, Spring/Summer 1980 </li><li>116 · The Harvest · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n02/n02896.htm#A96">Tess Gallagher</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review</i> 19, Fall 1983/Winter 1984</li><li>129 · Some Gifts · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n03/n03005.htm#A21">Reginald Gibbons</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review </i>5, Fall 1976</li><li>137 · Black Cotton · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n03/n03164.htm#A48">William Goyen</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review </i>17, Fall 1982/Winter 1983</li><li>144 · Any Sport · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n03/n03676.htm#A128">William Heyen</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review </i>24, Spring/Summer 1986</li><li>152 · The Mango Community · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n04/n04061.htm#A93">Josephine Jacobsen</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review</i> 20, Spring/Summer 1984</li><li>168 · A Metamorphosis · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n04/n04154.htm#A96">Greg Johnson</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review</i> 8, Spring/Summer 1978</li><li>178 · On This Short Day of Frost and Sun · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n04/n04518.htm#A143">Maxine Kumin</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review</i> 5, 1976</li><li>185 · Baby · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n05/n05894.htm#A184">Joyce Carol Oates</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review </i>23, Fall 1986/Winter 1987</li><li>199 · Confessions of a Bad Girl · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n06/n06211.htm#A66">Bette Pesetsky</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review </i>23, Spring/Summer 1985</li><li>209 · Tea Party · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n06/n06813.htm#A1">Sarah Rossiter</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review </i>15, Fall 1981/Winter 1982</li><li>221 · Shadow Bands · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n07/n07015.htm#A92">Jeanne Schinto</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review </i>23, Fall 1985/Winter 1986</li><li>235 · Rough Strife · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n07/n07049.htm#A100">Lynne Sharon Schwartz</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review </i>7, Fall 1977/Winter 1978</li><li>252 · The Girl Who Loved Horses · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n07/n07444.htm#A114">Elizabeth Spencer</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review</i> 10, Spring/Summer 1979</li><li>267 · The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: A Story · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n07/n07558.htm#A180">Daniel Stern</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review</i> 24, Spring/Summer 1986</li><li>273 · Mourning · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n07/n07785.htm#A77">Robert Taylor, Jr.</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review</i> 14, Spring/Summer 1981</li><li>281 · Interviews with Insufficiently Famous Americans · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n08/n08052.htm#A145">John Updike</a> · vi series </li><li> 281 · The Counselor · vi <i>The Ontario Review </i>12, Spring/ Summer 1980</li><li> 283 · The Widow · vi <i>The Ontario Review </i>16, Spring/Summer 1982</li></ul><ul><li> 285 · The Undertaker · vi <i>The Ontario Review </i>15, Fall 1981/ Winter 1982</li><li>287 · A Lesson in the Classics · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n08/n08426.htm#A125">Gloria Whelan</a> · ss <i>The Ontario Review </i>18, Spring/Summer 1983</li><li>299 · Contributors · Anon · bi</li></ul></b></ul><div><b><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_0865380546">The Smith (and Oates) volume can be read here;</a> <a href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1356335M/Midnight_graffiti">the Horsting and Van Hise volume can be read here.</a><a href="https://archive.org/details/midnightgraffiti0000unse">..or here.</a></i></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>The stories:</i> as too often, life has been less cooperative than I'd like in rereading the stories in either volume over the last week, but among those I refreshed my memory of, it's amusing to compare the fantasy stories "My Life as a West African Gray Parrot" by <a href="https://www.florencekelley.com/">Leigh Buchanan Bienen </a>and "Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland" by Joe Lansdale (the book never gives him his middle initial); the Buchanan Bienen, by a writer who had been and</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;"> remains primarily a lawyer (particularly involved with women's rights cases, which informs the story), professor and author of legal volumes, as well as contributor of short fiction and critical essays to little magazines, involves said parrot, being as many non-human animals in the story a karmic? reincarnation of a human, recounting her less that joyous life with a human married couple who looked upon their purchased bird as more conversation piece and investment than pet; all the reincarnated animals in the story, such as her keepers' tomcat, can converse with each other (somehow), but apparently another non-human animal she interacts with has not been blessed with reincarnation from human form nor a common language. While the Lansdale involves a present of a wife to a husband of an inflatable <i>T. rex</i> toy, which upon inflation begins to act like a young child, not altogether like Pinocchio, but unsurprising in this to its new "parents"...the plastic dinosaur quickly becomes obsessed with the prospect of going to the original Disney theme park and meeting the cartoon characters and the like, an excursion Bob's parents enable with perhaps surprising results. Animal/toy fantasy, a bird with an old soul awaiting its next incarnation and an artificial youngster recapitulating human childhood and adolescence. The Lansdale is funnier, if slighter, and <a href="https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?43808">has been reprinted more often</a>; the Buchanan Bienen was included in the <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/l00/l00288.htm#A35">O. Henry Prize Stories volume for 1983,</a> and both are a bit eccentric even for their first publication sites. </b></span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Both books have a triptych of short fictions, the <i>OR </i>example by John Updike (arguably the "biggest name" in the Smith volume--though Oates, Margaret Atwood and Carlos Fuentes are among the many potential challengers there, particularly in 2024) and the <i>MG</i> being three of four stories by R. V. Branham, not quite a "discovery" of the horror/dark fantasy magazine (he'd gone through the Writers of the Future program and had sold several stories to Gardner Dozois's editorship of <i>Asimov's Science Fiction</i>), but the only fiction contributor to have two distinct entries in the Horsting/Van Hise volume. Not even Neil Gaiman, much less at time of the anthology's publication Lansdale, was as close as they are now to being nearly as prominent as Stephen King among the <i>MG</i> volume's contributors, which does have a rather lopsided representation of male to female contributors, vs. that of the <i>OR</i>.</b></span></div><ul class="defaultUL" style="list-style: inside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirgYpDAKRlvOuQ7QaW9_QAxVWBPv2pms_PN4Xp6_mvSTJ_KJrvgJL-hCJqgMdJ8SXq7wX4wtO-WFUBkFAqrx9T1At9ukGl7rundJVkIFIsbaiEAvu74cVANeXzZVvMF5O73Q24JScCtSWKPgzjoUpifIouQsFlV9ILl9Xtz-Py4PSUAJNyqIo4sQsaxA/s500/j.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirgYpDAKRlvOuQ7QaW9_QAxVWBPv2pms_PN4Xp6_mvSTJ_KJrvgJL-hCJqgMdJ8SXq7wX4wtO-WFUBkFAqrx9T1At9ukGl7rundJVkIFIsbaiEAvu74cVANeXzZVvMF5O73Q24JScCtSWKPgzjoUpifIouQsFlV9ILl9Xtz-Py4PSUAJNyqIo4sQsaxA/w400-h400/j.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Jessica Horsting</b><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></li>
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font-size: medium;">James Van Hise<br /><br /></span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwfY2HDIeC6NiuHSWI8ZieSHpUV72L_B_QuCH_NzFDph2ou5re5vOxvJNVQz5XondxyYzsNnBU4rJzUGNen68emotshW1LQmqBkXAV58tSiXzU6y2UGP21bPMiyoT-ljayuV-mRtjSBDtXpabC1UCgZ-ZQ_SNIs1Fn2DzS5Rqvw2ekz7QMDQCiLwStMw/s640/ray-jco.webp" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="640" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwfY2HDIeC6NiuHSWI8ZieSHpUV72L_B_QuCH_NzFDph2ou5re5vOxvJNVQz5XondxyYzsNnBU4rJzUGNen68emotshW1LQmqBkXAV58tSiXzU6y2UGP21bPMiyoT-ljayuV-mRtjSBDtXpabC1UCgZ-ZQ_SNIs1Fn2DzS5Rqvw2ekz7QMDQCiLwStMw/w640-h274/ray-jco.webp" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Raymond Smith and Joyce Carol Oates<br /></span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To read some individual issues and contents of those issues, please see</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://archive.org/search?query=%22midnight+graffiti%22">Midnight Graffiti</a></i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://repository.usfca.edu/ontarioreview/">Ontario Review</a></i></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For more of today's Short Story reviews, please see <a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2024/01/short-story-wednesday-conversation-with.html">Patti Abbott's blog.</a></span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-56786600964601887912024-01-10T02:22:00.011-05:002024-01-12T02:34:08.403-05:00Expanded Short Story Wednesday lists: 3/10 January 2024<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidk7IIrD5EYVR67joZSOVQnn-21bshM-_sLgvHBDHkYJrfpBoyQqfekWEhCW5HpvR421rbLQ7NrWLKCLldMGusNoy9Z-lU5YrIhOqgdLQQ2znOqhCsOySdNHyYKMd0tBH051bs91lvAuBf2hXDu617vz8d6RJDp-SHQn3vXLfhITt2kGLRQR5oyZ6LYE6W" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="360" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidk7IIrD5EYVR67joZSOVQnn-21bshM-_sLgvHBDHkYJrfpBoyQqfekWEhCW5HpvR421rbLQ7NrWLKCLldMGusNoy9Z-lU5YrIhOqgdLQQ2znOqhCsOySdNHyYKMd0tBH051bs91lvAuBf2hXDu617vz8d6RJDp-SHQn3vXLfhITt2kGLRQR5oyZ6LYE6W=w499-h640" width="499" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #1d2228; outline: none;"><a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2024/01/short-story-wednesday-conversation-with.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Patricia Abbott: </a>"</b><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="color: black; outline: none;"><a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2024/01/short-story-wednesday-conversation-with.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">A Conversation with My Father"</a> by Grace Paley </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k06/k06984.htm#A7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank"><i style="outline: none;">New American Review</i> #13, 1971</a>; <a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2024/01/short-story-wednesday-blue-island.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Stuart Dybek: "We Didn't" <i style="outline: none;">Antaeus</i> Spring 1993, edited by Daniel Halpern (as read by Dybek on video) and "Blue Island" <i style="outline: none;">The New Yorker</i>, 24 August 2023</a></b></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; outline: none;"><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://casualdebris.blogspot.com/2024/01/casual-shorts-isfdb-top-short-fiction.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;">Frank Babics: "The Lucky Strike" by Kim Stanley Robinson, </b></span><b style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><i style="outline: none;">Universe 14</i>, edited by Terry Carr. New York: Doubleday, June 1984;</span></b></a> <a href="https://casualdebris.blogspot.com/2023/12/casual-shorts-isfdb-top-short-fiction_20.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;">"Arena" by Frederic Brown, </b></span><b style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><i style="outline: none;">Astounding Science Fiction</i>, June 1944</span></b></a></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=10120" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Brad Bigelow: the novellas and visual art of Betty Swanwick</a></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b style="outline: none;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; outline: none;"><a href="https://locusmag.com/2024/01/terry-bisson-1942-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Terry Bisson </a></span></b><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><a href="https://locusmag.com/2024/01/terry-bisson-1942-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">(12 February 1942--10 January 2024):</a> </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="color: black; outline: none;"><a href="https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/bears-discover-fire/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">"Bears Discover Fire"</a>, (ss) </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k01/k01298.htm#A7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank"><i style="outline: none;">Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine</i> August 1990</a></b></span></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=86616" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Matthew Bradley: "Christmas Party" by Rex Stout, </a><span style="color: black; outline: none;">(na) </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k03/k03016.htm#A18" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank"><i style="outline: none;">Collier’s, </i>January 4 1957</a><span style="color: black; outline: none;">, as "The Christmas Party Murder"</span></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; outline: none;"><a href="https://brianbusby.blogspot.com/2023/11/basil-kings-great-change-of-life.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank"><br style="outline: none;" /></a></span></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://brianbusby.blogspot.com/2023/11/basil-kings-great-change-of-life.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Brian Busby: "Abraham's Bosom" by Basil King</a></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2024/01/guest-ssw-paul-di-filippo-on-space.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Paul Di Filippo: <i style="outline: none;">Space Science Fiction</i> September 1952, edited by Lester Del Rey</span></a></b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></b></span><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://doyouwriteunderyourownname.blogspot.com/2024/01/happiness-is-warm-gun-edited-by-josh.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Martin Edwards: <i style="outline: none;">Happiness is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Beatles</i> edited by Josh Pachter</a></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://sfshortstories.com/?p=6852" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Paul Fraser: from <i style="outline: none;">Unknown: Fantasy Fiction</i>, December 1939, edited by John W. Campbell: Five Fathoms of Pearls by James H. Beard;</a> <a href="https://sfshortstories.com/?p=6852" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">and "Johnny on the Spot" by Frank Belknap Long</a></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://rrhorton.blogspot.com/2024/01/double-novel-review-address-centauri-by.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Rich Horton: "If These Be Gods" by Algis Budrys, originally published as by "Gordon Javlyn" in <i style="outline: none;">Amazing Stories</i>, October 1957, edited (after a fashion) by Paul Fairman</a> <a href="https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56649" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">(this is the Special Flying Saucer Issue)</a>; <a href="https://rrhorton.blogspot.com/2023/12/review-zanzibar-cat-by-joanna-russ.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank"><i style="outline: none;">The Zanzibar Cat </i>by Joanna Russ</a></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><a href="https://jerryshouseofeverything.blogspot.com/2024/01/short-story-wednesday-ounce-of-cure-my.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank"><br style="outline: none;" /></a></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://jerryshouseofeverything.blogspot.com/2024/01/short-story-wednesday-ounce-of-cure-my.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;">Jerry House: stories by Alan E. Nourse: </b></span><b style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">"An Ounce of Cure" first published in <i style="outline: none;">Imaginative Tales</i>. November 1955; </span></b><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;">"My Friend Bobby" first published in <i style="outline: none;">Orbit,</i> No. 3, July-August 1954</b></span></a>; <span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://jerryshouseofeverything.blogspot.com/2024/01/short-story-wednesday-alfred-hitchcocks.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank"><i style="outline: none;">Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine</i>,, December 1956--first issue, edited by Willam Manners</a></b></span></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium; outline: none;"><a href="https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/2024/01/04/a-year-with-ellery-queen-december-1951/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" target="_blank">Kate Jackson: <i style="outline: none;">Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine</i>, edited by Frederic Dannay, December 1951;</a> </span><b style="outline: none;"><span style="font-size: medium; outline: none;"><a href="https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/2024/01/07/miscellanous-mystery-short-stories/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Cledwyn Huges: "Cockle-Gatherer"</a></span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; outline: none;"><span style="color: black; outline: none;"> (ss) </span><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k01/k01242.htm#A10" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank"><i style="outline: none;">Argosy (UK)</i> September 1958</a> <a href="https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/2024/01/07/miscellanous-mystery-short-stories/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">and Beryl Bruce: "Detective Dora",</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004DPADGY?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_4YJBHZ1N0637T0TFSRA5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank"><i style="outline: none;">Winning Through: Stories for Girls</i>, Thames Publishing 1948</a><br style="outline: none;" /></span></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2024/01/short-story-wednesday-miss-marple.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Tracy K: <i style="outline: none;">Miss Marple: The Complete Stories</i> by Agatha Christie</a></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="http://georgekelley.org/wednesdays-short-stories-157-why-dont-you-write-my-eulogy-now-so-i-can-correct-it-a-mothers-suggestions-by-patricia-marx-roz-chast/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">George Kelley: <i style="outline: none;">Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now, So I Can Correct It?: A Mother's Suggestions</i> by Patricia Marx and Roz Chast;</a> <a href="http://georgekelley.org/wednesdays-short-stories-156-the-christmas-mitzvah-by-jeff-gottesfeld/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank"><i style="outline: none;">The Christmas Mitzvah</i> by Jeff Gottesfeld, illustrated by Michelle Laurentia Agatha</a></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://inreferencetomurder.typepad.com/my_weblog/2024/01/fridays-forgotten-books-first-cases.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">B. V. Lawson:<i style="outline: none;"> First Cases: First Appearances of Classic Private Eyes</i> edited by Robert J. Randisi</a></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=86611" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Steve Lewis: <i style="outline: none;">Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact</i>, July 1967, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.</a></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"> </span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://lbcrimes.blogspot.com/2024/01/freezer-burn-by-april-kelly.html?spref=bl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Robert Lopresti: "Freezer Burn" by April Kelly, <i style="outline: none;">Mystery Magazine</i>, January 2024</a></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2019/02/ffb-ways-we-live-now-fiction-from.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Todd Mason: <i style="outline: none;">The Ways We Live Now: Contemporary Short Fiction from the</i> Ontario Review edited by Raymond J. Smith; <i style="outline: none;">Midnight Graffiti </i>edited by Jessica Horsting and James Van Hise;</a> <a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2024/01/ssw-short-stories-by-lyn-venable.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">"Time Enough at Last" and other short stories by Lyn Venable</a></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://ahotcupofpleasureagain.wordpress.com/2024/01/04/first-read-of-2024-the-christmas-peacemaker-by-virna-sheard-1900/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Neeru: "The Christmas Peacemaker" by Virna Sheard</a>, <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k06/k06996.htm#A10" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; font-style: italic; outline: none;" target="_blank">The New England Magazine</a><i style="outline: none;"> </i><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="outline: none;">v</span></b></span><b style="outline: none;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; outline: none;">23 #4, December 1900 <a href="https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20231214/html.php" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">(can be read here)</a></span></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></b></div><div style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><a href="https://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2024/01/the-martyr.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Katherine Anne Porter: "The Martyr" <i style="outline: none;">The Century</i>. July 1923</a></span></b></div><div style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></b></div><table border="0" style="outline: none; width: 100%;"><tbody style="outline: none;"></tbody></table><a href="https://jamesreasoner.blogspot.com/2023/12/spicy-zeppelin-stories-will-murray.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">James Reasoner:<i style="outline: none;"> Spicy Zeppelin Tales</i> by Will Murray</span></b></a><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2024/01/ffb-killer-in-rain-raymond-chandler.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Richard Robinson: <i style="outline: none;">Killer in the Rain</i> by Raymond Chandler</a></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://barebonesez.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-hitchcock-project-thomas-grant-part_01676378683.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank"><br style="outline: none;" /></a></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://barebonesez.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-hitchcock-project-thomas-grant-part_01676378683.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Jack Seabrook: "Hooked" by Robert Turner, <i style="outline: none;">Manhunt</i>, February 1958</a></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/12/ssw-jeff-segal-and-todd-mason-on-david.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Jeff Segal: on David Drake</a></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><a href="https://kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2024/01/short-story-wednesday-review-guilty.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Kevin Tipple: <i style="outline: none;">Guilty Crime Story Magazine</i>, Spring 2023, edited by Brandon Barrows</a></b></span></div><div style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; 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Venable): "Time Enough at Last" (the Twilight Zone favorite) and others: Short Story Wednesday (2 of 2)<p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2012/12/26/give-em-hill-el-cerrito-woman-lends-twilight-zone-inspiration/">Lyn Venable</a>'s work, <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?13531">as detailed by ISFDB</a> (there are also chapbooks and podcast readings/possibly dramatizations cited for some of these stories), including that endlessly-rerun <i>TZ</i> adaptation...at least one US digital broadcast network, H&I, and one cable station, SyFy [koff], dusted it off again for their New Year's Serling marathons:</span></b></p><p><b></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ5Y51XUFbVfKYON0xS-lVlPe5oG1d8T5ow0BDAtkXTICKHKtygLMe3wqO7Wup0Lh42byTER6S1E1_Pnm5rcfs67olFSNX7Qy26u2vcwZhXsGoOhsJY2MpMzqnLIwE_LHq38RythWLKe9EGHspm7xgi9t9Ji0IE7x355Zsk4bXGzlioNAfZBTNoWuRDjQA/s600/FANTUNIVJAN1957.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="434" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ5Y51XUFbVfKYON0xS-lVlPe5oG1d8T5ow0BDAtkXTICKHKtygLMe3wqO7Wup0Lh42byTER6S1E1_Pnm5rcfs67olFSNX7Qy26u2vcwZhXsGoOhsJY2MpMzqnLIwE_LHq38RythWLKe9EGHspm7xgi9t9Ji0IE7x355Zsk4bXGzlioNAfZBTNoWuRDjQA/s320/FANTUNIVJAN1957.jpg" width="231" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Featuring Lyn Venable's last? story (so far?)</b></td></tr></tbody></table><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Short Fiction</b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"></span></p><ul style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><li><a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?56293">Homesick</a> (<b>1952</b>) <b><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v05n03_1952-12.Galaxy/page/n74/mode/1up?view=theater">can be read online here</a></i></b>, and also appeared as: <ul><li><b>Translation:</b> <a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1475456" style="font-style: italic;">Le mal du pays</a> [French] (<b>1955</b>)</li><li><b>Translation:</b> <a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1555568" style="font-style: italic;">Krank vor Heimweh</a> [German] (<b>1958</b>)</li><li><b>Translation:</b> <a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2939349" style="font-style: italic;">향수</a> [Korean] (<b>2018</b>) [<b>as by</b> <div class="tooltip tooltipright" style="display: inline; position: relative;"><a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?334712">린 베너블</a><sup class="mouseover">?</sup><span class="tooltiptext tooltipnarrow tooltipright" style="background: white; border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid black; left: 62.75px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 3px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; visibility: hidden; width: 150px; z-index: 1;"></span></div>]</li></ul></li><li><a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?866441">Time Enough at Last</a><i> </i>(<b>1953</b>) <a href="https://archive.org/details/1953-01_IF/page/n96/mode/1up?view=theater"><b><i>can be read online here</i></b></a>, and also appeared as:<ul><li><b>Variant:</b> <a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?92904" style="font-style: italic;">Time Enough at Last</a> (<b>1953</b>) [<b>as by</b> <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?111178">Lynn Venable</a>] (<i>If</i>'s typo)</li><li><b>Variant:</b> <a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?983270" style="font-style: italic;">Time Enough at Last</a> (<b>1953</b>) [<b>as by</b> <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?121718">Lynn A. Venable</a>]</li><li><b>Translation:</b> <a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2941016" style="font-style: italic;">Endlich genug Zeit</a> [German] (<b>1987</b>) [<b>as by</b> <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?121718">Lynn A. Venable</a>]</li><li><b>Translation:</b> <a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2939341" style="font-style: italic;">핵폭탄의 부작용</a> [Korean] (<b>2017</b>) [<b>as by</b> <div class="tooltip tooltipright" style="display: inline; position: relative;"><a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?334710">마릴린 베너블</a><sup class="mouseover">?</sup><span class="tooltiptext tooltipnarrow tooltipright" style="background: white; border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid black; left: 89.975px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 3px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; visibility: hidden; width: 150px; z-index: 1;"></span></div>]</li></ul></li><li><a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?101305">Punishment Fit the Crime</a> (<b>1953</b>) <b><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/Other_Worlds_31v05n07_1953-07_cape1736/page/n129/mode/1up?view=theater">can be read online here</a></i></b></li><li><a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?79641">The Missing Room</a> (<b>1953</b>) <b><i><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QTStIDkkan9fNq78St8BEVn1mQlsMNEk/view">can be read online here</a></i></b></li><li><a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?861448">Doppelganger</a> (<b>1954</b>) <b><i><a href="https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/OC/MYSTIC_1954_01.pdf">can be read online here</a></i></b></li><li><a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?89816">Parry's Paradox</a> (<b>1955</b>) <b><i><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yHzOxo_mtYrHeQupf_zZqOS_d5epVYXz/view">can be read online here</a></i></b></li><li><a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?198723">Grove of the Unborn</a> (<b>1957</b>) <b><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Universe_v07n01_1957-01/page/n83/mode/1up?view=theater">can be read online here</a></i></b></li></ul><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lyn Venable, as far as I can tell, has only published seven short stories in her career, all of them in a stretch in the early-to-mid/late 1950s (1952-1957). The second to see print, and easily the most famous, was her 1953 story "Time Enough at Last" in <i>If: Worlds of Science Fiction</i> for January 1953, edited and published by James Quinn. The short story is less heavy-handed than <i>The Twilight Zone</i> adaptation, one of the most widely-loved of first-season episodes (1959, notably after Venable had apparently stopped publishing), though Burgess Meredith's crowd-pleasing performance probably helps there. The short story's Mr. Henry Bemis is competent at work and slightly better at getting around his controlling wife's resentment of his spending any time reading, vs. socializing or watching television with her...and the portrayal of atomic war and its aftermath is rather better-presented in the story than in the television episode (<i>TZ</i> Bemis seems to think he'll be able to leave books from a destroyed public library in stacks in the exposed rubble of the building and they not fall prey to weather, or other problems, for example...he's not quite so foolish in the short story). The current <i>Wikipedia</i> entry for Venable suggests that the story is akin to Ray Bradbury's <i>Fahrenheit 451</i>, which it is not, except to the degree that Bemis is kept from reading by (rather less overarching) villains. However, Venable does write in a mode that is not altogether unlike Bradbury's, and in a few of her stories with rather less fake naivete than RB might slip into...the ending of "Time Enough" has been roundly dismissed as cruel by at least one latter-day reviewer, rather than, as I suspect it was meant, as a metaphor for how much misery modern warfare and its potential for massacre place on even those who hope to find some way to cope with it. Seems a pity she didn't (or couldn't) continue into the early '60s, at very least, and no doubt be courted by Gamma magazine, the home of Bradbury (and Patricia Highsmith, both on rare occasion) and the "Little Bradburys", and perhaps be reprinted by Judith Merril in her anthologies.</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjHUxSeMWTOEyU0lYA81X_j1H_-qI7HRDkXdt7RUVfPtE1weOCcd6zal9gIe6AoBOwpJYq_ARXjxhQPZkvLDmU31uYmjYTLYH2ChhhyfdLEswdKDL-lQAKgqKeAYBxvVpJyMiM9I02rwOXttC1SV4ObWt2v3UWcA41Ga986ZALd5nXACzWwQhsOx-MmQrv/s500/51TLvUgtQXL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="367" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjHUxSeMWTOEyU0lYA81X_j1H_-qI7HRDkXdt7RUVfPtE1weOCcd6zal9gIe6AoBOwpJYq_ARXjxhQPZkvLDmU31uYmjYTLYH2ChhhyfdLEswdKDL-lQAKgqKeAYBxvVpJyMiM9I02rwOXttC1SV4ObWt2v3UWcA41Ga986ZALd5nXACzWwQhsOx-MmQrv/w294-h400/51TLvUgtQXL.jpg" width="294" /></a></div><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Her other best story, I'd suggest, from my quick whip-around her published work (I've yet to read her first, "Homesick", a 1952 publication in <i>Galaxy</i>, at that point the most popular and widely-imitated of the US sf magazines, and [since launched by an Italian firm moving into the US market] one with several foreign-language editions as early as its second year of publication), perhaps surprisingly, is the one published in a magazine that made an attempt to present itself as an essentially nonfictional magazine about supernatural phenomena, <i>Mystic</i>, while regularly publishing fiction written in no way "nonfictionally"...and edited by the team of Ray Palmer and Bea Mahaffey who were also producing <i>Other Worlds</i> and its sf/fantasy spinoff titles, before Mahaffey left and Palmer threw his fate in with all-woo-woo "nonfiction" with his magazines <i>Fate</i> and <i>Other Worlds</i> remade as <i>Flying Saucers from Other Worlds</i>. An historical borderline suspense/horror story (it can be interpreted as either "realistic" or "fantastic" depending on how much one trusts the characters' perception of events). "Doppelganger" involves a gravid woman in suddenly problematic labor, her desperate husband and the midwife, who in better times had helped deliver him, who is reluctantly called into service in the growing emergency...and what they make of the one baby delivered who is suddenly joined in his crib by a twin whom no one remembers from previously. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6BVl3EbUmGy8BUJMdSEc0PybX641HLJf8iwSnRFlDu1KJ4XszpkdFyAX_fdiFVg9AAaVHEL_PjgIOp1Fho5SobJ1_b0GT509hh-ARqO99fuTUIEc2WNMY5Rx5GZtSip4yxXbLa5tTHghO1yBnxg2Sf_IG4YFIvxu7yPGbsySd3ljfQsTqN0jjATYqIqUT/s469/OWSCSTJUL1953.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="323" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6BVl3EbUmGy8BUJMdSEc0PybX641HLJf8iwSnRFlDu1KJ4XszpkdFyAX_fdiFVg9AAaVHEL_PjgIOp1Fho5SobJ1_b0GT509hh-ARqO99fuTUIEc2WNMY5Rx5GZtSip4yxXbLa5tTHghO1yBnxg2Sf_IG4YFIvxu7yPGbsySd3ljfQsTqN0jjATYqIqUT/s320/OWSCSTJUL1953.jpg" width="220" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">But "Punishment Fit the Cr</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">ime" is a reasonably good variation on an Isaac Asimov sort of robot story, where a very specialized robot behaves in such a way that it is the one who needs protection from humans. This was Venable's one story in <i>Other Worlds</i>, and her only pair of stories to sell to the same editors, vs. "one-shots" in all her other markets. </span></b><p></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1gQOwEk7zKGd4oWkFrNL91bxZZFM-mckj6HUEOvAU8cyxYQj_sC1qleRN4de4tNuNnmriB9sUdVs74K7RsWRDKIHpM47Hz3VfUKdq4h5NpZyfnKv-GnU3CkrHU3mhw-vYexZI4IduPdr_TlJ4o8nJqonMdmEsDNwnwgM_0c6-XTEPAhK0b-b75vLTSmSv/s570/weird_tales_195307.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1gQOwEk7zKGd4oWkFrNL91bxZZFM-mckj6HUEOvAU8cyxYQj_sC1qleRN4de4tNuNnmriB9sUdVs74K7RsWRDKIHpM47Hz3VfUKdq4h5NpZyfnKv-GnU3CkrHU3mhw-vYexZI4IduPdr_TlJ4o8nJqonMdmEsDNwnwgM_0c6-XTEPAhK0b-b75vLTSmSv/s320/weird_tales_195307.jpg" width="225" /></a></b></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>While "The Missing Room" is a rather deft more-or-less straightforward sf story she sold to <i>Weird Tales</i>, which, under editor Dorothy McIlwraith, always open to certain kinds of science fiction with a menacing element to it...an open house in a future (perhaps even still) suburb (commuters use personal helicopters) turns out to be a kind of alien's specimen trap. That Venable sold most of her large handful of stories to editors who were women or men who were particularly interested in publishing women writers (Hans Stefan Santesson at <i>Fantastic Universe</i>, Quinn at <i>If</i>, and certainly Ray Palmer and <i>Galaxy</i>'s H. L. Gold weren't unwilling to publish women writers--given both her approach and subject matter, I'm a bit surprised that Anthony Boucher never took one of her stories for <i>F&SF</i>). Her last two stories are a notch lower in originality, at least, with her one story in a non-U.S. magazine, the UK <i>Authentic Science Fiction </i>item "Parry's Paradox", being a mildly clever but slight time-travel tale, and the Big Twist in the ending of her otherwise rather nicely-detailed story of a first-encounter with another humanoid species, "Grove of the Unborn", being a rather too foreseeable twist. </b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIe0Z8JNifhB_w3U1xHQagxxhyphenhyphenWK0ifXXW1bTbY8iBsob_x8jmNKHMTTUV3QpDYWBz4sQu-3Nah-vslrEbbkbXN2PLP1tj_w3xCcdOEsdy-LHxMp4qSuEXMVe0Vfe6RBXzf-iZHJMLOJLEs3OWbT9TsdHzZS3Gq-hJsqnDmwMOEEGKJvbUrSyzu763M6St/s600/AUTHENTIC571955.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="406" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIe0Z8JNifhB_w3U1xHQagxxhyphenhyphenWK0ifXXW1bTbY8iBsob_x8jmNKHMTTUV3QpDYWBz4sQu-3Nah-vslrEbbkbXN2PLP1tj_w3xCcdOEsdy-LHxMp4qSuEXMVe0Vfe6RBXzf-iZHJMLOJLEs3OWbT9TsdHzZS3Gq-hJsqnDmwMOEEGKJvbUrSyzu763M6St/w271-h400/AUTHENTIC571955.jpg" width="271" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>For more of today's Short Stories, please see <a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2024/01/short-story-wednesday-blue-island.html">Patti Abbott's blog</a>, and/or the post just before this one, <a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2024/01/guest-ssw-paul-di-filippo-on-space.html">Paul Di Filippo on an issue of Lester Del Rey's magazine <i>Space Science Fiction.</i></a></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrkebqzGIYrlTSlibm_GptFWnuYiVJsV1ZFFvdEN4HUpddbWqvV53_RaFkS-5_MDVn1JvHXK8zggxXtyosR8y-LCi-V0toj_vyTmjMSISerFMAXawQCU6cy0_iP-84m_dRluRhccHgrwLgJ37hQZSIjV8sx2gLSkjb3ST2tT0vdl_5xPs-q5zybNE9MAad/s300/short%20story%20wed%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrkebqzGIYrlTSlibm_GptFWnuYiVJsV1ZFFvdEN4HUpddbWqvV53_RaFkS-5_MDVn1JvHXK8zggxXtyosR8y-LCi-V0toj_vyTmjMSISerFMAXawQCU6cy0_iP-84m_dRluRhccHgrwLgJ37hQZSIjV8sx2gLSkjb3ST2tT0vdl_5xPs-q5zybNE9MAad/s1600/short%20story%20wed%20(1).jpg" width="300" /></a></div>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-4498125987561131262024-01-03T00:45:00.003-05:002024-01-04T19:27:37.286-05:00Guest SSW: Paul Di Filippo on SPACE SCIENCE FICTION magazine, September 1952, edited by Lester Del Rey: Short Story Wednesday (1 of 2)<div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">It took me months to work my way thru this 'zine at a page or two per night. If I seem hazy on the earlier stories in the TOC, that might be why! But I think I have given good valuations of them all. Overall, a decent issue with lots of entertainment but no classics and only one or two stinkers.</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://archive.org/details/Space_Science_Fiction_v01n02_1952-09/mode/2up?view=theater"><i>This issue can be read online here.</i></a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">First the cover, then the TOC, with my brief comments interlineated:</span></b></div><div><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5GjQOe6F2Le88d8n-GutbfNYETPKtvESkv0Ugu0PpdpyUhlOjd-pc6XoFQ79Srgxt6cSpHqIiaXeJro7dwyCdKf012rczKM5CiOuVo8FcYN3JhzF8Laipdh2PD1Yskxt6rZl6v2X5xaW9B_DdCzvD0xFYswnULqfYMfNVPYhZzNvm1wNn-VTQJM4OP5mw/s640/Screenshot%202024-01-01%20at%208.12.59%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJQKQcMnA1gDVzpD4IQ-afJFVFwfHaFOzCcLTR46dzzakE4fWXjhoNZqPMTH_2iUIHrBJc2YbVy3_gGimtR7mG4d_vvK-VJcPW3i91uYORuA3PtO_e9rJucxJUZJhXU1upvEdSj_Ci3vtZJod135eJ1IV3faSlozuPrtJTDQXvvj9ZbP2Omw3QgaxNg-Kk/s16000/space_science_fiction_195209_n2.jpg" /></a></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5GjQOe6F2Le88d8n-GutbfNYETPKtvESkv0Ugu0PpdpyUhlOjd-pc6XoFQ79Srgxt6cSpHqIiaXeJro7dwyCdKf012rczKM5CiOuVo8FcYN3JhzF8Laipdh2PD1Yskxt6rZl6v2X5xaW9B_DdCzvD0xFYswnULqfYMfNVPYhZzNvm1wNn-VTQJM4OP5mw/s640/Screenshot%202024-01-01%20at%208.12.59%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">2 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535793&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw1DaODW1QDrNL5Svv60NyUT" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535793" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Editorial (<i>Space Science Fiction</i>, September 1952)</a> • essay by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw1J9Bgkwsr2SO6j-clwrHPE" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Lester del Rey</a></span></b></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">4 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535737&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw3U4xYp82-LvPkYqfD503QL" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535737" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Moon-Blind</a> • novelette by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw1J9Bgkwsr2SO6j-clwrHPE" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Lester del Rey</a> [as by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?49651&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw1tU417Ma5xlXtgJnLN0GxA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?49651" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Erik Van Lhin</a>]</span></b></li></ul><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>1). The Del Rey lead-off story would have made a great <i>Twilight Zone</i> episode. A lone astronaut is sent to the Moon, and his promised return-trip vessel never shows. He manages (shades of Andy Weir) to survive and return to Earth, but back on Earth no one knows of him or his mission. The bulk of the story is an exercise in paranoia and weirdness, and the hurried conclusion—some unknown force is erasing all traces of any attempt by mankind to attain the stars—is weak by comparison. Basically never reprinted.</b></span></div><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">35 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?57013&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw1AOLEe0-ipxgr6YtHuZfnj" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?57013" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The Fence</a> • short story by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?55&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw1me2DhSHeip1FExeQRylFp" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?55" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Clifford D. Simak</a></span></b></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">35 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535757&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw2xJIRuNqANbuOVgedRqIni" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535757" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The Fence</a> • interior artwork by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?77897&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw0ajxrnGy_s9jWAkSMtyT01" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?77897" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Gari</a></span></b></li></ul><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>2). Simak’s piece has been much reprinted. In a post-scarcity world, our hero feels useless—and even more so when he discovers that mankind is part of a zoo exhibit of some sort.</b></span></div><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">47 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?68502&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw1l7DVZt2BxUM2Y3U0GzFt4" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?68502" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The God in the Bowl</a> • [<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?397&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw1gDWqoMH8g6S-9TEts-tzn" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?397" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Conan</a>] • short story by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?822&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw08PkHLnm9QkLDFp0mjaU4O" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?822" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Robert E. Howard</a></span></b></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">47 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535797&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw3IaV23e7IWGK-CYQ64YtHo" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535797" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The God in the Bowl</a> • interior artwork by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?77873&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw0gFKYyQ0e0-fG6TDkVeLa4" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?77873" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Schecterson</a></span></b></li></ul><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>3). Conan! What more need be said! [Uncredited "posthumous collaborator"] L. Sprague De Camp’s short intro opines that this must’ve been “one of the first Conan stories to be written.” A satisfying amount of gratuitous slaughter.</b></span></div><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">65 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535789&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw0spgi7cAEpPNPQWL25dYvH" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535789" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Science: Fact and Fiction (<i>Space Science Fiction</i>, September 1952)</a> • essay by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?459&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw2EmDT8QAD79TjKbcgJwOoz" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?459" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">George O. Smith</a></span></b></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">65 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535805&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw3bY-iQAYw33dJxc1gKAlKf" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535805" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Review</a>: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1694&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw3OKREJKHUtcnyKJmugC1BU" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1694" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Jack of Eagles</a> by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?7&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw2wwGj0doXcHour2Ii5dfJy" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?7" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">James Blish</a> • (1952) • review by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?459&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw2EmDT8QAD79TjKbcgJwOoz" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?459" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">George O. Smith</a></span></b></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">66 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535729&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw2_CBvdudlFuQZWoTQSKRmY" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535729" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">A Matter of Faith</a> • novella by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1360&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw07-zJHp_I5BE-7wFJ8gOcV" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1360" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Robert A. W. Lowndes</a> [as by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?18994&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw1nyNjaaOBngvKtthFdLnyN" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?18994" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Michael Sherman</a>]</span></b></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">66 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535733&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw2EaSO1Z38agMkHHROxw6tE" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535733" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">A Matter of Faith</a> • interior artwork by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?81873&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw1eh9ekbH-FNs_OMXOn1jFi" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?81873" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Peter Poulton</a> [as by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?77893&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw0GTVw4n72Jm59NZTSnZMvT" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?77893" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Poulton</a>]</span></b></li></ul><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>4). “Michael Sherman” was really R.A.W. Lowndes. Never reprinted. This is the worst thing I have read in a long time. In trawling thru old zines, I try to read every word and not skim, but I had to skip sections here after a while, as the story goes on for what seems an infinite span without anything happening. Our hero has some kind of secret, and is pursued on a cultish planet by authorities, until he isn’t, because he joins the establishment, but is always at risk of falling afoul of the strange customs. The kicker is that—like the <i>Star Trek</i> episode where the natives are reciting a garbled U.S. <i>Declaration of Independence</i>—the three rival planets here derive their culture from three forms of office shorthand! “Gregg, Pittman and Speedwriting.”</b></span></div><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">106 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535765&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw1PjSPX9b65MfaTCY0MvnSu" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535765" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The Barrier</a> • short story by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?257&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw02Wzpjjc_FVfZtY2Om19hk" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?257" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Murray Leinster</a></span></b></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">106 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535769&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw14TcHFitclmoR7Cr-Guyc-" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535769" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The Barrier</a> • interior artwork by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?26385&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw2UCqPZSfdgueWyLnnnPl8m" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?26385" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Paul Orban</a> [as by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?37421&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw0DfkRBenN0sz_G9o3_StSx" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?37421" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Orban</a>]</span></b></li></ul><div><div><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">5). "Leinster" gives us a competent but perfunctory tale. A basically Asperger’s-type hero sacrifices love to achieve FTL travel. Basically never reprinted.</span></b></div></div><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">119 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535809&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw2u-8uBEVt78AJvCts2zXoz" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535809" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Review</a>: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?878&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw2VHHaMvb0SGvWH-MvKPXUR" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?878" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The Weapon Makers</a> by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?58&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw1MKT16KOTG3VgzFWRmCGQj" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?58" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">A. E. van Vogt</a> • (1952) • review by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?459&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw2EmDT8QAD79TjKbcgJwOoz" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?459" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">George O. Smith</a></span></b></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">119 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535813&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw3PMqb5kmQfdOonv_YzqoEO" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535813" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Review</a>: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?34229&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw09E5v4jTRRjWkIhGX6okcf" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?34229" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Invaders of Earth</a> by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1381&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw34_BJG0jEI4cheFZf1m2RE" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1381" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Groff Conklin</a> • (1952) • review by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?459&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw2EmDT8QAD79TjKbcgJwOoz" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?459" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">George O. Smith</a></span></b></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">120 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535773&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw3anyEHWRmHlbnk54e6SUOl" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535773" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">With Wings</a> • short story by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1170&source=gmail&ust=1704306109032000&usg=AOvVaw3S9nExjskw7woQHC-Ipyad" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1170" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">John Jakes</a></span></b></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">120 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535777&source=gmail&ust=1704306109033000&usg=AOvVaw0ddmbfqnxE9lmvxp_419ff" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535777" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">With Wings</a> • interior artwork by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?77873&source=gmail&ust=1704306109033000&usg=AOvVaw2ng3dm9fcr4XiiyndU_0jl" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?77873" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Schecterson</a></span></b></li></ul><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>6). Jakes’s tale was about his 18th short fiction sale. A vignette about the sad fate a mutant boy. Never reprinted.</b></span></div><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">124 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?80336&source=gmail&ust=1704306109033000&usg=AOvVaw0UHWEfFo9Bem5egNr7JWYQ" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?80336" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Official Record</a> • novelette by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?532&source=gmail&ust=1704306109033000&usg=AOvVaw0npKGbHGnZbBWmda7lOqz8" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?532" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Fletcher Pratt</a></span></b></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">124 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535749&source=gmail&ust=1704306109033000&usg=AOvVaw0dtwX2FydTT8zN6UOoIDAL" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535749" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Official Record</a> • interior artwork by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?77873&source=gmail&ust=1704306109033000&usg=AOvVaw2ng3dm9fcr4XiiyndU_0jl" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?77873" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Schecterson</a></span></b></li></ul><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>7). Pratt’s story has some sardonic humor and satire, as it chronicles a reconnaissance expedition into the territory of a former enemy that had been blockaded for decades while a deliberately deployed war virus has been allowed to run rampant. Some nice biopunk ideas still topical today. Of course, the “superior” invaders are quickly bamboozled and the table is turned. Sparsely reprinted.</b></span></div><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">143 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535781&source=gmail&ust=1704306109033000&usg=AOvVaw1z586X8Qv8Wxx47yR55evK" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535781" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The Revisitor</a> • short story by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?93&source=gmail&ust=1704306109033000&usg=AOvVaw2Bp9t83flhwmA73FVvUz3K" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?93" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Theodore L. Thomas</a></span></b></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">143 • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535785&source=gmail&ust=1704306109033000&usg=AOvVaw0dQoWkM6XeuiC6VE_L-m_z" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535785" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The Revisitor</a> • interior artwork by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?77897&source=gmail&ust=1704306109033000&usg=AOvVaw1pwylYhkhpW96oFxVpsyRv" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?77897" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Gari</a></span></b></li></ul><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>8). Society is ruled by a Van Vogtian system that tests all citizens for their moral qualities. Thomas depicts the ramifications of this nicely—imagine politicians who are altruistic and trustworthy!—but then wraps the conceit in the notion that omnipotent aliens secretly watching Earth will utilize the system to deem humanity worth saving or needing destruction. This part seems unnecessary and at odds with the core conceit. Never reprinted.</b></span></div><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">bc • <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535801&source=gmail&ust=1704306109033000&usg=AOvVaw3Twv3LDZ-yIIBTv27uRq_l" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?535801" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Meet Paul Orban</a> • essay by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?26385&source=gmail&ust=1704306109033000&usg=AOvVaw2C3jALcwCsYx0t-_qPpgTR" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?26385" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Paul Orban</a></span></b></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><b><i>original text Copyright </i></b><a data-ved="2ahUKEwizja_swMCDAxXELFkFHb0uCu4QFnoECBQQAw" href="https://symbolcopyright.com/#:~:text=You%20can%20either%20use%20the,2024%20%5BYour%20name%5D%22." jsname="UWckNb" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://symbolcopyright.com/%23:~:text%3DYou%2520can%2520either%2520use%2520the,2024%2520%255BYour%2520name%255D%2522.&ved=2ahUKEwizja_swMCDAxXELFkFHb0uCu4QFnoECBQQAw&sqi=2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); background-color: white; color: #1a0dab; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><h3 class="LC20lb MBeuO DKV0Md" style="display: inline-block; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 26px; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;">©</h3></a><b><i>2024 by Paul Di Filippo; index/cover image courtesy ISFDB.</i></b></li></ul><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>And, elsewhere, </i><a href="https://galacticjourney.org/sign-me-up-january-1969-amazing/">John Boston</a><i> was moved to comment on the Lowndes-story assessment</i></span><i>:</i></b></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"><b>Sherman/Lowndes's "A Matter of Faith" was later booked by Avalon in 1961 as BELIEVERS' WORLD, presumably with some expansion, even allowing for the large type and wide margins that publisher favored. Interestingly (well, not very), Lowndes was editing their SF line at the time. I had a similar reaction to yours 60-plus years ago, though unencumbered by any self-imposed obligation to finish it, and I didn't. </b> </span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;" /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY9ICKnlSvSa1T1YG7gISJ-5lYc2-L9YDRb-9-fuXHY4325o3i0ie7d_9UHC3VQ6D2uOBJ8h0TY4juBSMkl4p2K-iJU4I-mPSxaEbTkUWwn516xNRR46z4T2lb5rI-iH2MraxUupAw2Yp6w1twzEJivIRFNkLVE-DDfl_UNUgMg2kjOUwHzvX6JLAHGh6J/s300/short%20story%20wed%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY9ICKnlSvSa1T1YG7gISJ-5lYc2-L9YDRb-9-fuXHY4325o3i0ie7d_9UHC3VQ6D2uOBJ8h0TY4juBSMkl4p2K-iJU4I-mPSxaEbTkUWwn516xNRR46z4T2lb5rI-iH2MraxUupAw2Yp6w1twzEJivIRFNkLVE-DDfl_UNUgMg2kjOUwHzvX6JLAHGh6J/s1600/short%20story%20wed%20(1).jpg" width="300" /></a></div>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-57650902936953255332023-12-27T04:37:00.017-05:002023-12-29T00:02:14.225-05:00SSW: Jeff Segal and Todd Mason on David Drake, 24 September 1945-10 December 2023<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgUebBMB4lMAJ1IqLwDBnSccwelmsSVevy326tvM7BmVHVOIs3FuqvFsAfeLxkFCo99DNBDJW1956s5iIB1EKaoD2bcSYz6PCezlDfNsCFWHixEJtIU4nPeEJ_67FNpOkS_9BIq56wZ_2N5i0aWN2zVvmfgqCVjFDVW3jFRZfGdHbTAluqpscVZih0xqm6" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="313" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgUebBMB4lMAJ1IqLwDBnSccwelmsSVevy326tvM7BmVHVOIs3FuqvFsAfeLxkFCo99DNBDJW1956s5iIB1EKaoD2bcSYz6PCezlDfNsCFWHixEJtIU4nPeEJ_67FNpOkS_9BIq56wZ_2N5i0aWN2zVvmfgqCVjFDVW3jFRZfGdHbTAluqpscVZih0xqm6=w427-h640" width="427" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://david-drake.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">Drake's portrait on his website</span></a>;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://david-drake.com/topic/10-newsletters/"><span style="font-size: large;">his blog/newsletters</span></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEik2i6pGDi-cinCWQa9bToxhb3a3i4XOR_tC2_RI5DNKNbyeCUJEjpCSC0Mcyt-ewzMTcmQumgLuSDzWlJB4iWZXMgMqVJdqPpswMtMcy5V5uqZBeb32DGk93koGC-VpT4DjNLHYnzVJdN_l0chsTDVEPPKF2kKiTMFyoTQQ5_Ivc_EAjC2m2Y78T2FbyAR" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="368" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEik2i6pGDi-cinCWQa9bToxhb3a3i4XOR_tC2_RI5DNKNbyeCUJEjpCSC0Mcyt-ewzMTcmQumgLuSDzWlJB4iWZXMgMqVJdqPpswMtMcy5V5uqZBeb32DGk93koGC-VpT4DjNLHYnzVJdN_l0chsTDVEPPKF2kKiTMFyoTQQ5_Ivc_EAjC2m2Y78T2FbyAR=w368-h640" width="368" /></a></span></div><p></p><ul style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series V</b> ed. <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/d00/d00061.htm#A190">Gerald W. Page</a> (DAW, July 1977, 0-87997-311-0, $1.50, 237pp, pb)</span><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">7 · Introduction · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n07/n07088.htm#A121">Gerald W. Page</a> · in</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">9 · The Service · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n08/n08708.htm#A99">Jerry Sohl</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k06/k06304.htm#A4"><i>The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</i> February 1976</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">17 · Long Hollow Swamp · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n01/n01103.htm#A171">Joseph Payne Brennan</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k00/k00338.htm#A12"><i>Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine</i> January 1976</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">27 · Sing a Last Song of Valdese [<a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/l00/l00210.htm#A15"><i>Kane</i></a>] · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n09/n09629.htm#A130">Karl Edward Wagner</a> · nv <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k02/k02607.htm#A15"><i>Chacal</i> v1 #1, 1976</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">44 · Harold’s Blues · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n08/n08566.htm#A112">Glen Singer</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k03/k03390.htm#A11"><i>Cthulhu: Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos</i> #1, 1976</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">56 · The Well · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n06/n06705.htm#A52">H. Warner Munn</a> · nv</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">94 · A Most Unusual Murder · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n00/n00879.htm#A149">Robert Bloch</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k03/k03941.htm#A6"><i>Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine</i> March 1976</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">107 · Huzdra · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n05/n05523.htm#A77">Tanith Lee</a> · ss</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">126 · Shatterday · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n02/n02864.htm#A151">Harlan Ellison</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k04/k04715.htm#A6"><i>Gallery</i> September 1975</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">140 · Children of the Forest · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n02/n02652.htm#A57">David Drake</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k06/k06304.htm#A13"><i>The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</i> November 1976</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">159 · The Day It Rained Lizards · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n02/n02050.htm#A21">Arthur Byron Cover</a> · ss</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">179 · Followers of the Dark Star · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n00/n00157.htm#A192">Robert Edmond Alter</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k06/k06858.htm#A4"><i>Mystery Monthly</i> August 1976</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">194 · When All the Children Call My Name · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n03/n03745.htm#A97">Charles L. Grant</a> · ss</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">214 · Belsen Express · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n05/n05548.htm#A82">Fritz Leiber</a> · ss <b>The Second Book of Fritz Leiber</b> by Fritz Leiber, DAW, 1975</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">227 · Where the Woodbine Twineth · <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n09/n09838.htm#A42">Manly Wade Wellman</a> · ss <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k06/k06304.htm#A12"><i>The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</i> October 1976</a></span></li></ul></ul><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Todd Mason:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As readers of </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">this blog migh</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t've seen before, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the fif</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">th volume of </span><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Year's Bes</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t Horror S</span></i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>tories: Series V</i> edi</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ted by Gerald W. Page, was a kind of revela</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tion </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">to me...evidence </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tha</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t such favori</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">te wri</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ters of mine already as Rober</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t Bloch, Fri</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tz Leiber, Manly Wade Wellman, Harlan Ellison and Joseph Payne Brennan were s</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">till ac</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tively wri</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ting new work...and look a</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t all </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">their similarly-ac</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tive peers, whose work I would read in </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">this volume for </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the firs</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">time (hell, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tani</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">th Lee, Ar</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">thur Byron Cover, H. Warner Munn and Charles Gran</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t had new, previously unpublished s</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tories in </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the book). And one of </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the wri</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ters new </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">to me, wi</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">th an elegan</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t dark his</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">torical fan</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tasy (reprin</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ted from <i>F&SF</i>)</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">, was <a href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/drake_david_a">David Drake</a>...and I would come </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">to welcome his shor</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t s</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tories in </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">this mode and rela</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ted ones over </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the nex</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t decade as I found and read </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">them, in <i><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Year%E2%80%99s+Best+Horror+Stories">YBHS</a></i>, in </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the <i><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/search?q=First+World+Fantasy+Awards">Firs</a></i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/search?q=First+World+Fantasy+Awards">t World Fan</a></i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/search?q=First+World+Fantasy+Awards">tasy Awards</a></i> volume edi</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ted by Gahan Wilson, in <a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/search?q=whispers"><i>Whispers </i>an</a></span><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/search?q=whispers"><span style="font-family: georgia;">thologies (and, even</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tually, in issues of </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the magazine </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the an</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">thologies were mos</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tly drawn from--which Drake helped pu</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">toge</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ther</span></a><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/search?q=whispers">)</a>, and in <i><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?62640">Fan</a></i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?62640">tas</a></i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?62640">tic</a></i> and <a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/09/ssw-superhorror-aka-far-reaches-of-fear.html">Ramsey Campbell's an</a></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/09/ssw-superhorror-aka-far-reaches-of-fear.html">thology <i>Superhorror</i>,</a> in <a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2014/09/ffb-anthologies-of-kirby-mccauley-1941.html">Kirby McCauley's an</a></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2014/09/ffb-anthologies-of-kirby-mccauley-1941.html">thology <i>Frigh</i></a></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2014/09/ffb-anthologies-of-kirby-mccauley-1941.html">ts</a>...</i>and </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the only non-fan</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tasy/horror s</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tory in </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the ma</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">terials I had a</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t hand was a "Hammer's Slammers" s</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tory in an issue of <i>Des</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>tinies</i>, a paperback magazine edi</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ted by James Baen for Ace Books, which was </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the las</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t sf magazine my fa</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ther would buy for himself, in</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">to early 1979. I</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t didn'</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t make as much of an impression on me. Even</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tually, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I had a secondhand copy of </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the firs</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Hammer's Slammers </i>an</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">thology, bu</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t only read some of i</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t, wi</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">thou</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t ge</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ting caugh</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t up in i</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t--Jeff Segal had a much more engaged (and sensible) response.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">David Drake con</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tinued </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">to do in</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">teres</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ting work in likely and unlikely places over </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the nex</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t several decades, un</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">til recen</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t ill-heal</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">th kep</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t him from wri</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ting fic</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tion any longer, bu</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t I had los</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">track of his work, while being aware of i</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t being in </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the marke</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tplace. I should s</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">till pick up some of his an</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">thologies along wi</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">th some of his novels and cer</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tainly his collec</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tions I le</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t slip by. (I was a bi</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t la</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">te on </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the scene </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">to buy mos</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t of</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> his and Karl Wagner's <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubs_not_in_series.cgi?1862">Carcosa collec</a></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubs_not_in_series.cgi?1862">tions</a> of Manly Wade Wellman's work and o</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">thers when </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">they were new.)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Unsurprisingly, he has been remembered as a gracious friend and acquain</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tance by many, even </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">those who migh</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t never, say, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">take par</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t in, nor read, his collabora</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tion on one book wi</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">th New</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t Gingrich and Marianne Gin</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ther (a</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">time, s</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">till married </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">to Gingrich). And among his fans who go</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">to know him ra</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ther be</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ter </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">than I did is my old friend <a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/search?q=jeff+segal">Jeff Segal:</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRqvXrYtjqMi7sylEoyhWjIGGraazgPKHjHH1LvDFc4_XBKT-YZcqs34L71GOO-mPQ8iroZRNkaztApcjGjGtEUF1KmcSF7kPxJmMKsfN8lWuOZHx5capu_YC30hITmrlo_Yo-A1g2J3WqORQawxBlEounxcFygEMlapb7zA0S0eX1rxAEiyp2vHMNiOP_/s600/89Vettius.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="371" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRqvXrYtjqMi7sylEoyhWjIGGraazgPKHjHH1LvDFc4_XBKT-YZcqs34L71GOO-mPQ8iroZRNkaztApcjGjGtEUF1KmcSF7kPxJmMKsfN8lWuOZHx5capu_YC30hITmrlo_Yo-A1g2J3WqORQawxBlEounxcFygEMlapb7zA0S0eX1rxAEiyp2vHMNiOP_/w248-h400/89Vettius.jpeg" width="248" /></a></div></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jeff Segal:</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">An especially important author, and sometimes-editor, in my reading evolution, along with his late friends and associates Karl Edward Wagner and Manly Wade Wellman (though my appreciation of Wellman really kicked-in later, as I matured enough to
appreciate the authentically Appalachian se</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">tings</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> of a lot of his horror
and fantasy fiction).</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The first Drakes that ripped into my awareness were: one of his I-was-there Vietnam War-set horrors, the vignette "Best of Luck"; and the historical axe & sorcery (or is it sorcery?) chiller "The Barrow Troll", a tale with one of Drake's bitterly ironic finales.</span></p><div style="background-color: white;"><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Drake was a vocal advoca</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">te</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> for fantastic fiction, especially pulp magazine-era stories, and both his short fic</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">tion </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and novels often served as tributes to neglected books. Publishers Tor and Baen Books have repackaged his short fiction in many combinations, but also encouraged him to promote and harken back </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">to</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> worthy novels and stories by other hands, which </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">too </span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">of</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ten</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> had been half-forgotten over the decades. For example, his dark tale "The Automatic Rifleman" was inspired by Fritz Leiber's "The Automatic Pistol", which he also heartily recommended </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">to his readers,</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> and I would finally track i</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">t</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> down some years afterward (Leiber's classic <i>Weird </i></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>Tales</i> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">s</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">tory</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> opts for a supernatural premise, ra</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ther </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">than the apocalyptic-sf direction Drake employed). </span></span></div><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-xkuG9U7d01f3btuWFlwJ6566ayPv6sSsaoxarlcjYzYS-GOiUoshL9xt13KIPa7tlAeY8RCanLMRbhQ66nw9wFIndLH53XiKiWUwLhVQdBioiLMZBaAiOiLJqr5xVMpTIAF2ik2E5DCeVpBQ2Nd5c237E_zBQqxmY1F4bKkAG33vvVivfCu28M3fFWHO/s500/anabasis.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-xkuG9U7d01f3btuWFlwJ6566ayPv6sSsaoxarlcjYzYS-GOiUoshL9xt13KIPa7tlAeY8RCanLMRbhQ66nw9wFIndLH53XiKiWUwLhVQdBioiLMZBaAiOiLJqr5xVMpTIAF2ik2E5DCeVpBQ2Nd5c237E_zBQqxmY1F4bKkAG33vvVivfCu28M3fFWHO/w265-h400/anabasis.jpeg" width="265" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I wro</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">te </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">to him, and even</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">tually</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> we corresponded about failed military missions; he steered me toward a classic</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, <i>The March Up Country: A Translation of Xenophon's </i><b>Anabasis</b><i>,</i> a primary-source historical and inspirational work (which </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">the multi-lingual Drake likely read in its original Greek), and I dipped into i</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">t </span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">recently when studying the evolution of Walter Hill's movie <i>The Warriors</i> (1979) (<i>Anabasis </i>inspired bo</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">th </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">the Sol Yurick source-novel and </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">the film</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space-collapse: preserve;">).</span></span></div><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
</span><div style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">My first exposure to the "Hammer's Slammers" mercenary yarns which made Drake famous...or notorious...was in a </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">seco</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ndhand copy of the 1979 Ace paperback collection wi</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">th</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> tha</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ti</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tle</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">. The stories, reinforced with contextual </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">essays, displayed the universe from </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">he POV of a far-future </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">frontline </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">warfighter. One of them, "Cultural Conflict", reads like a critique of </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the film</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Alien</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>s,</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> excep</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t i</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t was</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> published half a decade before that movie dominated the 1986 summer boxoffice (I saw it </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">three</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> times </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">in theaters). I read the collection too swiftly and the effect of its concentrated violence was somewhat sickening at first, until I broke down how Drake achieved his effects on a literary level. The Slammers stories, and eventually novels and role-playing games, hammered Drake's name into the world of science fiction, though I'd argue that his finest military-oriented sf novel was the standalone <i>Redliners</i> (1996), which he admitted was a cathartic experience to write, allowing him </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">to </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">expel the toxins of war he hadn't known he still carried. It is also a magnificen</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> achievement in creating, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">to borrow Harry Harrison's </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">term,</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> a "deathworld".</span></span></div><div style="color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDT1icp0Uc73mCBK8VICWQb5dU8gsSoLTxO1AGxcpsM7_qRCpc8aiszzHxZN4TKXU41fH0bMbKGK8T9fqFJvKNAhu415Rot86daaOcMXWXftjDyQlnNVKnXJv6Dxo-_c5R8xip-Jgm7Lnj_OJWhMVD-LbA4TjXFpg-73yZz-m90Tbfif-P-4r82W_CpapL/s1500/redlinesrs%20drake.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="987" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDT1icp0Uc73mCBK8VICWQb5dU8gsSoLTxO1AGxcpsM7_qRCpc8aiszzHxZN4TKXU41fH0bMbKGK8T9fqFJvKNAhu415Rot86daaOcMXWXftjDyQlnNVKnXJv6Dxo-_c5R8xip-Jgm7Lnj_OJWhMVD-LbA4TjXFpg-73yZz-m90Tbfif-P-4r82W_CpapL/w422-h640/redlinesrs%20drake.jpg" width="422" /></a></div></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">
</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Drake's writing style, distinctly lean and ruthlessly efficient, and his raptor's eye for detail, plus his obsessions and quirks, would often stretch creative muscle over simple or awkward plotting. A </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">case in point is <i>The Dragon Lord</i>, one of my favorite novels of his, a savage take on historical myth with the Camelot crowd, warts and all, serving as supporting players--its wonky back-and-forth traveling plot-structure was more than balanced by the quality </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">of the writing, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">research and some engaging characters (traveling and quests are often a part of Drake's longer works regardless of genre; for instance, his <i>Lord of Isles </i>cycle, an epic set almost a 1000 years after a fantasy world's apocalypse, is charmingly </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">told</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">, for all i</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">s ambition, in the kind of simple structure that Edgar Rice Burroughs buil</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> a successful career around--scatter your protagonists and send them off on separate adventures, while having them attempt to find one another). </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">And <i>The Dragon Lord </i>demonstrated another of the author's talents: the ability to craft credibly menacing creatures with genuine impact and weight; the epic's maturing wyvern, conjured into the world by the scraggly Merlin at the behest of a typically cynical and </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Drake-esque King Arthur, intended to be employed as a WMD against those pesky Saxons, is used sparingly throughout the book...but it comes across as one helluva intimidating threat by the climax of the story.</span></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">
</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Drake was adept in wri</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ting</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> horror (primarily in short s</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tori</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">es), fantasy (often based in realistically-rendered historical backdrops, though some of his work </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">thus</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> was set in newly-created worlds), and science fiction, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the las</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t in</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> harsh military-sf or similarly rugged space opera. He had no qualms about mixing genres. The first and stronger of his two Tom Kelly espionage novels, <i>Skyripper</i>, is as devotedly a Cold War pursuit-thriller as any of its early-Reagan-era ilk, the McGuffin involving a </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">cracked, ingenious Soviet scientist who wants to defect to the US in order to share his conceptual space-warfare plans with Uncle Sam to ward off "an alien invasion" he claims will occur...but there are hints that something is "off" during the brutal multi-threat </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">spy hunt, which results in a hell of an ending, in </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tradi</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tion of </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean THEY aren't after you.”</span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">
</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Drake had many interests I share, which would continuously come roaring into his fiction (paleozoology, for instance). History, myth and classical-era literature were in</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tegral </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">to much </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">of his bibliography, rather like a bloodthirsty Roger Zelazny (Zelazny's </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family: georgia;">1969 novel <i>Damnation Alley</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> offered a proto-Drake hardman in a killer vehicle on a nightmare-filled </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">deathworld </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">road-trip). Drake also demons</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tra</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ted</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> some fascinating contradictions, such as delight in battle-glory action-filled sword & sorcery s</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tories</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> by Robert Howard, and Fritz Leiber (whose Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser bromance tales were repeatedly a big influence on Drake's own characters, fantasy and otherwise) but...Drake's own haunted Vietnam War service acquainted him</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> with the effects of genuine brutality, where there is little glory. <i>[And Leiber, who leaned </i></span><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">toward pacifism, was very aware of </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">this in a way </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tha</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t Howard was no</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t. --</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tm]</span></i></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Karl Edward Wagner and Drake cowrote a short story that was published in </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the </span><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>1974 firs</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t </span><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>issue of </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the "li</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tle"/"semi-pro" fan</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tasy-fic</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tion magazine <i><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?329440">Midnigh</a></i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?329440">t Sun</a></i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>. The tale predated the cult films <i>Without Warning</i> (1980) and <i>Predator</i> (1987) but anticipated something of the alien hunter/predator-on-Earth scenario, though set in ancient Rome. In the '80s, Drake and Wagner nursed the tale into a full-length novel, <i>Killer</i>, which I enjoyed, despite Drake's bad experience with this particular project. The Roman Empire and its frontiers provided a backdrop for his cycle of short bromance his</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">torical fan</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tasies</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> featuring the lethal Centurion, Vettius, and his cunning two-fisted merchant pal Dama, as they confront menaces both human and unnatural. Rome also was the setting or inspiration for some of his other short </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">and long fiction. He may have gained a larger audience with the short tale "Ranks of Bronze", which, along with Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game", I first encountered in the initial volume of Jerry Pournelle's anthology <i>There Will Be War</i>. "Bronze" </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="color: #050505;">was expanded into a well-received </span><i>Bildungsroman</i><span style="color: #050505;"> novel, which inspired some follow-up books (I firs</span></span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia;">t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="color: #0066cc;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia;">learned about <i>Bildungsromane</i> on his <a href="https://david-drake.com/ ">website</a>, </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia;">an invaluable resource for his fans and scholars). </span></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9AvXWXfhh3H2et3aOmXT28d4aYAC49HC2pgKcqJiiuJkUvQZYI0xdXp33TGfB5IicNPd4zgeN_z6Ec802VxIfN211oG4pXrpBiyxuI_sy0zk_xPXG8q4SegTVJ7QP0rD5ORMa0cxvp2g3BlPH05iSO_aqoQTTnswMmSOWvtSumPj4Pxxh0PN-OSQThA9P/s600/dragon%20lord.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="371" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9AvXWXfhh3H2et3aOmXT28d4aYAC49HC2pgKcqJiiuJkUvQZYI0xdXp33TGfB5IicNPd4zgeN_z6Ec802VxIfN211oG4pXrpBiyxuI_sy0zk_xPXG8q4SegTVJ7QP0rD5ORMa0cxvp2g3BlPH05iSO_aqoQTTnswMmSOWvtSumPj4Pxxh0PN-OSQThA9P/w397-h640/dragon%20lord.jpeg" width="397" /></a></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">
</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Not all of Drake's work "popped" for me. For instance, the first and only novel in his proposed "Crystal Walls" series, <i>The Sea Hag</i>, displayed some lively imagination but fell short of the Jack Vance-ian heights he was aiming for. And the follow up to <i>Skyripper</i> seemed to be set in an alternate universe where the conundrum the first book had been building up to was erased. However, a lot of his odd experiments rocked. I warmed up to his "RCN" space-opera series, based, sometimes literally, on Patrick O'Brian's his</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">torical</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Aubrey/Maturin novels. His expansion of Jim Kjelgaard's 1951 paleoli</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">thic</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> novel </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Fire Hunter, </i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>The Hunter Returns</i>, enthralled me as much as the original had. His two novels based on Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore's "Clash By </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Night", <i>The Jungle</i> and <i>Surface Action, </i>were crammed full of terra-formed Venusian future-naval dreadnaught engagements and horror-choked jungles and seas, another striking deathworld. His take on the Cthulhu Mythos, by way of Joseph Conrad, "Than Curse the Darkness",</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">was a uniquely feral entry into the pantheon and provided a frightening and absolutely inhuman interpretation of Nyarlathotep, the Dweller in Darkness itself; no chatty Dark Man avatar for this version of the Crawling Chaos (unlike the walking dudes of Robert Bloch's early "The Shadow from the Steeple" and Stephen King's much la</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ter</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <i>The Stand</i>)--Drake's Nyarlathotep was an other-dimensional alien cancer attempting to metastasize throughou</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> our world, summoned to the Congo by those who had been maimed by the Colonials. After humanity </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">has been granted a breather to continue existing, the survivors reflect upon the situation; an American gunslinger, retained as a bodyguard, realizes that he and the singularly unempathic party he is with are the "good guys" and has himself a good laugh. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">A patented David Drake approach to their victory. That yarn scarred me quite deeply as did a lot of Drake's other efforts.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">
</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Finally, he could be quite prescient. His three "Jed Lacey" stories, involving a diagnosed sociopath who is subjected to a behavior-modifying aversion/Ludovico Technique due to his crimes, but who is subsequently "repurposed" as an investigator because he's useful to his AI-governed society, is set in a "Nation without Walls," a near-future United States riddled with omnipresent surveillance technology...a reality accepted by much of the population. When these stories began appearing in the 1970's, a Nation without Walls must have seemed comfortably like fanciful speculative fiction to most readers... </span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">
</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">David Drake and his contributions won't be forgotten by me.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">--Jeff Segal</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">For more of today's shor</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t-s</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tory pos</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ts, please see <a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2023/12/short-story-wednesday-wife-on-ambien-ed.html">Pa</a></span><a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2023/12/short-story-wednesday-wife-on-ambien-ed.html"><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ti Abbo</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t's blog.</span></a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmNK5mQyzeZW6WE7mSx7O2zAIJ-4inWjgoIq1J_7c8o2rm8ZMqkaNjvNzLQgBqdGkj_Ab2mLT53Anr_6fMeDQyk_P_3Ntl_ra4Dr-jSS9BeMHdK2nnV1xSyv2ToT2ZgmrfEv0X01r4dMWGcgy9h4lmb_GwTSiQ_FEBHyTycI8n1p78UWPU8qW1QD2v0JxZ/s300/short.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmNK5mQyzeZW6WE7mSx7O2zAIJ-4inWjgoIq1J_7c8o2rm8ZMqkaNjvNzLQgBqdGkj_Ab2mLT53Anr_6fMeDQyk_P_3Ntl_ra4Dr-jSS9BeMHdK2nnV1xSyv2ToT2ZgmrfEv0X01r4dMWGcgy9h4lmb_GwTSiQ_FEBHyTycI8n1p78UWPU8qW1QD2v0JxZ/w400-h224/short.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div></div>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-24649532365351585852023-12-23T01:41:00.022-05:002023-12-31T19:16:01.717-05:001959 Jazz Albums and the Grammys: Saturday Music Club<div><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/PKYa3wwc1SU?si=hXv-HnmJnHUPa1iJ" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PKYa3wwc1SU/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe><b><br /></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">1959: The Year Tha</span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><i>t</i></span><i><span style="font-size: large;"> Changed Jazz</span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://the1959project.com/"><br /></a></span></i></span></div><div><a href="https://the1959project.com/"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span>The 1959 Projec</span></i></span><i style="font-family: georgia;">t</i></b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/cQ-XTwIPvPQ?si=f8z0FCCIXdRKghTH" width="480"></iframe></span></i></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Lamber</span></i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">t, Hendricks & Ross:</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></i></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Ho</b></span></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">t</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">tes</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">t New Group in Jazz</span></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/XBWXOAeo3e0?list=OLAK5uy_nVzvu6htP-MIytBqs6Mesp6yJJEWYAgxs&si=XEp_XZEQ-3lgJfuX" width="480"></iframe></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span>Max Roach Quin</span></i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>te</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>t: </i></span></span></b><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The </b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Many Sides of Max</span></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/AElsKE48Gac?si=5sr54XCaPB_c5CFq" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AElsKE48Gac/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Toshiko Akiyoshi:</i> "</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;">The Village"</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/_hheqQfFOh8?si=AsZyQd2lIhfiUanZ" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_hheqQfFOh8/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></span></i></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span>Cecil </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic;">Taylor </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic;">Trio and Quin</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span>te</span></span><span><span><i>t: </i>Love for Sale</span></span></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/CTl6yNnw6l0?si=mVX5iEsDpqbXmN3a" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CTl6yNnw6l0/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; font-family: georgia;">Sun Ra And His Arkestra:</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; font-family: georgia;"> "Ancient Aiethopia"</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/yfRa15sQmuY?si=K168vmq6NBvJIlk4" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yfRa15sQmuY/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></span></i></span></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Gerry Mulligan Quar</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; font-family: georgia;">te</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; font-family: georgia;">t: Wha</span></span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t is </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">There </span></span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to Say?</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/BZRKOWulcCU?si=gZLUixI89wnvrcDf" width="480"></iframe></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/twzm2OoIx4o?si=OFZCy9asoYiQbibO" width="480"></iframe></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/CcMIS5SfM_k?si=fHn_6GG014dXBsdH" width="480"></iframe></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/hT2btwzVHdA?si=lizGB14Xo6FojSJL" width="480"></iframe></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/Kctly_hsz0Y?si=jSBMgAbFaaJ-zF99" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Kctly_hsz0Y/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/4wPnPw6oLA4?si=esRaffplAn6EZHIl" width="480"></iframe></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/HUnKX1DxR40?si=tWjivkSA6IOCdIle" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HUnKX1DxR40/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/egmoun29mrs?list=OLAK5uy_mv3COh9dZ1Jc9fGkF8NZnkJmd1yofNyrk&si=GG9a0pSCoKt7daXb" width="480"></iframe></div><div><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Annual_Grammy_Awards">From Wikipedia:</a> Grammys for 1959 releases</b></span></i></div><div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Record_of_the_Year" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Record of the Year">Record of the Year</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Darin" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Bobby Darin">Bobby Darin</a> for "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_the_Knife" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mack the Knife">Mack the Knife</a>"</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Album_of_the_Year" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Album of the Year">Album of the Year</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a> for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Dance_with_Me!_(album)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Come Dance with Me! (album)">Come Dance with Me!</a></i></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Song_of_the_Year" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Song of the Year">Song of the Year</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Driftwood" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jimmy Driftwood">Jimmy Driftwood</a> for "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_New_Orleans" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Battle of New Orleans">The Battle of New Orleans</a>"</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_New_Artist" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best New Artist">Best New Artist</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Darin" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Bobby Darin">Bobby Darin</a></li></ul></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="Children.27s"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Children's">Children's</span></span></h3><ul style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Album_for_Children" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Album for Children">Best Recording for Children</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ustinov" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Peter Ustinov">Peter Ustinov</a> for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sergei Prokofiev">Prokofiev</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Peter and the Wolf">Peter and the Wolf</a></i> performed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ustinov" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Peter Ustinov">Peter Ustinov</a> & the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philharmonia_Orchestra" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Philharmonia Orchestra">Philharmonia Orchestra</a> conducted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_von_Karajan" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Herbert von Karajan">Herbert von Karajan</a></li></ul></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Classical">Classical</span></span></h3><ul style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Orchestral_Performance" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance">Best Classical Performance - Orchestra</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M%C3%BCnch" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Charles Münch">Charles Münch</a> (conductor) & the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Symphony_Orchestra" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Boston Symphony Orchestra">Boston Symphony Orchestra</a> for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Debussy" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Claude Debussy">Debussy</a>: Images for Orchestra</i></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Classical_Vocal_Performance" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance">Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist (with or without orchestra)</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jussi_Bj%C3%B6rling" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jussi Björling">Jussi Björling</a> for <i>Bjoerling in Opera</i></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Classical_Performance,_Operatic_or_Choral" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance, Operatic or Choral">Best Classical Performance - Opera Cast or Choral</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Leinsdorf" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Erich Leinsdorf">Erich Leinsdorf</a> (conductor), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Della_Casa" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Lisa Della Casa">Lisa Della Casa</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Elias" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Rosalind Elias">Rosalind Elias</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_London_(baritone)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="George London (baritone)">George London</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Peters" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Roberta Peters">Roberta Peters</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Tozzi" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Giorgio Tozzi">Giorgio Tozzi</a> & the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Philharmonic_Orchestra" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra">Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra</a> for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart">Mozart</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marriage_of_Figaro" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Marriage of Figaro">The Marriage of Figaro</a></i></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Instrumental_Soloist(s)_Performance_(with_orchestra)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)">Best Classical Performance - Concerto or Instrumental Soloist (with full orchestral accompaniment)</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiril_Kondrashin" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kiril Kondrashin">Kiril Kondrashin</a> (conductor), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Cliburn" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Van Cliburn">Van Cliburn</a> & the Symphony of the Air Orchestra for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Rachmaninoff" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sergei Rachmaninoff">Rachmaninoff</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No._3_(Rachmaninoff)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rachmaninoff)">Piano Concerto No. 3</a></i></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Instrumental_Soloist_Performance_(without_orchestra)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)">Best Classical Performance - Concerto or Instrumental Soloist (other than full orchestral accompaniment)</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rubinstein" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Arthur Rubinstein">Arthur Rubinstein</a> for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ludwig van Beethoven">Beethoven</a>: Sonatas <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._21_(Beethoven)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Piano Sonata No. 21 (Beethoven)">No. 21 in C (Waldstein)</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._18_(Beethoven)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Piano Sonata No. 18 (Beethoven)">No. 18 in E Flat</a></i></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Chamber_Music_Performance" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance">Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music (including chamber orchestra)</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rubinstein" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Arthur Rubinstein">Arthur Rubinstein</a> for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ludwig van Beethoven">Beethoven</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._21_(Beethoven)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Piano Sonata No. 21 (Beethoven)">Sonatas No. 21 in C (Waldstein)</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._18_(Beethoven)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Piano Sonata No. 18 (Beethoven)">No. 18 in E Flat</a></i></li></ul></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Comedy">Comedy</span></span></h3><ul style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Comedy_Album" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album">Best Comedy Performance - Spoken</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Berman" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Shelley Berman">Shelley Berman</a> for <i>Inside Shelley Berman</i></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Comedy_Album" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album">Best Comedy Performance - Musical</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_and_Jethro" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Homer and Jethro">Homer and Jethro</a> for <i>The Battle of Kookamonga</i></li></ul></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Composing_and_arranging">Composing and arranging</span></span></h3><ul style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Instrumental_Composition" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition">Best Musical Composition First Recorded and Released in 1959 (more than 5 minutes duration)</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Duke Ellington">Duke Ellington</a> for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_of_a_Murder" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Anatomy of a Murder">Anatomy of a Murder</a> Soundtrack (see link above)</i></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Score_Soundtrack_Album_for_a_Motion_Picture,_Television_or_Other_Visual_Media" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media">Best Sound Track Album - Background Score from a Motion Picture or Television</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Duke Ellington">Duke Ellington</a> (composer) for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_of_a_Murder" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Anatomy of a Murder">Anatomy of a Murder</a></i></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Arrangement" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Arrangement">Best Arrangement</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_May" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Billy May">Billy May</a> (arranger) for "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Dance_with_Me_(song)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Come Dance with Me (song)">Come Dance with Me</a>" performed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a></li></ul></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; 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margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Ethnic_or_Traditional_Folk_Recording" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording">Best Performance - Folk</a></li><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingston_Trio" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Kingston Trio">The Kingston Trio</a> for <i>The Kingston Trio at Large</i></li></ul></ul><div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><i><a href="about:invalid#zSoyz"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/NPo7bdW4Wyw?list=OLAK5uy_kWrjc6NSv3EPzhMEKiNOJ9jiaetxXgtqE&si=A7DcwULjQ0r9UhH3" width="480"></iframe></a></i></span></div><h3 style="background-color: white; 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margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Jazz_Instrumental_Solo" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo">Best Jazz Performance - Soloist</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ella Fitzgerald">Ella Fitzgerald</a> for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Swings_Lightly" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ella Swings Lightly">Ella Swings Lightly</a></i></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Jazz_Instrumental_Album,_Individual_or_Group" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group">Best Jazz Performance - Group</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_Jones" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jonah Jones">Jonah Jones</a> for<a href="https://youtu.be/7ccbXyzO4iA?si=upH5BHWiFF0GyUXK"> <i>I Dig Chicks</i></a> [about on par with Johnny Horton's winner--tm]</li></ul></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Musical_show">Musical show</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-weight: normal; 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text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album">Best Broadway Show Album</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Merman" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ethel Merman">Ethel Merman</a> & the original cast for <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy:_A_Musical_Fable" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Gypsy: A Musical Fable">Gypsy</a></i></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The original cast with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Verdon" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Gwen Verdon">Gwen Verdon</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kiley" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Richard Kiley">Richard Kiley</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Stone" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Leonard Stone">Leonard Stone</a>, Doris Rich, Cynthia Latham, Joy Nichols, Bob Dixon & Pat Ferrier for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redhead_(musical)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Redhead (musical)">Redhead</a></i></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Sound_Track_Album_or_Recording_of_Original_Cast_From_a_Motion_Picture_or_Television" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television">Best Sound Track Album, Original Cast - Motion Picture or Television</a></li><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Previn" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="André Previn">André Previn</a><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Darby" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ken Darby">Ken Darby</a><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"> & the original cast for </span><i style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porgy_and_Bess_(1959_film)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Porgy and Bess (1959 film)">Porgy and Bess</a> </i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ1eruKZYQI"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;">(<b>film sound</b></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><b>track)</b></span></span></a></li></ul></ul><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">The Gil Evans Orches</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">tra fea</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">turing Miles Davis: </span></span></b></div><div><b><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/SkVKcAm2rJg?si=Td5jXiFLAiTH9VGO" width="480"></iframe></span></b></div><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Packaging_and_notes">Packaging and notes</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2nd_Annual_Grammy_Awards&action=edit&section=10" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Packaging and notes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></h3><ul style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Album_Cover" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Album Cover">Best Album Cover</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Robert M. Jones (art director) for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Dmitri Shostakovich">Shostakovich</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Shostakovich)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich)">Symphony No. 5</a></i> conducted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Mitchell" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Howard Mitchell">Howard Mitchell</a></li></ul></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Pop">Pop</span></span></h3><ul style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Vocal_Performance,_Female" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female">Best Vocal Performance, Female</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ella Fitzgerald">Ella Fitzgerald</a> for "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/But_Not_for_Me_(song)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="But Not for Me (song)">But Not for Me</a>"</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Vocal_Performance,_Male" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male">Best Vocal Performance, Male</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a> for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Dance_with_Me!_(album)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Come Dance with Me! (album)">Come Dance with Me!</a></i></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Performance_by_a_Vocal_Group_or_Chorus" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus">Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_P._Condie" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Richard P. Condie">Richard P. Condie</a> (choir director) for "<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Battle Hymn of the Republic">The Battle Hymn of the Republic</a>" performed by the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Tabernacle_Choir" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mormon Tabernacle Choir">Mormon Tabernacle Choir</a> directed by Condie</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Performance_by_an_Orchestra_-_for_Dancing" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra - for Dancing">Best Performance by a Dance Band</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Duke Ellington">Duke Ellington</a> for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_of_a_Murder" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Anatomy of a Murder">Anatomy of a Murder</a></i></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Performance_by_an_Orchestra_or_Instrumentalist_with_Orchestra" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra">Best Performance by an Orchestra</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Previn" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="André Previn">André Previn</a> & <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rose_(musician)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="David Rose (musician)">David Rose</a> for <i>Like Young</i> performed by <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rose_(musician)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="David Rose (musician)">Dave Rose and his Orchestra</a> with André Previn</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Contemporary_Song" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song">Best Performance by a "Top 40" Artist</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_King_Cole" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Nat King Cole">Nat "King" Cole</a> for "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Flyer_(song)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Midnight Flyer (song)">Midnight Flyer</a>"</li></ul></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Production_and_engineering">Production and engineering</span></span></h3><ul style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; 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overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical">Best Engineering Contribution - Classical Recording</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Lewis W. Layton (engineer), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Russell_Bennett" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Robert Russell Bennett">Robert Russell Bennett</a> (conductor) & the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra for <i>Victory at Sea, Vol. I</i></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Engineered_Recording_-_Special_or_Novel_Effects" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording - Special or Novel Effects">Best Engineering Contribution - Novelty Recording</a><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ted Keep (engineer) for "Alvin's Harmonica" performed by <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Bagdasarian,_Sr." style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.">David Seville</a></li></ul></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="R.26B"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="R&B">R&B</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2nd_Annual_Grammy_Awards&action=edit&section=13" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: R&B">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></h3><ul style="background-color: white; 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text-decoration-line: none;" title="What a Diff'rence a Day Makes">What a Diff'rence a Day Makes</a>"</li></ul></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Spoken">Spoken</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2nd_Annual_Grammy_Awards&action=edit&section=14" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Spoken">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></h3><ul style="background-color: white; 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font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn2OCTH5z2g"><i>Music from</i> Peter Gunn <i>and More Music from</i> PG</a>;</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Lola Albrigh</span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>t and Shorty Rogers & band:</b></span></div><div><b><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/S4jFd0XYYb0?si=3Ii7Wgqy0DxNxlo0" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/S4jFd0XYYb0/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Jazz on a Summer's Day</i> (1959 film)</span></b></div></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/O1Rc3Va_2xI?si=iys3AFDkjwX_afaM" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O1Rc3Va_2xI/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; 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<iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/_EXLG6i37Aw?si=-5KVVuiwVvdG-psB" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_EXLG6i37Aw/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-71146991174203320652023-12-22T05:41:00.008-05:002023-12-22T17:29:28.952-05:00Anna Funder on WIFEDOM, about Eileen O'Shaughnessy/Blair, who subsumed her career (and life) to bolster Eric "George Orwell" Blair's.<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/eKXJ9DpPXHA?si=hmaQyU4oWAufBTHO" width="480"></iframe> <div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidf5DyNNpkAhi3EsHDINYJS9hyU0qNzGXg-4TTarbrjOHK6wKFz0eCJgYD-AxgOZlvtcmC5QnGFSW2O20CWXJOgkx19EBUSbnSBTlZXrh6lO2pxBiGfdMcNJyki0RviKTGVAIBHwo0jtAmrgWRGrozjhd5pfkfyPKDT1ejNOBH2KubLD-aC9kbP0LAToRX" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="294" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidf5DyNNpkAhi3EsHDINYJS9hyU0qNzGXg-4TTarbrjOHK6wKFz0eCJgYD-AxgOZlvtcmC5QnGFSW2O20CWXJOgkx19EBUSbnSBTlZXrh6lO2pxBiGfdMcNJyki0RviKTGVAIBHwo0jtAmrgWRGrozjhd5pfkfyPKDT1ejNOBH2KubLD-aC9kbP0LAToRX=w419-h640" width="419" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/07/wifedom-by-anna-funder-review-a-brilliant-reckoning-with-george-orwell-to-change-the-way-you-read"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Susan Wyndham i<i>n </i></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Th</i></span></b></span><span style="background-color: white;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">e Guardian</span></b></i><b style="font-family: georgia;">, reviewing </b><i style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">Wifedom</i></span></span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/dwnCBb_0yiE?si=yCEtr9eVJ932EtWg" width="480"></iframe></div></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Funder on her novel <i>All </i></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>That </i></b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>I Am</i>:</span></b></div>
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<div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Stasiland, </i>comple</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">te:</span></b></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/9_r4PPi0lIw?si=8drq4VXJe2X0vhg5" width="480"></iframe>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-7542446452351070162023-12-20T10:58:00.027-05:002024-01-02T23:59:44.898-05:00SSW: stories by Joyce Carol Oates, A. M. Homes, Richard Matheson, John Varley, Ambrose Bierce, Al Franken (among others) from THIS IS MY BEST edited by Kathy Kiernan and Retha Powers (QPB 2004) and FLIGHT OR FRIGHT edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent (Cemetery Dance 2018)<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2b3545; font-feature-settings: "ss02";">A pair of an</span><span style="color: #2b3545;">t</span></b><b><span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2b3545; font-feature-settings: "ss02";">hologies from </span></span></b><b style="color: #2b3545;">the "</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">turned up in my rese</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tling </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">the flooding/roof collapse survivors" se<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">t</span>, </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">the vas</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t</b><b style="color: #2b3545;"> majori</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">ty of my library, and as one bedroom used mos</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tly for s</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">torage becomes Alice's office. I suspec</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">the S</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tephen King and his associa</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">te, <a href="https://www.bevvincent.com/">(Mr.) Bev Vincen</a></b><b style="color: #2b3545;"><a href="https://www.bevvincent.com/">t</a> migh</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t've here produced </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">the leas</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t widely-sold volume credi</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">ted </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">to King, among </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">those no</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t produced exclusively by a small press (even as </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">there was a Ceme</b><span style="color: #2b3545;"><b>tery Dance edi</b></span><b style="color: #2b3545;">tion of </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">this an</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">thology which apparen</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tly preceded i</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">ts corpora</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">te publishers' vers</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">ions) nor suppressed by au</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">thor's inclina</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tion (</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">the "Richard Bachman" novel <i>Rage</i>)...even wi</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">th original shor</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t fic</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tion included from King and his son, "Joe Hill". While </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">the Kiernan and Powers bug-crusher, also offered by Chronicle Books in an even</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tual "illus</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tra</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">ted edi</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tion" I've no</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t seen (inasmuch as </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">the Quali</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">ty Paperback Club original includes comics and near-comics work by Gary </b><b><span>Trudeau, Mark Alan S</span></b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tama</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">ty and Sco</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t Adams [a man whose work would be less likely <span style="font-size: medium;">to be included in </span><span style="font-size: medium;">the years since 2004, and who has no</span><span style="font-size: medium;">t ye</span><span style="font-size: medium;">t s</span><span style="font-size: medium;">topped digging his own hole]</span>, i</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t, </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">too, is Illus</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tra</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">ted </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">to a</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t leas</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tha</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t ex</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">ten</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t. I wonder if </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">the Chronicle edi</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tion includes </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">the original <i>Esquire</i> magazine illus</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tra</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tions for </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">this N</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">th reprin</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t of Gay </b><b><span>Talese's "Frank Sina</span></b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tra Has a Cold" [which famously involves wri</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">ter Harlan Ellison being harassed by </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">Sina</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tra and his flunkies</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">, and no</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">truckling </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">to </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">the la</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">ter's bored dis</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tas</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">te]</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">). As in previous We Ask Wri</b><span style="color: #2b3545;"><b>t</b></span><b style="color: #2b3545;">ers For </b><span style="color: #2b3545;"><b>Their </b></span><b style="color: #2b3545;">Favori</b><span style="color: #2b3545;"><b>t</b></span><b style="color: #2b3545;">e Among </b><span style="color: #2b3545;"><b>Their Own</b></span><b style="color: #2b3545;"> Work volumes </b><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2021/07/short-story-wednesday-carol-emshwiller.html" style="color: #2b3545; font-weight: bold;">(such as <b>t</b>wo I've offered here previously)</a><span style="color: #2b3545;"><b>, <i>This Is My Bes</i></b></span><b style="color: #2b3545;"><i>t</i> is aware of i</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">ts predecessors in such compila</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tions, and specifically harkens back </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">to Whi</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t Burne</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t's 1942 original by </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tha</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">ti</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">tle (</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">though </b><b style="color: #2b3545;">they seem unaware of Burne</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t</b><b style="color: #2b3545;">t's 1970 sequel volume).</b></span><div><span style="color: #2b3545; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b3545; font-family: Inter; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia;">The Oa</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tes s</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tory was offered by her as a rela</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tively pure example of </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">the kind of </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tale she's accused, no</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t qui</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">te correc</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tly, of repea</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tedly wri</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">ting, </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">those </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tha</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t de</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tail horrible crimes agains</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t young women. As she no</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tes, despi</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">te </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">the unflinching de</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tail she brings </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">to her accoun</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">ts of such abuse, she is in nearly all </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">those s</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tories more in</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">teres</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">ted in </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">the af</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">terma</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">th in </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">the lives of </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">the survivors, whe</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">ther </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">the pro</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tagonis</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">ts or </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">their families and o</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">ther loved ones. Bu</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t in </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">the case of "</b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Girl with the Blackened Eye", Oa</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tes gran</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ts </span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tha</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t </span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">this s</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tory keeps i</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ts focus almos</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t en</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tirely on </span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the even</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ts of </span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the pro</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tagonis</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t's ordeal, which involves </span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the ordeals of o</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">thers...in</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tense </span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">thus even by Oa</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tes's s</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tandards. Bu</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t I'd s</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">till pu</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t for</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th </span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the defaul</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t, early choice of her shor</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t fic</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tion, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" as an even more in</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tense example of her con</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tinuing concern ("Girl" apparen</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tly </span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">takes as i</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ts springboard an ac</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tual abduc</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tion which a relative of Oa</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tes survived; </span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tha</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t Oa</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tes herself survived a childhood a</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">temp</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t a</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t gang-assaul</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t by similarly young boys would </span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tend </span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to help make considera</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tion of such ma</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ters of in one's fic</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tion a</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t leas</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t likely).</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The A. 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Small de</span></b><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tails are filled in wi</span></b><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th empa</span></b><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">thy, o</span></b><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">therwise...as someone who saw</span></b><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> bo</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">paren</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ts succumb </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to varying sor</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ts of demen</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tia in </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">their las</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t years, i</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t reads as a moving accoun</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Along with the Adams strip (makes its point, and its point is a bit more genuinely populist than his latter-day tRumpeting) and the Trudeau strips and the excerpt from Stamaty's heavily illustrated beginning-reader book, among the humorous bits which rely on trans-text is the fake <i>NYT</i> book review attributed to Jeanne Kirkpatrick (and the "outraged" "responses" from Al Franken, Jeanne Kirkpatrick and the paper's editors), all taken from Franken's most famous text,<i> Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and O</i></span></b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">ther O</span>bserva</span><span style="background-color: white;">tions</span></b></span></i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">. I'd say Franken's done better (and, in at least one other famous attempt at pranking, worse), but for what they are, they're fine.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Among the stories I've not previously read in <i>Flight or Fright</i>, the most famous is almost certainly Richard Matheson's "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"...I have seen the two <i>Twilight Zone</i>-branded adaptations decades back, and the story is better, but at first (and a bit repetitiously) it seems as if it might not be, while Matheson sketches in the details of his protagonist's lack of joy in his life; the ending was changed for both adaptations, making them slightly less realistic (it's quite possible to read the short story as non-fantasy as it's usually understood) and thus more rewarding to a less-experienced audience. Nonetheless, not nearly Matheson's best work, I'd suggest, and perhaps unsurprising it first appeared in <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?2231">an anthology edited by Matheson's agent</a> rather than in any of the magazines he might've contributed to at the time.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">While I did read John Varley's "Air Raid" not too long after it was published (in the first issue of what's now called <i>Asimov's Science Fiction</i>, in 1977), in 1978 when I was trying to read all the Varley fiction I could find. I liked it but didn't love it, which has put me at odds with a number of fellow admirers of Varley's work...I preferred Varley's other story in that first <i>Asimov's</i> issue, for example. It was expanded to novel length after a grueling process of adapting it for filming over more than a decade, the film and the novel both titled <i>Millennium</i>, and neither did as much for Varley as the amount of time and effort they wasted. "Air Raid" has excellent detail and scene-setting, and quite aside from being more consistently grim than the majority of Varley's early work (not too sure that put me off, as I was certainly reading a fair amount of Pohl, Kornbluth, Malzberg, Kafka, et al. at the time, and still very much a reader of horror fiction), it also deals in a future for humanity that is capable of time and long-distance space travel but cannot handle genetic drift in various forms at all...which struck me as unlikely at the time, though Varley manages deftly enough to avoid dealing with that, and much of the story is ingenious. So, definitely read "Air Raid" before any of his early novels, but perhaps after the other stories in his first three collections, at least. (Revisiting "The Persistence of Vision" as an adult left me with a larger sense of discomfort than I felt when reading it as a 13yo, as it was first published, but even that one might remain a better story in every way.)</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ambrose Bierce's "The Flying-Machine" (first collected in his <i>Fantastic Fables</i>, 1899) remains as very good and pointed a joke-anecdote today as it was in 1891.</span></b></div><div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Inter; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2b3545; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><br /></span></span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Inter; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; 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font-size: medium;">ter "Freedom Cry" *</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Julia Alvarez * novel excerp</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t, Knopf 2002</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">21 * "Confessions of a Lonely Atheist" * Natalie Angier * es </span></b><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">The </span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">New York </span></b></i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">T</span><b style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">i</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>mes Magazine</i> 14 January 2001</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">34 * From <i>Timbuktu</i> * Paul Auster * novel excerp</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t, Henry Hol</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t 1999</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">42 * "Filthy with </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">T</span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">hings" * T. Coraghessan Boyle * </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/j00/j00491.htm#A2"><i>The New Yorker</i></a><span style="background-color: white;"> 15 </span><span style="background-color: white;">February 1993</span></span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>Sweet Summer</i> / Bebe Moore Campbell</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"What to Do" / Hayden Carruth</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>Caramelo</i> / Sandra Cisneros</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter" / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"A Short Story" / Emma Donoghue</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Her Island" / Rita Dove</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From "Tiger-Frame Glasses" / Carolyn Ferrell</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Dumped!" / Helen Fisher</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot</i> / Al Franken</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Surprise" / Martin Gardner</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"A Hidden Killer in Cajun Country" / Laurie Garret</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>Migrations of the Hear</i>t / Marita Golden</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Former First Lady and the Football Hero, A. M. Home</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">s</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"> (</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">ss) </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/k11/k11767.htm#A26" style="background-color: white;"><i>Zoetrope: All-Story</i> Fall 2002</a></span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>Fanatics and Fools</i> / Arianna Huffington</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">From <i>A </i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>T</i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>aste for Death</i> / P.D. James</span></b></span></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Who's Irish?" / Gish Jen</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>Cherry</i> / Mary Karr</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>The Poisonwood Bible</i> / Barbara Kingsolver</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>China Men</i> / Maxine Hong Kingston</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"A Gaggle of Saints" / Neil LaBute</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>Under My Skin</i> / Doris Lessing</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>The Fortress of Solitude</i> / Jonathan Lethem</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"My Father with Cigarette </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">T</span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">welve Years Before the Nazis Could Break His Heart" / Philip Levine</span></b></span></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"The Mappist" / Barry Lopez</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From "The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios" / Yann Martel</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>Property</i> / Valerie Martin</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>Salesman in Beijin</i>g / Arthur Miller</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"From Mao to America: a Writer's Remarkable Journey" / Anchee Min</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">From <i>Farewell the </i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>T</i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>rumpets</i> / Jan Morris</span></b></span></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>The Wind Up Bird Chronicle</i> / Haruki Murakami</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"The Wedding at the Courthouse" / Kathleen Norris</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>Intimate Apparel</i> / Lynn Nottage</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Girl with the Blackened Eye * Joyce Carol Oa</span><span style="background-color: white;">te</span><span style="background-color: white;">s</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">(ss) </span><i style="background-color: white;">Witness</i><span style="background-color: white;"> v14 #2, 2000</span></span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"Impossible to </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">T</span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ell" / Robert Pinsky</span></b></span></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>The Botany of Desire</i> / Michael Pollan</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"America: </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">T</span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">he Multi-National Society" / Ishmael Reed</span></b></span></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"The Queen of Mold" / Ruth Reichl</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>Anthropology</i>: "normal," "pieces," "Madrid," "trick," "dust," "beauty," and "lesbian" / Dan Rhodes</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates</i> / Tom Robbins</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Sand" / Richard Rodriguez</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Getting Away from It All" / Witold Rybczynski</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Repeat after Me" / David Sedaris</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Flakes of Fire, Handfuls of Light" / Huston Smith</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>Who Needs Donuts?</i> / Mark Alan Stamaty</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" / Gay Talese</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Doonesbury</i>: "</span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">T</span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">he Golden Hour" / Garry Trudeau</span></b></span></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>The Laws of Our Fathers </i>/ Scott Turow</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From <i>Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant</i> / Anne Tyler</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Your Lover Just Called" / John Updike</span></b></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-0" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: "ss02";"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Son in the Afternoon" / John A. Williams</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmFRDSATnPc2W-SKNKAgh37JYenNDR9b_Fx91-rxpv6i6rcNMYtNJqSrqZDklIfOl40Qd1OtOjdecqlxj5yu0ToadnQfe5yDIGUD2-OQ133-awKOTxdrAzO3FspEu1_9EOnIMQyZRdZK3EWk-s5MrZUiNZz21xUKynIUtzvssXBLSXhf5_hS3rYSDK2DkM" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="975" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmFRDSATnPc2W-SKNKAgh37JYenNDR9b_Fx91-rxpv6i6rcNMYtNJqSrqZDklIfOl40Qd1OtOjdecqlxj5yu0ToadnQfe5yDIGUD2-OQ133-awKOTxdrAzO3FspEu1_9EOnIMQyZRdZK3EWk-s5MrZUiNZz21xUKynIUtzvssXBLSXhf5_hS3rYSDK2DkM=w416-h640" width="416" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Editors: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?70">Stephen King</a>, <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?28663">Bev Vincent</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Date: 2018-09-04</span></b></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>I have a copy of </b> <b><a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?42">Hodder & Stoughton</a>'s paperback edi<b>t</b>ion</b></span></li></ul></div><div><ul style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">11 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2432854">Introduction (<i>Flight or Fright</i>)</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?56666">Introductions and afterwords for Stephen King's</a> books] • essay by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?70">Stephen King</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">17 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1111018">Cargo</a> • (2008) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?127466">E. Michael Lewis</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">37 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?84011">The Horror of the Heights</a> • (1913) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1131">Arthur Conan Doyle</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">57 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?64462">Nightmare at 20,000 Feet</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?41509">Nightmare at 20,000 Feet</a> • 1] • (1962) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?531">Richard Matheson</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">79 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2432888">The Flying Machine</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?47400"><i>Fantastic Fables</i></a>] • (1891) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1960">Ambrose Bierce</a> (variant of <a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1838820" style="font-style: italic;">The Flying-Machine</a>)</span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">81 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?97070">Lucifer!</a> • (1969) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?113">E. C. Tubb</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">95 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2432889">The Fifth Category</a> • (2014) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?140086">Tom Bissell</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">129 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?40751">Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds</a> • (1988) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?170">Dan Simmons</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">139 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2249203">Diablitos</a> • (2017) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?115128">Cody Goodfellow</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">157 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?41677">Air Raid</a> • (1977) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?59">John Varley</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">175 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2432851">You Are Released</a> • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?40751">Joe Hill</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">207 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1105173">Warbirds</a> • (2007) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1425">David J. Schow</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">229 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?62759">The Flying Machine</a> • (1953) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?194">Ray Bradbury</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">237 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1110105">Zombies on a Plane</a> • (2010) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?28663">Bev Vincent</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">247 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1160964">They Shall Not Grow Old</a> • (1944) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?508">Roald Dahl</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">269 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2432890">Murder in the Air</a> • (2000) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1519">Peter Tremayne</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">293 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2432852">The Turbulence Expert</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?70">Stephen King</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">311 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2432853">Falling</a> • (1967) • poem by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?8811">James Dickey</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">319 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2432855">Afterword: An Important Message from the Flight Deck</a> • essay by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?28663">Bev Vincent</a></span></b></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/books/best-horror-novels.html"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">Danielle <span style="background-color: white;">T</span>rusoni's <i>New York </i></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">T</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">imes </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">review of<i> Fli</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;"><b>gh</b></span><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><u>t </u></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">or Frigh</span><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><u>t.</u></span></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2023/12/short-story-wednesday-possibility-of.html">For more of <span style="color: #2b3545;">today's Shor</span><span style="color: #2b3545;">t S</span><span style="color: #2b3545;">tory Wednesday en</span><span style="color: #2b3545;">tries, please see Pa</span><span style="color: #2b3545;">t</span><span style="color: #2b3545;">ti Abbo</span><span style="color: #2b3545;">t</span><span style="color: #2b3545;">t's blog.</span></a></span></b></div><div><b></b></div></div>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-71014260005367004312023-12-13T08:47:00.010-05:002023-12-14T13:32:53.203-05:00SSW: Fritz Leiber's novella YOU'RE ALL ALONE; WHAT DID MISS DARRINGTON SEE? edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson and THE FANTASTIC PULPS edited by Peter Haining; NEGLECTED VISIONS edited by Barry N. Malzberg, Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (Doubleday 1979): Short Story Wednesday<p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 22px;">YOU'RE ALL ALONE by Fritz Leiber (also published as THE SINFUL ONES) (and a consideration of other 1950 magazine fantastic-fiction)</span></p><div class="date-posts" style="background-color: white;"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-header" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10.8px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3295260986864261949" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 550px;"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hTCdJ8ijnOU/TsYep8hT3UI/AAAAAAAABz0/qgEUcw1PjFs/s1600/you%2527re%2Ball%2Balone.jpg" style="color: #a32823; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676258086316399938" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hTCdJ8ijnOU/TsYep8hT3UI/AAAAAAAABz0/qgEUcw1PjFs/s400/you%2527re%2Ball%2Balone.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="238" /></a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">You're All Alone</span></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"> is the second of Fritz Leiber's three (essentially) no-bones-about-it horror novels (all of them also noirish novels of social observation with considerable philosophical underpinning and literary innovation running throughout, as these are Fritz Leiber novels with him working at the top of his form, and this one perhaps necessarily the most noirish of the trio); it, in its apparently original form (though it might've been trimmed down to long-novella wordcount), was first published in <span style="font-style: italic;">Fantastic Adventures</span> magazine for July 1950.<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6JdtgzFXtEs/TsYkvQdMPYI/AAAAAAAAB1U/X6mJZkadTNg/s1600/you%2527re%2Ball%2Balone%2BC%2526G.gif" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676264774636944770" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6JdtgzFXtEs/TsYkvQdMPYI/AAAAAAAAB1U/X6mJZkadTNg/s400/you%2527re%2Ball%2Balone%2BC%2526G.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="243" /></a></b><br /><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><br /><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">(Very Long Digression: I took a quick spin through the contents of the fantasy/sf/horror-fiction magazines of 1950, after I decided to write about the Leiber, one of a number of fairly to very important novels to be published in the magazines in that year...the year after Street and Smith folded or sold all their fiction magazines except <span style="font-style: italic;">Astounding Science Fiction</span> [and I suspect they kept that one mostly because they wanted to keep its editor around to edit the aviation and technology magazine they kept launching, folding and relaunching in those years to no sustained success], so such major pulp titles as <span style="font-style: italic;">Detective Story</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Western Story</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Love Story</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Doc Savage</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Shadow</span> bit the dust [or at least the pulp-paper confetti, which Kurt Vonnegut compared to dandruff]. Perhaps that contraction of the market, or other factors, not least that nearly all the fantastic-fiction magazines were being edited by reasonably talented to brilliant editors in 1950, meant that every damned magazine extant in the field in that year had some serious bragging rights, from the ridiculously successful <span style="font-style: italic;">Galaxy</span> [in the black financially after three issues, in fact already apparently with the largest circulation in the field, and fiction including Leiber's "Coming Attraction" and Clifford Simak's novel <span style="font-style: italic;">Time and Again</span>, under the magazine's title "Time Quarry," didn't hurt] to the barely-eking-out little magazine <span style="font-style: italic;">Fantasy Book</span>, which offered, in the first of two issues in 1950, a lead story by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl, stories by (promising] Alfred Coppel and [old hand and star of the 1930s] Stanton Coblentz and [reliable pulpster] Basil Wells and, mixed in the middle there, "Scanners Live in Vain" by Cordwainer Smith. John D. MacDonald had stories all over <span style="font-style: italic;">Thrilling Wonder Stories </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">Startling Stories</span>, including the novel <span style="font-style: italic;">Wine of the Dreamers</span>, along with Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Margaret St. Clair and other major and emerging players...Leigh Brackett and Poul Anderson and Bradbury were featured in <span style="font-style: italic;">Planet Stories</span> [of course] and Bradbury and Robert Bloch and St. Clair and Manly Wade Wellman were prominent in <span style="font-style: italic;">Weird Tales</span> [also of course] and those folks were also in the new <span style="font-style: italic;">Avon Fantasy Reader</span> and/or the newer <span style="font-style: italic;">The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</span>, in the latter along with some more crime-fiction amphibians such as Elizabeth Sanxay Holding, Miriam Allen de Ford, and Robert Arthur, and this new kid Richard Matheson's first story; an early Matheson story also appeared in Damon Knight's shortlived but impressive 1950 launch <span style="font-style: italic;">Worlds Beyond</span>, despite the stereotype of Knight as a destroyer of Matheson love. L. Ron Hubbard was pretty visible in several magazines, though only <span style="font-style: italic;">Astounding</span> was publishing Dianetics articles by him, while <span style="font-style: italic;">Amazing</span>, now edited by Howard Browne with help from Lila Shaffer and William Hamling, had dumped the comparably enervating "Shaver Mystery" quasi-mystical paranoia fiction--and they moved with former <span style="font-style: italic;">Amazing</span> editor Ray Palmer to his new magazine <span style="font-style: italic;">Other Worlds</span>...but <span style="font-style: italic;">OW</span> also published Gustav Meyrink, Clarke, Bradbury, and others, including the classic Eric Frank Russell (as Richard Moore reminded me) story "Dear Devil". While <span style="font-style: italic;">Amazing</span> remained filled mostly with minor stories, albeit some by Bloch, William McGivern, Simak, and Leiber were better, its companion <span style="font-style: italic;">Fantastic Adventures</span> also featured Theodore Sturgeon's novel <span style="font-style: italic;">The Dreaming Jewels</span> and frequently other more impressive work by Bloch, Simak, McGivern, Philip "William Tenn" Klass and others.</b><br /><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">Even the slightest magazines were often readable, and frequently surprising. It's small wonder that the number of titles would briefly but eventually double over the next few years, before the great winnowing by decade's end. And end of digression.)</b><br /><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DYHpTNDEPOs/TsYf8R0PSOI/AAAAAAAAB0Y/SXXRYOZt1rk/s1600/fantastic_adventures_195007.jpg" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676259500782209250" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DYHpTNDEPOs/TsYf8R0PSOI/AAAAAAAAB0Y/SXXRYOZt1rk/s400/fantastic_adventures_195007.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 5px; position: relative; width: 281px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">You're All Alone</span> was originally meant to follow Leiber's first novel <span style="font-style: italic;">Conjure Wife</span>, and such major short fiction as "Smoke Ghost" and his first published sword & sorcery fiction, into the pages of <span style="font-style: italic;">Unknown Fantasy Fiction</span> magazine, but when that magazine folded in 1943, Leiber set the unfinished manuscript aside. It is a delightfully paranoid story, in which the protagonist finds himself dragged out of the clockwork existence he and the vast majority of people are a part of, through an encounter with a terrified and furtive young woman who is trying her best to avoid the murderous gang of other escapees (not Leiber's term) from the automaton existence who are pursuing her. Certainly <span style="font-style: italic;">The Matrix</span> is only the most obvious later elaboration of a similar trope, only there is no conspiracy of evil computers behind the illusory existence here, nor even the kind of Lovecraftian Old Ones the younger Leiber might've been tempted to employ, but instead simply the cold, empty way of the universe...where those who have broken free from going through the motions of life are a very small group, scattered thinly, indeed, and some are very jealous of that freedom (and their ability to exploit those still trapped in the clockwork). The rest of the novel involves the man and the woman attempting to come to grips with their status in relation to the grand machine of the universe, and to escape the murderous ones. Some of the setpieces in the story, such as the protagonist's attempt to talk to his wife, who quickly reveals herself to be responding in a conversation he might've been having with her if he hadn't been "pulled out" rather than in the increasingly desperate conversation he is actually having with her, are resonant (the alienation metaphor is deftly employed) and memorable. And, of course, noir fans, not only are the villains out to get our heroes, but (of course) the very nature of the world is, as well.</b><br /><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/---HJznEMOjo/TsYgOStkBOI/AAAAAAAAB0k/f6S1ooroSRE/s1600/sinful2.jpg" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676259810260288738" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/---HJznEMOjo/TsYgOStkBOI/AAAAAAAAB0k/f6S1ooroSRE/s400/sinful2.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 5px; position: relative; width: 295px;" /></a></b><br /><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">This short novel had to wait several more years before being accepted for publication in book form, and then the offer came from erotica-oriented Beacon Books (unrelated to the later small press Beacon), who had their editor, Ejler Jakobsson--in the early '70s editor of the <i>Galaxy</i> group of magazines, and briefly editor of the earliest '50s brief revival of <i>Super-Science Stories</i>, coincidentally both times following Frederik Pohl's editorship of the magazines-- insert clumsy softcore sex passages and publish it in a "double-novel" as <span style="font-style: italic;">The Sinful Ones</span> with a very forgotten item called <span style="font-style: italic;">Bulls, Blood and Passion</span>. Leiber saw the novella form finally in print from Ace Books in 1972 (in a volume that also included two novelets) and did what he could to rewrite the sexual passages to his taste and republish the longer-form text as <span style="font-style: italic;">The Sinful Ones</span> with Pocket Books in 1980.<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HFKbVRcBTG4/TsYgpD-JXmI/AAAAAAAAB0w/bCGswCKVjQQ/s1600/sinful%2Bones%2Bpocket.jpg" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676260270159781474" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HFKbVRcBTG4/TsYgpD-JXmI/AAAAAAAAB0w/bCGswCKVjQQ/s400/sinful%2Bones%2Bpocket.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 5px; 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font-weight: bold;">Please note the reuse of a certain Victoria Poyser cover painting above at left (Baen Books, 1986) and far above at right (Carroll & Graf, 1990).</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-weight: bold;"> For more of today's </span><b><span>shor</span><span>t fiction</span><span>,</span></b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-weight: bold;"> please see organizer </span><a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2023/12/short-story-wednesday.html" style="color: #a32823; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">Patti Abbott's blog</a></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" trbidi="on"><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><b style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aQuLUMWYUC4/XX64k6j3ldI/AAAAAAAAV50/yQ8bi4mzor0xCr1q1asFePcdg-ypkqAVACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/fantastic_196611.jpg" style="clear: left; 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font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><br /></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">THE FANTASTIC PULPS edited by Peter Haining; WHAT DID MISS DARRINGTON SEE? FEMINIST SUPERNATURAL FICTION edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson</h3><div class="post-header" style="font-size: 10.8px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8911117751544654316" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 550px;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 13.2px;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aj-7sB3h_qU/TfISeF-6LNI/AAAAAAAABEg/5M9kkayaZzU/s1600/darrington.JPG" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616571993495842002" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aj-7sB3h_qU/TfISeF-6LNI/AAAAAAAABEg/5M9kkayaZzU/w268-h400/darrington.JPG" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 276px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 5px; position: relative; width: 185px;" width="268" /></a><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wwElr-XVA2U/TfISTEtw5uI/AAAAAAAABEY/rtMwMIcAXy8/s1600/fantastic%2Bpulps%2Bqp.jpg" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616571804176934626" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wwElr-XVA2U/TfISTEtw5uI/AAAAAAAABEY/rtMwMIcAXy8/s640/fantastic%2Bpulps%2Bqp.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 377px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 5px; position: relative; width: 247px;" width="417" /></a><br /><br /><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 13.2px;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 13.2px;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 13.2px;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 13.2px;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 13.2px;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 13.2px;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 13.2px;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 13.2px;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 13.2px;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 13.2px;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 13.2px;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 13.2px;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 13.2px;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u0iTcytYbLY/TfIegiEtsPI/AAAAAAAABEo/trS1Q3Jo49U/s1600/haining%2Bclassic%2Bera.jpg" style="clear: left; color: #a32823; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616585229535654130" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u0iTcytYbLY/TfIegiEtsPI/AAAAAAAABEo/trS1Q3Jo49U/s400/haining%2Bclassic%2Bera.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 400px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 5px; position: relative; width: 300px;" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><b>Courtesy <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?36435" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">ISFD</a>B:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />The Fantastic Pulps</span><br />Editor: Peter Haining (Gollancz, 1975; St. Martin's Press, 1976; Vintage, 1976--the paperback I have, pictured here)<br /><br />Contents<br />11 • Introduction (The Fantastic Pulps) • (1975) • essay by Peter Haining<br />19 • Manacled • (1900) • shortstory by Stephen Crane<br />25 • A Thousand Deaths • (1899) • shortstory by Jack London<br />37 • Author's Adventure • (1897) • shortstory by Upton Sinclair<br />42 • The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw • (1937) • novelette by Edgar Rice Burroughs<br />62 • John Ovington Returns • (1918) • shortstory by Max Brand<br />79 • The People of the Pit • (1918) • shortstory by A. Merritt<br />97 • The Man with the Glass Heart • (1911) • shortstory by George Allan England (aka He of the Glass Heart)<br />110 • The Wolf Woman • [Trumpets from Oblivion] • (1939) • shortstory by H. Bedford-Jones<br />129 • A Cry from Beyond • (1931) • novelette by Victor Rousseau<br />149 • Madman's Murder Melody • (1940) • shortstory by Ray Cummings<br />163 • The Land That Time Forgot • (1975) • interior artwork by Frank Paul<br />164 • The Moon Pool • (1975) • interior artwork by Graves Gladney<br />165 • The Indestructible Man • (1975) • interior artwork by John Newton Howett<br />166 • Full Moon • (1975) • interior artwork by Virgil Finlay<br />167 • The Rat Racket • (1931) • interior artwork by Leo Morey<br />168 • Piracy Preferred • (1975) • interior artwork by H. W. Wesso<br />169 • Vampire Kith and Kin • (1975) • interior artwork by Vincent Napoli<br />170 • The Devotee of Evil • (1941) • interior artwork by Hannes Bok<br />171 • Herbert West: Reanimator • (1975) • interior artwork by Damon Knight<br />172 • The Black Ferris • (1975) • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye<br />175 • The Ghost Patrol • (1917) • shortstory by Sinclair Lewis<br />189 • The Sardonic Star of Tom Doody • (1923) • shortstory by Dashiell Hammett [as by Peter Collinson]<br />196 • The Second Challenge • (1929) • shortstory by MacKinlay Kantor<br />209 • Baron Münchhausen's Scientific Adventures • (1916) • shortstory by Hugo Gernsback<br />221 • A Twentieth Century Homunculus • (1930) • shortstory by David H. Keller, M.D. [as by David H. Keller]<br />244 • The Man Who Saw the Future • (1930) • shortstory by Edmond Hamilton<br />260 • Suicide Chapel • [Jules de Grandin] • (1938) • novelette by Seabury Quinn<br />292 • The Diary of Alonzo Typer • (1938) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and William Lumley<br />315 • The Tree of Life • [Northwest Smith] • (1936) • novelette by C. L. Moore<br />343 • Iron Mask • (1944) • novelette by Robert Bloch<br />386 • The Sea Shell • (1944) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury<br />397 • The Bloody Pulps • (1962) • essay by Charles Beaumont<br />415 • Poor Amazing Gets It! • (1932) • letter (to <span style="font-style: italic;">Amazing Stories</span>) by Forrest J. Ackerman<br />417 • The Saint's Here Again • (1939) • letter (to <span style="font-style: italic;">Thrilling Wonder Stories</span>) by Leslie Charteris<br />419 • Bibliography (The Fantastic Pulps) • (1976) • essay by uncredited (Peter Haining)<br /><br />again, from <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?54246" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">ISFDb:</a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">What Did Miss Darrington See?: An Anthology of Feminist Supernatural Fiction</span><br />edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Feminist Press, 1989)<br /><br />Contents<br />ix • Preface (What Did Miss Darrington See?) • (1989) • essay by Jessica Amanda Salmonson<br />xv • Introduction (What Did Miss Darrington See?) • (1989) • essay by Rosemary Jackson<br />xxxvii • Proem: The Immortal • (1908) • poem by Ellen Glasgow<br />1 • The Long Chamber • (1914) • shortstory by Olivia Howard Dunbar<br />15 • A Ghost Story • (1858) • shortstory by Ada Trevanion<br />25 • Luella Miller • (1902) • shortstory by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman<br />38 • What Did Miss Darrington See? • (1870) • shortstory by Emma B. Cobb<br />58 • La Femme Noir • (1850) • shortstory by Anna Maria Hall<br />68 • A Friend in Need • (1981) • shortstory by Lisa Tuttle<br />79 • Attachment • (1974) • shortstory by Phyllis Eisenstein<br />90 • Dreaming the Sky Down • (1987) • shortstory by Barbara Burford<br />101 • The Sixth Canvasser • (1916) • shortstory by Inez Haynes Irwin<br />114 • An Unborn Visitant • (1932) • shortstory by Vita Sackville-West<br />124 • Tamar • (1932) • shortstory by Lady Eleanor Smith<br />135 • There and Here • (1897) • shortstory by Alice Brown<br />148 • The Substitute • (1914) • shortstory by Georgia Wood Pangborn<br />158 • The Teacher • (1976) • shortstory by Luisa Valenzuela<br />164 • The Ghost • (1978) • shortstory by Anne Sexton<br />170 • Three Dreams in a Desert • (1890) • shortstory by Olive Schreiner<br />177 • The Fall • (1967) • shortstory by Armonia Somers<br />188 • Pandora Pandaemonia • (1989) • shortfiction by Jules Faye<br />192 • The Doll • (1896) • shortstory by Vernon Lee<br />201 • The Debutante • (1939) • shortfiction by Leonora Carrington<br />205 • The Readjustment • (1908) • shortstory by Mary Austin (1868)<br />212 • Clay-Shuttered Doors • (1926) • shortstory by Helen R. Hull<br />229 • Since I Died • (1873) • shortstory by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps<br />236 • The Little Dirty Girl • (1982) • shortstory by Joanna Russ<br />255 • Envoi: For Emily D. • (1989) • poem by uncredited (J. A. Salmonson)<br />256 • Recommended Reading (What Did Miss Darrington See?) • (1989) • essay by uncredited (J. A. Salmonson)<br /><br />Two important survey anthologies in my reading, encountered about a decade apart; I would've caught up with the Haining, with its then mildly steep (to me on an allowance) price of $3 (or was it up to $5?) in its "quality paperback" digest-sized form, in 1978, and I picked up the Salmonson at time of publication. Both books good fun to read, the Salmonson averaging better in quality (Haining's anthologies through the decades were often more fun even when not greater than the sum of their parts, and the selection is certainly reasonably representative), but both useful surveys that introduced me to writers I was unlikely to stumble across quickly otherwise (such as Kantor or Quinn, in the Haining, though I had read about Quinn in <a href="http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2009/11/fridays-forgotten-books-living-in-fear.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Les Daniels's history of horror in literature and other arts, <span style="font-style: italic;">Living in Fear</span></a>).<br /><br />Perhaps as important as the fiction, in both cases, were the best essays in either book; Rosemary Jackson's introduction to the Salmonson was, by design or happy circumstance, a persuasive counter-argument to Stephen King's rather daft and widely, thoughtlessly assented-to notion, put forth in <span style="font-style: italic;">Danse Macabre</span>, that horror fiction is inherently a politically reactionary form; she deftly demonstrates horror's history and natural utility as radical and progressive critique, not least in pointing out the horrors in society which need to be overcome. In the Haining, he reprints Charles Beaumont's fine essay "The Bloody Pulps" (from an early '60s <span style="font-style: italic;">Playboy</span>), which while not accurate in every detail is a fine, nostalgic gloss on the joys of the pulps of CB's youth...amusing to hear his voice from 1962 sneer just a bit about the slight thing a 1962 <span style="font-style: italic;">Argosy</span> or <span style="font-style: italic;">Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction</span> were compared to what one got in, say, 1946...<span style="font-style: italic;">Argosy</span> by the early '60s had already become a sort of down-market, if slick, <span style="font-style: italic;">Esquire</span>, rather than the leading general-interest/eclectic fiction pulp it had been in the 1940s (and its otherwise unrelated British namesake already a relatively sedate and even more literarily impressive digest), but this contrast between the slim, adventurous digest-sized <span style="font-style: italic;">Amazing</span>, edited by Cele Goldsmith and featuring some of the best fiction in the field, versus the Ray Palmer <span style="font-style: italic;">Amazing Stories</span> of the '40s with some good and a lot of indifferent to bad adventure sf, and a tendency by the end of the '40s to wallow in fringe crackpottery (even as John W. Campbell, Jr. over at <span style="font-style: italic;">Astounding</span> was becoming increasingly willing to do, as well, in his more intellectualized way), is not a terribly strong argument. Except in nostalgic terms, perhaps. (And <span style="font-style: italic;">Amazing</span>'s then-recent mockery of <span style="font-style: italic;">Playboy</span>, in a joke story by Isaac Asimov, perhaps had not gone unnoticed in the Hefner Mansion.)<br /><br />The fiction in both volumes ranges from impressive to readable, with, as noted, the advantage going to the Salmonson, even given the historical importance of nearly everyone in both books (though, obviously, some of the Salmonson picks have become even more obscure over the decades than some of the once-famous and still indirectly influential fictioneers in the Haining); the works by still-major folks in the Haining, ranging from London and Lewis through C. L. Moore and Hammett to Bloch and Bradbury, are represented by stories more rare than representative of what they were capable of, which is less true even of the modern writers in the Salmonson, even as she avoids some obvious choices (and includes such nice surprises as Anne Sexton's prose vignette). A nice bonus in the Haining is a portfolio of pulp illustration, including Damon Knight's work, from before he turned his primary attention to writing, for the <span style="font-style: italic;">Weird Tales</span> publication of the Lovecraft "Herbert West, Reanimator" stories.<br /><br />The Haining was never too fortunate in cover imagery, but the hardcover has a slightly better cover, a pulp illustration reprint rather than a pastiche (and Haining's later anthology, with actual covers from his collection excerpted on the cover, not surprisingly looks better yet--see above).</b><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4fjc0D4KZgk/TfIepGLQ5aI/AAAAAAAABEw/z4sWKYBNqU0/s1600/fantastic%2Bpulps%2Bhc.jpg" style="color: #a32823; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616585376665757090" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4fjc0D4KZgk/TfIepGLQ5aI/AAAAAAAABEw/z4sWKYBNqU0/w414-h640/fantastic%2Bpulps%2Bhc.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 5px; position: relative; width: 259px;" width="414" /></a><br /><span style="color: #a32823; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px;"></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #a32823;"><br /></span></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">NEGLECTED VISIONS edited by Barry N. Malzberg, Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (Doubleday 1979)</h3><div class="post-header" style="font-size: 10.8px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-314059826611405936" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 550px;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9lOezx3tQj8/TryoYZpFwYI/AAAAAAAABxA/l1MWoSLN750/s1600/neglected%2Bvisions.jpg" style="color: #a32823; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673594767733539202" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9lOezx3tQj8/TryoYZpFwYI/AAAAAAAABxA/l1MWoSLN750/s400/neglected%2Bvisions.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 5px; position: relative; width: 247px;" /></a><br /><br /><b><span style="font-style: italic;">Neglected Visions</span> is an interesting anthology in several ways, not least in being a fine collection of short fiction, much of it previously uncollected and all of it out of print at time of publication in 1979; also, it was the first collaborative anthology between prolific anthologists (and frequent collaborators) Barry Malzberg and Martin Harry Greenberg (Barry, whom I've quizzed briefly about this book, remembers Joseph Olander's role as being relatively slight, and that Olander was approaching his retirement from work with Greenberg), as well as being a relatively early book in both their compilation careers. Also unusually, Malzberg and Greenberg/Olander take credit for discrete selections here, with Barry putting in the Mark Clifton, Kris Neville, Peter Phillips, Norman Kagan and F.L. Wallace stories, and his collaborators including the Christopher Anvil, Randall Garrett, Robert Abernathy and Wyman Guin items. Along with getting one more story in, Malzberg also provides a general introduction, and the selectors switch off introducing the stories themselves. Malzberg and Greenberg would do something altogether similar again in <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2010/05/ffbforgotten-stories-uncollected-crimes.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Uncollected Stars</a></span><a href="http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2010/05/ffbforgotten-stories-uncollected-crimes.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;"> (Avon, 1986), which I briefly reviewed sometime back,</a> with collaborators Piers Anthony and Charles G. Waugh (in that same review I cited Ramsey Campbell's <span style="font-style: italic;">Fine Frights</span>, which shares the Phillips story with this one...the only story among them I'd read before picking up <span style="font-style: italic;">Neglected Visions</span>).<br /><br />None of these stories are particularly well-known even among most fantasy and sf "insiders" with the possible exception of Randall Garrett's remarkably thoroughly worked-out "The Hunting Lodge" (a breathless adventure of an assassin's attempt to kill one of the nearly-immortal "senators" who have divvied up North America into personal fiefdoms), a work cited by James Blish as well as the editors here as a jewel, sadly rare in the torrent of facile work he produced to order to fill the pages of <span style="font-style: italic;">Astounding Science Fiction</span> in the latter 1950s and early 1960s, when editor John W. Campbell, Jr. seemed to have grown weary of his task, and was often editing on autopilot (Garrett, by himself and in collaboration particularly with Robert Silverberg or Lawrence Janifer and often under pseudonyms, apparently appeared more times in the magazine than any other contributor of fiction). Garrett would actually try again with his frequently impressive Lord D'Arcy stories in the early '60s and onward (among scattered other examples of solid or better work), but old hacking habits died hard. <span style="font-style: italic;">This cover inspired a lot of machismic discomfort in the sf-fan community at the time, inspiring jokes about, ho ho, the model being John Campbell's "wife"...</span><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QiA6zPZRqi4/Trz3awrEXuI/AAAAAAAABxw/1P2r41X32Fs/s1600/Astounding%2BJuly%2B1954%2Bcover.jpg" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673681669694185186" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QiA6zPZRqi4/Trz3awrEXuI/AAAAAAAABxw/1P2r41X32Fs/s320/Astounding%2BJuly%2B1954%2Bcover.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 5px; position: relative; width: 230px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Big Digression:</span> It's little wonder that along with the winnowing of the flood of digest-sized sf and fantasy magazines that popped up in the early 1950s to augment the pulp titles, with opportunist publishers aware of the success of the new <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/mags/galaxy.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Galaxy</a></span> (particularly), <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/mags/fantastic.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Fantastic</a></span> and <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/mags/fsf.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</a></span>, and the <a href="http://www.philsp.com/data/images/s/startling_stories_195206.jpg" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">reinvigorated</a>, <a href="http://www.philsp.com/data/images/s/startling_stories_195208.jpg" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">more mature</a> and <a href="http://www.philsp.com/data/images/s/startling_stories_1955spr.jpg" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">briefly</a> <a href="http://www.philsp.com/data/images/s/startling_stories_1954spr.jpg" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">more successful than ever </a><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/data/data364.html#STARTLINGSTORIES" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Startling Stories</a></span> and its <a href="http://www.philsp.com/data/images/w/wonder_stories_1963.jpg" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">stablemates</a>, that <a href="http://efanzines.com/EK/eI29/" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Earl Kemp's <span style="font-style: italic;">Who Killed Science Fiction?</span></a> struck such a chord in 1960, as the book publishers were pulling back from their experiments with sf in the early '50s, the potential for ever more mature, well-written and adventurous sf seemed to be disappearing, and as <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/mags/analog.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Astounding</a></span> and <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/mags/galaxy.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Galaxy</a></span> languished [along with the latter's newly-purchased stablemate, <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/mags/if.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">If</a></span>, <a href="http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2011/09/ffb-worlds-of-if-retrospective.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">treated as a commercial step-sibling</a>] even as they continued to include good and better fiction with the mediocre and worse; <span style="font-style: italic;">F&SF</span> under Robert P. Mills was somewhat less flashy than it had been under "Anthony Boucher", if still good [Mills had done even better at the shortlived companion <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/data/data408.html#VENTURESCIENCEFICTION" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Venture Science Fiction</a></span> previously]; and <span style="font-style: italic;">Fantastic</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/mags/amazing_stories.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Amazing</a></span> were only beginning to recover from the utterly disinterested editorship of Paul W. Fairman, under his former assistant, the green but adventurous <a href="http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2011/05/women-editors-in-fantasy-and-sf-at.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Cele Goldsmith</a>...and all the other magazines in the field were dead by the end of 1960, <a href="http://dispatchfromnewyork.blogspot.com/2008/10/hand-stefan-santesson-etc.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">H.S. Santesson's</a> <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/data/data138.html#FANTASTICUNIVERSE" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Fantastic Universe</a></span> (the <a href="http://www.philsp.com/data/images/f/fantastic_universe_196003.jpg" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">last issue </a>had a garish cover and the beginning of a serialization of <em>The Mind Thing</em> by Fredric Brown and stories by Robert Bloch and Jorge Luis Borges; it was a stablemate of the US edition of <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/mags/saint.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">The Saint Mystery Magazine</a></span>, which Santesson also began editing in '59, succeeding Sam Merwin, who had edited <em>Startling</em> and would move on to <em><a href="http://www.philsp.com/mags/mikeshayne.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine</a></em>) and <a href="http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2011/08/ffb-critical-legacy-of-futurians.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Robert A. W.</a> <a href="http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2009/11/fridays-forgotten-books-ellery-queens.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Lowndes's</a> <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.philsp.com/mags/future_science_fiction.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Science Fiction</a></span> (the last title of the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Awj6AF-BZTcC&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq=Columbia+silberkleit&source=bl&ots=i7ugnCngmg&sig=q951NM5fDNKabSbwaLjSREbs8u4&hl=en&ei=YAy9TqX9BubZ0QHPw-XABA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&sqi=2&ved=0CHcQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Columbia%20silberkleit&f=false" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Columbia pulp and digest chain</a>, publishers of some of the last crime-fiction and western pulps and the <a href="http://www.philsp.com/mags/ten_story_sports.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">last sports-fiction pulp</a>) being the last stragglers to fold. <span style="font-style: italic;">End of digression, pretty much.</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lrar_BE0avA/Trz6i14f6aI/AAAAAAAABys/XBLUoJoFfXU/s1600/Astounding_February_1956.jpg" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673685107066530210" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lrar_BE0avA/Trz6i14f6aI/AAAAAAAABys/XBLUoJoFfXU/s200/Astounding_February_1956.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 5px; position: relative; width: 155px;" /></a>The book begins with a story by retired psychologist Mark Clifton, who turned to sf as a medium for social criticism with vigor, but also (as Malzberg notes) with a keen commercial sense of how to appeal to his primary editor, John Campbell, by writing the kind of stories (about psionic abilities and other ESP-related matters) that JWC was particularly fascinated by in the early to mid 1950s; with "Clerical Error," Clifton was able to strenuously criticize specifically his former profession and the adjoining one of psychiatry, the government cult of classified information, and the tension between actual creative thought and survival in bureaucracy, essentially all matters close to Campbell's heart as well; Barry suspects the rather easy ending was created either in anticipation of Campbell's desire for such, or at his editorial command. The story has not aged badly, as, ridiculously, the degree of these problems hasn't lessened in the slightest since 1956, where it hasn't worsened. Barry has been championing Clifton fairly consistently since the latter 1970s, at least, and has been instrumental in bringing at least some of his work back into print, though the collection (co-edited with Greenberg), <span style="font-style: italic;">The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton</span> (Southern Illinois University Press, 1980), as Barry recalls, sold less than 700 copies--not that SIU Press did much to support it. Clifton's novel with Frank Riley, <span style="font-style: italic;">They'd Rather Be Right</span>, won the second Hugo Award given to a novel, in 1955.<br /><br />"Christopher Anvil" (Harry Crosby)'s "Mind Partner" is also a story about madness, identity and perception, by another "pet" writer of Campbell's, though perhaps it's notable that this story, which Barry suggests is Anvil's best and it's certainly the best I've read by him, was published in Frederik Pohl's <span style="font-style: italic;">Galaxy</span> instead. This one offers a private investigator trying to help bust an apparent drug ring, who move from mostly well-appointed house to house, but leaving a wake of despondent, psychotic addicts whenever authorities close in but fail to apprehend them. It turns out the pushers can alter perception in remarkably labyrinthine ways, including those of anyone who threatens them; our protagonist goes through a not quite recursive set of experiences as dark (in implication often more than in incident) and as well-told as the best of Philip Dick's similar work, and even though this was not one of Barry's choices, it's certainly akin to Malzberg's work in this mode, as well. Like the Clifton, it has a rather too-neat ending, but remains strange and engaging throughout.<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M-669f0_pcY/Trz3ivtYD4I/AAAAAAAABx8/v0cq-9OsAts/s1600/galaxy%2Banvil.jpg" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673681806874382210" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M-669f0_pcY/Trz3ivtYD4I/AAAAAAAABx8/v0cq-9OsAts/s320/galaxy%2Banvil.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 5px; position: relative; width: 240px;" /></a><br /><br />Kris Neville's "Ballenger's People" is the story in the book closest to Malzberg's heart, "the best thing [Neville] has ever written and the best American short story published in its crazy year." as he puts it in the story's headnote; yesterday, he noted in email, "[It] had an enormous influence on my work; I read it at exactly the right time (1967 when published in <span style="font-style: italic;">Galaxy</span>)." It tells the story of a man named Ballenger, whom we discover contains multitudes as well as a pure and abiding love for a percussionist named Angelique and, not irrelevantly, a bone to pick with a Columbia Record Club-style company he had bought his previous love-interest's videotapes from. It is a deft study of not quite functional madness and its affects on those around the madness or treating with their own less obvious sort, akin to both Malzberg's work and Robert Coover's, among others'. And thus, it, too, as is the Garrett which follows, to a great extent another story about identity, perception of identity, and distortion.<br /><br /><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dcSun3KBXjU/Trz6KOOYMVI/AAAAAAAAByg/UUojvmEu4Xc/s1600/galaxy%2Blost%2Bmemory%2Bpp.jpg" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673684684104020306" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dcSun3KBXjU/Trz6KOOYMVI/AAAAAAAAByg/UUojvmEu4Xc/s320/galaxy%2Blost%2Bmemory%2Bpp.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 5px; position: relative; width: 239px;" /></a>"Lost Memory" continues to be a very grim joke, both the title pun and the story as a whole, losing little of its power on rereading, about well-meaning robots doing their best to return an apparently fallen alien machine to mechanical health...while the human within the damaged spaceship they've found does his best to find a way to help them understand his plight. Malzberg notes that he almost chose Phillips's "Dreams are Sacred" over this one, but noted that what made the choice easier was how many writers had echoed "Dreams" over the years, including Barry himself, while "Lost Memory" seemed to serve as the last word on its theme. "Junior," by Robert Abernathy, which follows, is a much lighter sort of conceptual breakthrough comedy, involving a rebellious young male among a society of sentient and hidebound as well as shellbound mollusk-like creatures. It's a bit cute for my taste, but is pleasant and clever enough. It was a Greenberg/Olander choice and Barry also looks upon it fondly.<br /><br />"Laugh Along with Franz" by Norman Kagan was another important story in Barry's career, inasmuch as it challenged him to consider writing sf professionally, as well as providing the example that the kind of thing he wanted to write could be published in sf media. Rather in the mode of the film of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Graduate</span>, only more imaginatively and earlier, and even more so in the mode of such satirical writers (at least when in that mood) as Herbert Gold and Herbert Gold and <a href="http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2009/04/fridays-forgotten-books-nelson-algrens.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Bruce Jay Friedman</a> or <a href="http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2011/09/muriel-spark-public-image-mack-reynolds.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Muriel Spark</a>, only as informed as their fellow-travelers <a href="http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2011/07/ffb-long-stories-ray-nelson-turn-off.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Ray Nelson</a> or <a href="http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2009/04/fridays-forgotten-short-fiction-donald.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">(Ms.) Jody Scott</a> (and certainly Malzberg as well) by sf tradition and, of course, by such allied work as Kafka's as well as by the Beat-begetting-Hippie counterculture, the story deals with a young software engineer at IBM (redubbed ICM) coming to some realizations about what really matters in life, and what might just be a tissue of lies, convenient for the powerful.<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_MtppCIzN-Y/Trz3ttQ-wDI/AAAAAAAAByI/iTDPpCkISY4/s1600/galaxy-dec-1965.jpg" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673681995196973106" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_MtppCIzN-Y/Trz3ttQ-wDI/AAAAAAAAByI/iTDPpCkISY4/s320/galaxy-dec-1965.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 5px; position: relative; width: 233px;" /></a><br /><br />Wyman Guin, perhaps more exclusively famous (to the extent that he is) for What Is Reality fiction than anyone else in sf, thanks to his once widely-reprinted "Beyond Bedlam" (far superior to Evan Hunter's slightly later drugged society story "Malice in Wonderland," if perhaps missing the snappy ad lines of Huxley's most famous fiction), is instead represented here by a mildly misogynist but otherwise deft fantasy, "My Darling Hecate." Guin didn't quite learn the right lessons from Fritz Leiber's <span style="font-style: italic;">Conjure Wife</span>, in this story of an accidental but nonetheless powerful witch, who has remarkable powers she can barely control, when she puts her mind to it. But, again, it plays out rather cleverly, particularly in the manner in which her subconscious plays havoc with the world around her.<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4Y_1bwZRZuI/Trz34wFdtdI/AAAAAAAAByU/UmnvNBAMthc/s1600/beyond.jpg" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673682184932537810" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4Y_1bwZRZuI/Trz34wFdtdI/AAAAAAAAByU/UmnvNBAMthc/s320/beyond.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 5px; position: relative; width: 228px;" /></a><br /><br />I'd just begun the Wallace story, as I write this, the previous night, and while it starts promisingly, with yet another sort of spy or agent making his way through a dangerous city on a world inhabited by amphibian humanoids, I might or might not get to finish it before revising this later today. Barry is almost as enthusiastic about Wallace's work as he is about Clifton's; he sees Wallace's fiction as similar in approach and in reframing the questions we should be asking in science fiction, though Wallace was writing for (the no less demanding, and in both similar and different ways eccentric) H. L. Gold, founding editor of <span style="font-style: italic;">Galaxy</span>, who grew more removed from his editorial work in later '50s less from simply burning out, as Campbell was, than by the weight of failure to achieve his ambitions with his magazine, and the effects of both WW2-induced agoraphobia and pain meds he took, even before an auto-accident during an attempt to go out nearly killed him; this is why Frederik Pohl was apparently editing <span style="font-style: italic;">Galaxy</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">If</span> in all but title no later than 1960, and gradually doing more and more of the work for some time before that. That Wallace was so strongly associated with Gold's version of the magazine might've been a contributing factor in Wallace leaving sf in the late '50s, not finding Pohl the same sort of editor; as Malzberg notes, Wallace published some mystery novels and then ceased writing fiction.<br /><br />And I've finally noted, all these stories come from either Campbell's <span style="font-style: italic;">Astounding</span> (before its retitling as <span style="font-style: italic;">Analog</span> in 1960), or from Gold's <span style="font-style: italic;">Galaxy</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Beyond</span>, or Pohl's 1960s <span style="font-style: italic;">Galaxy</span> (and Pohl had been pretty deeply involved with <span style="font-style: italic;">Galaxy</span> as a contributor of fiction and literary agent for a lot of the other contributors from nearly its beginning under Gold).<br /><br />All told, while this book (more so than the latter <span style="font-style: italic;">Uncollected Stars</span>), has fiction which tends to cluster, as repeatedly noted, around questions of perception and identity, while touching on rather than for the most part dealing directly with other great themes that sf can lend itself to, it's an excellent book to sit and read. And, like the later volume, if not quite to the same extent as the Clifton collection, it was not a commercial success. Like nearly every other book published in the Doubleday Science Fiction imprint, particularly at the production nadir of that line in the late '70s, it's poorly bound (the trade hardcover has a glue binding, not sewn, and in every other way is identical to the probable SF Book Club edition of the time, another arm of Doubleday), given an inept cover (in this case more so than most even for D-day...just look at it), and, as Barry notes, "Doubleday packaged the book contemptuously and dumped it as they dumped all Doubleday sf. Sales were miserable." The Doubleday Science Fiction imprint depended on library sales for nearly all of its income (and was hardly unique in this in hardcover publishing at the time, or for at least a decade or so beforehand and after), and expected those sales to come to a certain amount whether a given book was good, bad or indifferent; no one in Garden City was going to make much effort to help distinguish any given item published thus. The Asimov books would sell better, and Ellison's <span style="font-style: italic;">Dangerous Visions</span> anthology too, or at least sell consistently for longer, but Asimov didn't write much sf any longer, and his sf books from Doubleday were usually about as clumsily-packaged as everyone else's. Everyone else could cry themselves a river. And even as <span style="font-style: italic;">The Silmarillion</span> was setting sales records for hardcover fiction, and the Levin/Tryon/Blatty/King/Rice horror blockbuster trend was starting to become impossible to ignore, no one at D-day was going to try to suggest that a Doubleday Fantasy or Doubleday Horror imprint might be a useful, much less a profitable, idea...nah, those books could continue to be "Doubleday Science Fiction" if they were by some writer a D-day staffer had editorially/promotionally decided wrote sf, five or fifteen years previously...hence, for example, the mislabeling thus of Manly Wade Wellman's John the Balladeer novels in their original editions. <span style="font-style: italic;">(Wellman's historical fantasy novels, too:)</span><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HPQDmPOpkh0/TrzgmZz1gcI/AAAAAAAABxM/yEeOkfOwIEA/s1600/cahena.jpg" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673656580947935682" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HPQDmPOpkh0/TrzgmZz1gcI/AAAAAAAABxM/yEeOkfOwIEA/s400/cahena.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 400px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 5px; position: relative; width: 267px;" /></a><br /><br />And, frankly, these stories remain (at least) good reading, though they also remain difficult to find without seeking out this long out-of-print volume or their original magazine appearances...but you could do much worse with much more effort. The story headnotes and the pointers to more work by the assembled alone might be worth the few bucks to pick up a library discard like mine, in decent shape (mine from the Public Library of Des Moines).<br /><br />And many thanks to <a href="http://www.locusmag.com/2002/Issue04/Malzberg.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Barry Malzberg</a> for letting me pepper him with questions.<br /><br />upgraded slightly from <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/ISFAC/0start.htm#TOC" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">the Contento index:</a><br />Neglected Visions ed. Barry N. Malzberg, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander (Doubleday, 1979, hc) 212pp. Each of the stories is followed by a selective bibliography of the author's other short fiction (and the anthologies and collections where they have been reprinted) and novels.<br /><br />vii · Introduction · Barry N. Malzberg · in<br />1 · Clerical Error · Mark Clifton · nv Astounding Feb ’56<br />35 · Mind Partner · Christopher Anvil · nv Galaxy Aug ’60<br />65 · Ballenger’s People · Kris Neville · ss Galaxy Apr ’67<br />77 · The Hunting Lodge · Randall Garrett · nv Astounding Jul ’54<br />109 · Lost Memory · Peter Phillips · ss Galaxy May ’52<br />122 · Junior · Robert Abernathy · ss Galaxy Jan ’56<br />130 · Laugh Along with Franz · Norman Kagan · nv Galaxy Dec ’65<br />153 · My Darling Hecate · Wyman Guin · nv Beyond Fantasy Fiction Nov ’53<br />171 · Delay in Transit · Floyd L. Wallace · na Galaxy Sep ’52<br /><br />For more of today's shor</b><b>t fic</b><b>tion</b><b>, please see organizer <a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2023/12/short-story-wednesday.html" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;">Patti Abbott's blog.</a></b></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-314059826611405936" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 550px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-314059826611405936" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 550px;"><b><i>A redux-post combo!</i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-77756210936488104782023-12-06T07:55:00.004-05:002023-12-09T05:55:33.534-05:00SSW: "A Game of Vlet" by Joanna Russ (the final Alyx story) THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, February 1974, edited by Edward L. Ferman: Short Story Wednesday<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Joanna Russ was perhaps less prolific than she hoped to be, afflicted as she was with distractingly painful back problems in the last decades of her life (she noted she could only write comfortably while standing, and eventually that didn't help, either), and this might've contributed to the relatively few stories (including a short novel and several novelets) in her influential Alyx series of sword & sorcery fantasies (some science-fantasies, as s&s fiction often dances across that line, if rarely into out and out science fiction), some of the earlier examples to feature a woman protagonist (Catherine L. Moore and her Jirel of Joiry stories were among the relatively few predecessors). Nonetheless, her body of work, nonfiction (including a lot of literary criticism) and mostly early poetry along with her fiction, was influential and often controversial, some of it intentionally, some of it simply because there were too many too easily outraged. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Most of the Alyx stories have been collected in the volumes <i>Alyx</i> (Gregg Press 1976) and <i>The Adventures of Alyx</i> (Pocket Books 1983), but for whatever reason, Russ didn't choose to have today's story, "A Game of Vlet", included in either collection...perhaps because she chose to see the story as a sort of coda to the others, perhaps because she distances even the character in the story from the others by never naming Alyx thus in the 1974 story, though it seems pretty clear we are to understand the trickster and predator on the elite in "Vlet" is Alyx. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9BlrWfI0HvGiw5p6XTleRGIMQgyMw3lW4kWBF7LqDDQml6os9MKL9DDgrRyDcLMHFBHBL7urHXWI5Nj9TC6NJclLeyXiveWND2itujH0iuljhkq9MRpzP4T_V4kTSW7KBo8BP4wVd4NtFhsJ40lm-k-y84uezhvMeAx2cQ5yInVVClNlpFeS9oETZCj9Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="331" data-original-width="210" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9BlrWfI0HvGiw5p6XTleRGIMQgyMw3lW4kWBF7LqDDQml6os9MKL9DDgrRyDcLMHFBHBL7urHXWI5Nj9TC6NJclLeyXiveWND2itujH0iuljhkq9MRpzP4T_V4kTSW7KBo8BP4wVd4NtFhsJ40lm-k-y84uezhvMeAx2cQ5yInVVClNlpFeS9oETZCj9Q=w253-h400" width="253" /></a></b></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The Library of America has produced an omnibus of Russ's work, this one perhaps most driven by the novel <i>The Female Man</i> and its companion story "When It Changed", and the Alyx cycle, collected here with the novellas <i>On Strike Against God</i> (which in contemporary-mimetic terms deals with some of the aspects of <i>The Female Man</i>, and has been too long out of print) and "Souls", and the novel <i>We Who Are About To... </i>(this last in part a slap at and refutation of insanely antifeminist strands in sf perpetuated by such writers as Randall Garrett ["Queen Bee"] and particularly and most directly Marion Zimmer Bradley [<i>Darkover Landfall</i>]; Russ and Bradley had an exchange of letters about Vonda McIntyre's unfavorable review of the Bradley novel in the early feminist fantasy/sf fanzine <a href="https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Witch_and_the_Chameleon"><i>The Witch and the Chameleon</i>, and excerpts from the letters can be read here</a>. </b></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6VE-F9wo2SP1aLmqyy9QpT5UrOgtamgmThRex4jq3S_8-xQUcCbbKKvJIo1I_ufhXxI6MPCeCd0Wu6Lkc63tYBgkPhHO0giFgtfeHb3LPh-i2GLgy4Gk0ZwJ5bYnC_hlrpPnpVru8wiCYeb4fy7X-05o1755MKS-6Ia638U8MfB-7JpcN6JwmOAPCB_aU" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="325" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6VE-F9wo2SP1aLmqyy9QpT5UrOgtamgmThRex4jq3S_8-xQUcCbbKKvJIo1I_ufhXxI6MPCeCd0Wu6Lkc63tYBgkPhHO0giFgtfeHb3LPh-i2GLgy4Gk0ZwJ5bYnC_hlrpPnpVru8wiCYeb4fy7X-05o1755MKS-6Ia638U8MfB-7JpcN6JwmOAPCB_aU=w273-h400" width="273" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Russ contributes one of her series of book review columns to this issue as well;<a href="https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v046n02_1974-02/page/n71/mode/1up"> the issue can be read here</a>; "A Game of Vlet" follows the review essay.</b></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But it is useful, as LOA editor Nicole Rudick notes, to have all the Alyx stories together, and in introducing <a href="https://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2023/10/a-game-of-vlet.html">"A Game of Vlet" for "The Story of the Week" web-feature</a>, she notes that Russ's friend Samuel Delany was inspired by this story to do his own sword & sorcery sequence of stories, the Neveryon cycle (as well as having characters play Vlet in his sf novel <i>Triton</i>), and that Russ was in turn sparked to write this story by Avram Davidson's historical fantasy <i>The Phoenix and the Mirror</i>, in which Vergil Magus attempts to create a virgin speculum, with certain powers it confers. Rudick doesn't note the degree to which Russ's friend Fritz Leiber, a grandmaster in chess competitions, made chess and chess-like gaming a part of his s&s series of stories, running from vignettes and novels, and vlet if anything is a magically-powerful elaboration on chess (Russ and Leiber also wrote one story each in their sword and sorcery cycles that features the character from the other's...Fafhrd, the Leiber character who is in a few ways based on Leiber himself appears in Russ's "I Thought She Was Afeard Until She Stroked My Beard", and Alyx, based in a few ways on Russ, appears in Leiber's "The Two Best Thieves in Lankhmar")...Leiber's and Russ's careers had certain other parallels, as well, quite aside from being two of the most literarily innovative writers in fantastica. As was Davidson, as Delany remains, albeit he's moving, I think, toward complete retirement in re: fiction-writing.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The story is politically charged and cleverly worked out, and brief...Russ noted that she had no more stories to write about Alyx after its publication; had she lived longer and more healthily, she might've eventually found some more to say. Alyx in her late years might've made an excellent study.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Previously to the LOA omnibus, the only Russ volume "A Game of Vlet" was included in was the fine collection <i>The Zanzibar Cat</i>, which saw a small-press-run edition from Arkham House (with a rather ugly cover) and a somewhat better package from Baen Books (I believe I have both editions in the chaotic personal library):</span></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBtGV8qD2XzpLPj5PBc3DsCTjnR8xaa7FdiXii7sW7MIpGx2XT_C9EZke1eeWpFxaB3CYqxYAL2gYgm7HO2fHlFYT2WHKVYecm0H0RYQ5WTkNBJtk1WXoz91836zaOygddWml2nXNTfCfZ_TzLFw8GOOvDqI8ZAaFsPz-h_HDFvMig4Fs_oUQthDttUW5U" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="385" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBtGV8qD2XzpLPj5PBc3DsCTjnR8xaa7FdiXii7sW7MIpGx2XT_C9EZke1eeWpFxaB3CYqxYAL2gYgm7HO2fHlFYT2WHKVYecm0H0RYQ5WTkNBJtk1WXoz91836zaOygddWml2nXNTfCfZ_TzLFw8GOOvDqI8ZAaFsPz-h_HDFvMig4Fs_oUQthDttUW5U=w384-h640" width="384" /></a></div><br /><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?25765">ISFDB</a> is only aware of it having been otherwise reprinted in the French edition (but not the US ones) of Jessica Amanda Salmonson's anthology <i>Amazons! </i>and Joan and Fred Saberhagen's chess fantasy story anthology <i>Pawn to Infinity</i> (the ISFDB doesn't yet have a complete entry on the LOA omnibus). At this moment, the FictionMags Index doesn't have "Vlet" tagged as an Alyx story. We'll see about getting these lacunae filled...</span></b><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/search?q=joanna+russ" style="color: #a32823; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Joanna Russ on Sweet Freedom</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For more of today's SSW entries, please see <a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2023/12/short-story-wednesday-hard-boiled.html">Patti Abbott's blog.</a></span></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguOBraXV2XBEFZJ3FA4sj1PyEtj442PhrQmuVI7u8eU2T-KR6rJsucr_zlatIZY8EnXXM3JiLCKIEpsZLbpabelh_NhWmrrgsnMLsXfn0zC7Z35gHVpmCWPYKVO8EHZZNJvt3YU0IZcuOgcyTojPzxncNde6XEkIc8w8Z46IU2b62TVS11j2PvHEG0EpST/s300/short%20story%20wed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguOBraXV2XBEFZJ3FA4sj1PyEtj442PhrQmuVI7u8eU2T-KR6rJsucr_zlatIZY8EnXXM3JiLCKIEpsZLbpabelh_NhWmrrgsnMLsXfn0zC7Z35gHVpmCWPYKVO8EHZZNJvt3YU0IZcuOgcyTojPzxncNde6XEkIc8w8Z46IU2b62TVS11j2PvHEG0EpST/s1600/short%20story%20wed.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p></p></div>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-67060842002806178522023-12-02T13:51:00.026-05:002023-12-03T13:35:43.268-05:00Some 1949-1958 US television Xmas/related programming of sorts!<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>US commercial </i></span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>television syndica</i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>tion</i>: </span></b><b style="font-family: georgia;">T</b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">HE CHRIS</span></b><b style="font-family: georgia;">T</b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">MAS CAROL (sic), as narra</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">ted by Vincen</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t Price, and commissioned by </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">television manufac</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">turer Magnavox in 1949 and fed </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">to 22 s</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">ta</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">tions in i</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">ts firs</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t run</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">. One of </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">the earlier</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> US non-ne</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">twork produc</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">tions </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">to have survived, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Christmas_Carol">apparen</a></span></b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Christmas_Carol"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">tly </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">the earlies</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t known ex</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">an</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> US </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">television adap</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">ta</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">tion of </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">the Dickens s</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Christmas_Carol">tory.</a> </span></b><b style="font-family: georgia;">T</b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">he younger Cra</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">tchi</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t daugh</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">ter was played by Jill S</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t. John when she wen</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t by Jill Oppenheim, apparen</span></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;">tly among </b><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">her firs</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>t professional credi</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;">ts (at age 9).</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">
<iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/7p-Qfg96FEc?si=Fe3PiXDbvfiNQxuF" width="480"></iframe> </span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Television_Network"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Paramoun<span><span>t </span></span></i></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Television Ne</i></b></a><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Television_Network">twork</a>: </i></b><b style="font-family: georgia;">TIME FOR BEANY, #421, 11 April 1951 (as you migh</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t ga</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">ther, I haven'</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t found a more Sols</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tice-adjacen</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t episode, bu</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t a</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t leas</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">this episode makes gra</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tui</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tous reference </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Saswotg_USo">Ina Ray Hu</a></b><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Saswotg_USo">t</a></b><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Saswotg_USo">ton</a>, also [wi</b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>th her Orches</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;">t</b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>ra]</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;"> on Paramoun</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t's never-</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">too-robus</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t early-mid '50s L. A.-based ne</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">twork</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">. </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">Bob Clampe</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t, S</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tan Freberg, Daws Bu</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tler, e</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t al.--Alber</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t Eins</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tein and </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">the young Frank Zappa among<i> </i></b><b style="font-family: georgia;">the devo</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">ted fans. Won </b></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">three Emmy Awards</span></b> </span><b style="font-family: georgia;">and was nomina</b><b style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">ted for a</span></b><b style="font-family: georgia;"> Peabody Award and </b><b style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">thus was </span></b><b style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the mos</span></b><b style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">t honored Paramoun</span></b><b style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">t Ne</span></b><b style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">twork series</span></b><b style="font-family: georgia;">, and </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">the '60s <i>Beany and Cecil</i> car</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">toon was a revival</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">). </b></span></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/RT_ltoxmB4c?si=9kk1xrgwuFZ-ETyM" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RT_ltoxmB4c/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">DuMon</span></b><b style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">t Ne</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>twork</i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>: </i>CAVALCADE OF S</span></b><b style="font-family: georgia;">TARS, "A Honeymooners Chris</b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">tmas", 21 December 1951, wi</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">th Ar</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t Carney, Joyce Randolph, Jackie Gleason and Per</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t Kel</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">ton in </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">this pre-Audrey Meadows performance ...when </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">the Honeymooners were a recurring ske</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">tch on </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">the varie</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">ty series...</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="420" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=420&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FMuseumTV%2Fvideos%2F10154369350628920%2F&show_text=false&width=560&t=0" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="560"></iframe></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>NBC: </i>YOUR HI</span></b></span></span><b style="font-family: georgia;">T PARADE, Chris</b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">tmas Eve 1955 episode. Absolu</span></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">tely no</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">thing non-pop, even given </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">the #1 song for </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">this episode is "Six</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">teen </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">T</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">ons", no</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">t even performed by </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">T</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">ennessee Ernie Ford much less </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szbwQbe1NsI">Merle </a></b><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szbwQbe1NsI">Travis</a></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;"> original, bu</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">t by Snooky Lanson. Bu</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">t </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">the</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;"> Xmas music is mos</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">tly well-performed...</b></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/PZ6VRKPbnYU?si=HxQp7re9zEhHnmK1" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PZ6VRKPbnYU/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Canadian Annex: <i>CBC</i>: <a href="https://www.nfb.ca/collection/spot-television-series/edition1/episode3/">ON </a></span></b><a href="https://www.nfb.ca/collection/spot-television-series/edition1/episode3/"><b style="font-family: georgia;">THE SPO</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">T, <span style="color: #666666;">"Chris</span></b><b style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #666666;">tmas Comes </span></b></a><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.nfb.ca/collection/spot-television-series/edition1/episode3/"><span style="color: #666666;">Twice"</span></a>; a 1955 episode from <i>OTS </i>'s firs</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">t season, abou</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">t </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">the seasonal celebra</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">tions of Ukrainian-Canadians, and </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">their aspira</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">tions for an independen</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">t Ukraine.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;"><i>CBS</i>: </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM, 1957 </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">tv </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">version of "Chris</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">tmas Shopping"; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9a-hosbNt8">here's </a></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9a-hosbNt8">the 1960 version.</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiIyq_NSTEg">And </a></b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiIyq_NSTEg"><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;"><b>the 1961 "Chris</b></span><b style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">tmas Par</b><b style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">ty" episode.</b></a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/ypPX7OUbWWg?si=iK_Amk9OGDmhbsOj" width="480"></iframe></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i>ABC</i>: AMERICAN BANDS</b></span></span><b style="font-family: georgia;">T</b><b style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">AND, 18 December 1957, apparen</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">tly in </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">the firs</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">t season of na</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">tional broadcas</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;">t. Apparently also, a 25 Dec-scheduled episode was recorded (presumably earlier on)...unavailable, as far as I see now.</b></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/SOuNMhWWhQI?si=J5pqhLwzPwsg89vW" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SOuNMhWWhQI/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2019/07/195758national-educational-television.html"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>N</i></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>TA Film Ne</i></b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span></b></a><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2019/07/195758national-educational-television.html">work</a>: </i>AR</b></span></span><b style="font-family: georgia;">T</b><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b> FORD'S JAZZ PARTY, </b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>"Tribute to Buddy Bolden", </b></span></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">the final episode, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">transmi</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">ted 0n WN</span></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>TA on 25 December 1958 and sof</b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span></b><b style="font-family: georgia;">-fed </b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">to affilia</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">es (</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">he link includes </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">hree no</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t qui</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">te comple</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">te </span></b><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">episodes, including </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">the New Orleans jazz special </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">tha</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t was held for </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">the final episode, las</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t of </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">the </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">hree</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">). Par</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>t of <i>Jazz Par</i></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i>ty</i>'s wide dis</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tribu</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tion ci</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">ted during </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">the second</b><b style="font-family: georgia;"> episode in </b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;">the IA queue</b><b style="font-family: georgia;"> </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">was due </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">to i</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">ts clearance on </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">the US Armed Forces </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">television services around </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">the world, and perhaps some local civilian clearance in some coun</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tries.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/ArtFordsjazzParty1958" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="640"></iframe></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2019/07/195758national-educational-television.html"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>NE</i></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>T (</i></b></span></a><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><a href="https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2019/07/195758national-educational-television.html">National Educational Television)</a></i>: A LARGE SPECK OF PROGRESS, a short 1958 fantasy parable, not light-handed but certainly earnest and rather cleverly produced on a budget at the Ann Arbor/University of Michigan produc</span></b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tion s</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">tudio, presumably for firs</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t broadcas</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t on De</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">troi</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t </b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">NET station W</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">TVS </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">(more than a decade before PBS supplanted NET as the primary US national public-broadcasting network).</span></b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/2WeDF1cKJIQ?si=qKN-F0QM6jiny_26" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2WeDF1cKJIQ/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></span></b></p><p><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Happy Sols</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">tice/New Year Holidays!</span></b></span></i></p>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-61058702541690458492023-11-22T04:07:00.030-05:002023-11-26T12:35:04.773-05:00SSW: "The Dead Women" by Marguerite Young, AMERICAN PREFACES, V.8 #3, 1943 issue, edited by Louise Garrigus/Jean Garrigue and Paul Engle; "The Day They Got Boston" by Herbert Gold, METRONOME, January 1961, edited by Bill Coss: Short Story Wednesday<p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">stories by <span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368;"><a href="https://www.herbertgold.com/">Herbert Gold</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;"> (March 9, 1924-November 19, 2023) and </span><a href="https://www.margueriteyoung.site/who-is-marguerite-young/announcements/"><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368;">Marguerite</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368;"><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/marguerite-young">Young</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;">(August 26, 1908-November 17, 1995)</span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7wRLMxlkMBIGLG4ctaiM1YSP1o_X_f4K1fJ7zbZebtJHDXsndvx2yP8TqPRlzs-POVU4d5So6PjeTzhuLbVKEWs3W8VHH9SruN8hMSxweopWhqxZe3EP37-5v85Yh6DCrbbQtDixPANsxj2Hte69-Wc7w85f8TNZIVqPXtiEW0i7GotVMWp_sgxEJjqVR" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="108" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7wRLMxlkMBIGLG4ctaiM1YSP1o_X_f4K1fJ7zbZebtJHDXsndvx2yP8TqPRlzs-POVU4d5So6PjeTzhuLbVKEWs3W8VHH9SruN8hMSxweopWhqxZe3EP37-5v85Yh6DCrbbQtDixPANsxj2Hte69-Wc7w85f8TNZIVqPXtiEW0i7GotVMWp_sgxEJjqVR=w267-h400" width="267" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>One of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Schramm">Wilbur Schramm</a>'s las</b><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;">t issues before going in</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;">to mili</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;">tary service a</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;">t </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;">the end of 1942</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;">. A modes</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white;"><b>t li</b></span></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">t</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">tle </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white;"><b>magazine and ra</b></span></span><b style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: georgia;">ther obscure </b><b style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: georgia;">today</b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white;"><b>, apparen</b></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white;"><b>tly ini</b><b style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);">tially </b><b>16pp per issue, and <a href="https://uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/DetailsPage.aspx?id=331">founded by Schramm in 1935 a</a></b></span></span><a href="https://uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/DetailsPage.aspx?id=331"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white;">t</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white;">t</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white;">he Universi</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white;">ty of Iowa</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white;"><b>, along wi</b></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;">th his founding and serving</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;"> as firs</span></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">t </span></a><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/DetailsPage.aspx?id=331"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;">chair of </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;">the Iowa Wri</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;">ter's Workshop in 1936</span></a><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/DetailsPage.aspx?id=331">.</a> Louise Garrigus </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white;"><b>(la</b></span></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white;">ter more famous as poe</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white;">t and academic <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jean-garrigue">Jean Garrigue</a>)</span></span></b><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">, apparen</span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white;">t</span></span></b><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">ly a former s</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">tuden</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">t of Young's a</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">t Shor</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">tridge High School in Indianapolis, and later, briefly roommates, edi</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">ted, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Engle">Paul Engle</a>, wha</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">t final, 1943 issues were published, including Volume 8, Number 3,</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;"> which fea</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">tur</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">ed Young's s</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">tory..."The Dead Women" is only one of </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">t</span><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">hree shor</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">t s</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">tories (0ne previously unpublished) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">the Dalkey Archive chose </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">to include in </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">their <a href="https://archive.org/details/invitingmusessto00youn/page/10/mode/2up">1994 re</a></span><a href="https://archive.org/details/invitingmusessto00youn/page/10/mode/2up"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">trospec</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">tive collec</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><b>tion of her prose, </b><i><b>Inviting the Muses</b></i></span></a><b>,<span style="font-family: georgia;"> which they wanted to offer alongside their reprint of her famously large 1965 novel <i>Miss Mackintosh, My Darling</i>, and apparently ei</span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">ther </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">the only ones she had chosen </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">to keep or </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">the only </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">three she had wri</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">t</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">ten or finished--mos</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">t of her early publica</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">tions had been poe</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">try (which Sublunary Press has reprinted), and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">the <i>Muses</i> volume is mos</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;">tly made up of her short essays and book reviews (she also has at least two notable book-length nonfiction works, one on utopian community experiments in the U.S., and one on Eugene V. Debs, the union and US Socialist Party cofounder, and a presidential candidate who ran in his last campaign from prison, as the wildly overrated Woodrow Wilson couldn't tolerate critique of WWI).</span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>There are some similarities among the three stories, the previously unpublished one which leads off, "My Grandmother's Foot" deals in part with importunate men, disability, and at least one woman with unbreakable spirit; "Old James" (from the <i>Kenyon Review</i>) touches on similar matters. But "The Dead Women" is a brief story about a mortuary cosmetologist, as she goes about her work on various cadavers, including one old man but mostly women, trying to suss out how they best would've liked to be presented for the last time, while being interrupted by her father and her father-in-law, importunate old men (and one wi</b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>th a damaged foo</span><span>t)</span></span></b><b style="font-family: georgia;">, and thinking about how she has been coping and will cope with her pregnancy, as the various tasks we read about occur at various stages of her gestation; happily, her husband is utterly supportive, if mostly "off-stage" in the narrative, but she has nothing but good memories of her man, while doing her best not to be too distracted by the older gen and their chatter and attempts at charming bluster. It's a solid story, makes its points reasonably subtly, and reflects some of Young's early experience in the rural Midwest. </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href=" https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/09/19/the-most-unread-book-ever-acclaimed/"><i>The Paris Review</i> </a>and </b><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-longest-least-remembered-great-american-novel"><i>The New Yorker </i></a>on Young and </b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Miss Mackintosh, My Darling.</i></span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/herb-gold-san-francisco-author-obituary-17815422"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Herbert Gold's obi</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;">t</b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>uary in<i> </i></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i>The </i></b><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> (his home</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">own paper for mos</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t</b><b style="font-family: georgia;"> of his life).</b></span></a> <b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="background-color: white;">(Courtesy Gordon Van Gelder) ...</i></span></b><a href="https://buffalonews.com/herbert-gold-99-postwar-novelist-of-love-and-marriage/article_43ffdce7-1067-5b5e-8350-13a7633a07d9.html"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i>The New York </i></b><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Times</i> obi</b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span></b><b style="font-family: georgia;">uary, cour</b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span></b><b style="font-family: georgia;">esy<i> </i></b><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i>The</i> </b><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Buffalo News</i></b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDVkmcC4OD6_AzaNKtGPoIb37nHcJ1c_0IFpwU8yOqZLtKyiSsgqS4-PRH_XoPxKOr68VunJFHzliJnS1D7bmot7pbmT399E5_uyVFpuWAQii7qdLvWkiO14c7VvibdAckNoSWG2_MMHkW5b5vBGzBKGR9AdCRqtzpcprCeZzJETsH0UxzTN-7llg6lzb9/s1600/meronome.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDVkmcC4OD6_AzaNKtGPoIb37nHcJ1c_0IFpwU8yOqZLtKyiSsgqS4-PRH_XoPxKOr68VunJFHzliJnS1D7bmot7pbmT399E5_uyVFpuWAQii7qdLvWkiO14c7VvibdAckNoSWG2_MMHkW5b5vBGzBKGR9AdCRqtzpcprCeZzJETsH0UxzTN-7llg6lzb9/w400-h300/meronome.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Not the correct issue of </i>Metronome<i>, either! See below.</i></td></tr></tbody></table>Meanwhile, Herbert Gold, who died the other day at age 99, was once one of the most prolific and prominently-published young writers in the U. S., and kept up a rather consistent career well into his later life...not least known for his satiric view of lust and love, and for similar drives in our lives and those of others like or somewhat unlike us (the first novel I read of his was <i>Salt</i>, about aggressive businessmen and how they work and live)...par</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia;">t</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">icularly as he would write some fantastica throughout his career. "The Day They Got Boston" is a densely mocking account of how the Soviet Union manages to accidentally nuke the Hub and some of its environs one day in the world as it existed in 1961, and what the metaphorical as well as actual fallout might be--mutations from exposure to radioactivity particularly noted at Seven Sisters colleges, the bargaining for which Soviet city will be destroyed in penance for Boston/Cambridge, how De Gaulle demands France be allowed in on the Fun. (This was written and published before the novel [or film] <i>Fail-Safe</i>, though after the straitlaced initial inspiration for<i> Dr. Strangelove</i>, <i>Red Alert</i>, was published.) It perhaps betrays 1961 a bit in that it doesn't seem to occur to Gold that Seven Sisters women might not need exposure to radiation to find sexual and romantic comfort in each other...</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>This story was actually published not in the issue of jazz magazine <i>Metronome</i> pictured above, but like the <i>American Prefaces</i> issue pictured above, its a poachable image of an issue of the venerable music magazine, devoted mostly to jazz for some decades by 1961, within some months of it, too, folding, at the end of '61...even as the magazine was branching out into interesting, even avant-garde fiction as well as music coverage...<a href="https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Metronome/60s/Metronome-1961-01.pdf">the January issue</a> (which can be read in its entirety at that link, though I haven't yet fiddled with it enough to copy the cover image), with the Gold story, also includes an early English translation of Alfred Jarry, and Jack Gelber's court-driven crime story, "The King of Shades"...along with such more usual <i>Metronome</i> content as Nat Hentoff's assessment of the Third Stream (the confluence of jazz and classical music, ranging from George Russell, and Max Roach and Jimmy Giuffre in some projects, Teo Macero and the Brubeck Quartet and the Modern Jazz Quartet, to Gunther Schuller and David Amram, to Ellington and Gershwin and other earlier explorers), and a fea</b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">tured i</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">tem</span></span></b><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> by a young jazz journalist, Ted White (not yet assisting at </span></span><i style="font-family: georgia;">The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, much less editing </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Fantastic</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> and </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Amazing</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">), a profile/albums-review</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">piece about Charles Mingus's work (speaking of those who would enrich the Third Stream) that particularly pleased Mingus for Getting what he was doing, and which I take to be White's proudest achievement in his early jazz journalism.</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Sadly, even the distributor label on the cover of the January <i>Metronome</i>, Acme, boded ill...Acme, ironically, was a bottom of the market magazine distributor, and even though they would distribute the no-budget Robert Lowndes-edited <i>Magazine of Horror </i>and other worthy titles in the years to come, were not a sign of robust commercial prospects for any magazine.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg02t9JX4kpPMWmD0Hko21OlVx9-XD8ZJ3i10wE_wp95FqbzXh5KAteWr6sTr5hfMbA44s0Bc67Zqrn7dj2cw2lYPGQowlAmZEu5v6fwbGNIfgV4p5TjvAzt7oh4MazIxrwHRb-fz7lVJwwx5487HXQbMlcv4nOt_S6_DLOvrjN1dX6Iar_4xqDgNQULQhr/s600/FSFSep1961.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="417" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg02t9JX4kpPMWmD0Hko21OlVx9-XD8ZJ3i10wE_wp95FqbzXh5KAteWr6sTr5hfMbA44s0Bc67Zqrn7dj2cw2lYPGQowlAmZEu5v6fwbGNIfgV4p5TjvAzt7oh4MazIxrwHRb-fz7lVJwwx5487HXQbMlcv4nOt_S6_DLOvrjN1dX6Iar_4xqDgNQULQhr/w445-h640/FSFSep1961.jpg" width="445" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>A somewhat healthier commercial property, <i>The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</i>, decided to pick up the Gold story for reprint in <a href="https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v021n03_1961-09_PDF/page/n23/mode/1up">their September 1961 issue</a> (which can be read at the link), as edited by Robert P. Mills (the most famous story published during the Mills editorship might well still be the most famous the magazine has ever published, the short form of "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes--though Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" and Stephen King's first version [and terrible juvenilia as firs</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">t</span></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;"> published] of "The Gunslinger" are among the challengers there). The <i>F&SF</i> reprint is lacking the couple of illustrations in the jazz magazine (one of which doesn't reproduce well at all online, alas, at least apparently), but the filler that follows "Boston" is its own kind of curiosa, being one of the "Ferdinand Feghoot" pun anecdotes that Reginald Bretnor would write for the magazine, signing himself as "Grendel Briarton", and in this case crediting "Herman W. Mudgett" with inspiration for the pun which ends it..."Mudgett" being one of the names of the Chicago Exposition <i>Devil in the White City</i> murderer and a pseudonym that "Tony Boucher"/William White would use, in his capacity as <i>F&SF</i> editor before Mills, to sign short light verse used as fillers in his issues. The joke is premised upon a 1967 crisis at Fort Knox that is solved mostly by still-president John F. Kennedy, Sr., "still alert and decisive"...which takes on a special poignance, particularly for his admirers, considering this is the 60th anniversary of JFK's assassination (and the wounding of John Connally) as I write this...</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>For more of today's Short Stories, please see <a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2023/11/short-story-wednesday-beauty-contest.html">Patti Abbott's blog</a>.<br /></b></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrWXllja4fn96zQ0xKr2qVZdNPjQ8oeEZlW10emLqjuzEBvNXFZ_XmHkb2T9OSjYcxsAitShLpgHd365dNj59Hm4943lrVSAx93tXcI18CbIjRhShpFcQ0nqGRMQB0zNNuTzMjYQ75jyKlxcXgMAEVkPj_1jBDge9J87Wi5V89aWdaW2oHDdlTq9wuELYY/s300/short%20story%20wed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrWXllja4fn96zQ0xKr2qVZdNPjQ8oeEZlW10emLqjuzEBvNXFZ_XmHkb2T9OSjYcxsAitShLpgHd365dNj59Hm4943lrVSAx93tXcI18CbIjRhShpFcQ0nqGRMQB0zNNuTzMjYQ75jyKlxcXgMAEVkPj_1jBDge9J87Wi5V89aWdaW2oHDdlTq9wuELYY/w400-h224/short%20story%20wed.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span></div></div>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-71093888602156401912023-11-15T07:55:00.014-05:002023-11-22T01:33:42.354-05:00SSW: "Dead Women" by Allie Mariano, PHILADELPHIA STORIES, Fall 2020; Fiction Editor: Teresa Sari FitzPatrick<p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://philadelphiastories.org/article/the-dead-women-second-place-winner-of-the-marguerite-mcglinn-prize-for-fiction/">Can be read here: <i>https://philadelphiastories.org/article/the-dead-women-second-place-winner-of-the-marguerite-mcglinn-prize-for-fiction/</i></a></span></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTnOFV6U8uZVO2lAnMlsxI8Fv6MJl0QpmFNqd-Bq9pBJBdPAYPZWYiDQmd5Z4Ew4LOQqTVxDMAFl7UOj21oU4XCjPlj2FTHTXkEwk9m8lyc52LgUOEXA2nmFEtO74GsLqSLq37tscMPxZWQA1Kcr4QaoYIKiVtlLkBvGk_bmi6h3vAoxtRGXnGXUoIM54K" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTnOFV6U8uZVO2lAnMlsxI8Fv6MJl0QpmFNqd-Bq9pBJBdPAYPZWYiDQmd5Z4Ew4LOQqTVxDMAFl7UOj21oU4XCjPlj2FTHTXkEwk9m8lyc52LgUOEXA2nmFEtO74GsLqSLq37tscMPxZWQA1Kcr4QaoYIKiVtlLkBvGk_bmi6h3vAoxtRGXnGXUoIM54K=w299-h400" width="299" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b>T</b></span><b><span>he FictionMags discussion lis</span></b><b><span>t</span></b><b><span> had a bit of a discussion of Marguerite Young a few weeks back, sparked by a <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-longest-least-remembered-great-american-novel"><i>New Yorker</i> "rediscovery" of her most ridiculously long novel</a> (half a decade ago,<i> <a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/09/19/the-most-unread-book-ever-acclaimed/">The Paris Review</a></i><a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/09/19/the-most-unread-book-ever-acclaimed/"> likewise took a whack</a>). Given how Young tended </span></b><b><span>to be drawn </span></b><b><span>to subjec</span></b><b><span>t</span></b><b><span>s </span></b><b><span>tha</span></b><b><span>t I am also, </span></b><b><span>I was moved </span></b><span>t<b>o search for her shor</b><b>ter work I </b></span><b><span>though</span></b><b>t I migh</b><b>t've read over </b><b>the years, and "</b><b><span>The Dead Women" (collec</span></b><b><span>ted in </span></b><b><span>the Dalkey Archive re</span></b><b><span>trospec</span></b><span><b>tive<a href="https://archive.org/details/invitingmusessto00youn/page/10/mode/2up"> </a></b><i><b><a href="https://archive.org/details/invitingmusessto00youn/page/10/mode/2up">I</a></b></i></span><i><b><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/invitingmusessto00youn/page/10/mode/2up">nviting the Muses: Stories, Essays, Reviews</a>, </span></span></b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><b><span>1994) proved elusive (if easier to find when one isn't catching something, but instead recovering)</span></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: georgia;"><b><span>, bu</span></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span>t </span></b><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span>this story, </span></b><b style="font-family: georgia;">with a similar ti</b><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span>tle, </span></b><b style="font-family: georgia;">popped up, and given I've not mentioned anything from <i>Philadelphia Stories </i>for a while..</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">.</b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Allie Mariano's story is def</b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tly-written, a relatively slow burn as i</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t con</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tras</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ts a youngish academic's unwise affair wi</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th a married man (riddled wi</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">th </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the usual charac</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ter's [and people's?] </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">fan</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tasies of How Every</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">thing Will Surely Go Swimmingly) and a party being </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">thrown by elder fellow academics who set her up, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to some degree, with an Appropria</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">te Young Male Relative, as the dinner conversation is domina</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ted by recen</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t revela</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tions, in </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">this New Orleans-se</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t s</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tory, of a string of murders of young women sex workers. Every</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">thing, including a lonely middle-aged male highway pa</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">trolman pulling her over on her way home </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to her paramour af</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ter </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the par</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ty, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">touches on </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the po</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ten</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tial menace of con</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">temporary life, invi</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ted and o</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">therwise, and while i</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t's no</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t a revela</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tion of a s</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tory, I'll </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">take a look a</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t fur</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ther work by Mariano. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Philadelphia Storie</i>s is a freely-dis</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tributed slim prin</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t magazine, as well as web presence, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tha</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t has been visible in </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the city and environs for more </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">than two decades, and more power to i</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t. For more of </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">today's shor</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t s</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tories, please see <a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2023/11/short-story-wednesday-summer-before.html">Pa</a></span></b><a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2023/11/short-story-wednesday-summer-before.html"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ti Abbo</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">t</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2023/11/short-story-wednesday-summer-before.html">t's blog</a>, where these are ga</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">thered weekly.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKhi63ROFTHZRVLe-EmwTaJyaQEWVwHe0xoiYdv3xep1xxjpsL3VdPRAKZIt0nfYnv0lBxgDsWYus18gRo61cNLQMpxwBVALG3FEiUjVxorT4VH8eKOgx3m4xILEwFyRxQLWNez9TFKZHuaj3BtBtDx1eocslkhjPjuqvN4RO0quf46xGmlx_haUlCSq21" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKhi63ROFTHZRVLe-EmwTaJyaQEWVwHe0xoiYdv3xep1xxjpsL3VdPRAKZIt0nfYnv0lBxgDsWYus18gRo61cNLQMpxwBVALG3FEiUjVxorT4VH8eKOgx3m4xILEwFyRxQLWNez9TFKZHuaj3BtBtDx1eocslkhjPjuqvN4RO0quf46xGmlx_haUlCSq21=w640-h358" width="640" /></a><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></b></div><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-41754327131851424992023-10-18T11:13:00.018-04:002023-11-17T23:31:43.006-05:0020th Anniversary Issues: THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION October 1969, edited by Edward Ferman, and FANTASTIC August 1972, edited by Ted White: Short Story Wednesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ99bPhwWsa4rUS48JWxl3wfqGS3fhd1aScgfUiG2T2i2QWMu_gywKrv0UiZQsw0cCp0U1tc4odywdmCugmEfBPE6pRFr9bRkYuy0FlrZBzAPN4r5qedHn9xbAnOOC0WnsBKhgY1Rb7dbRiXPFBYc8_AykY7LalOB1skf79PCWVhLQ_4WhLeqbBDScWqbQ/s1147/Fantasy__Science_Fiction_v037n04_1969-10_PDF_0000.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1147" data-original-width="794" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ99bPhwWsa4rUS48JWxl3wfqGS3fhd1aScgfUiG2T2i2QWMu_gywKrv0UiZQsw0cCp0U1tc4odywdmCugmEfBPE6pRFr9bRkYuy0FlrZBzAPN4r5qedHn9xbAnOOC0WnsBKhgY1Rb7dbRiXPFBYc8_AykY7LalOB1skf79PCWVhLQ_4WhLeqbBDScWqbQ/w443-h640/Fantasy__Science_Fiction_v037n04_1969-10_PDF_0000.jpg" width="443" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v037n04_1969-10_PDF/mode/1up?view=theater">this issue can be read here</a></i></span></li></ul></div><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><i>The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, October 1969</span></span></b></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">(<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?20325">View All Issues</a>) (<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/seriesgrid.cgi?20325">View Issue Grid</a>)</span></b></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Editor:</b> <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1090">Edward L. Ferman</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Date:</b> 1969-10-00</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Publisher:</b> <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?8911">Mercury Press, Inc.</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Price:</b> <div class="tooltip tooltipright" style="display: inline; position: relative;">$0.60<span class="tooltiptext tooltipnarrow tooltipright" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid black; left: 1020.59px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 3px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; visibility: hidden; width: 150px; z-index: 1;"></span></div></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Pages:</b> 132</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Format:</b> <div class="tooltip tooltipright" style="display: inline; position: relative;">digest</div></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Cover:</b> <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?938034"><i>The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</i>, October 1969</a> by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1806">Ron Walotsky</a> [as by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?81617">Ronald Walotsky</a>]</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">fep/2 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?825515">untitled</a> • interior artwork by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?494">Chesley Bonestell</a> [from ISFDB: </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Description of illustration by Bonestell on fep [<i>unnumbered but paginated front end paper/inside front cover]</i>; "Russian astronauts have arrived on the rim of Copernicus only to discover that the Americans have already been there, and one has even carved his name on a rock--an old American custom." ("see page 43" as noted on Contents/copyright page, full description on p.43).] <i>[Well, cosmonauts--though a nice and not-invalid parting shot at Yanks. TM]</i></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">4 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?53524">Feminine Intuition</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?14541">Susan Calvin</a>/robot stories] • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?5">Isaac Asimov</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">24 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?53527">Come to Me Not in Winter's White</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?25">Harlan Ellison</a> <b>and</b> <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?69">Roger Zelazny</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">34 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?53528">The Movie People</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?152">Robert Bloch</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">44 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?97404">A Final Sceptre, a Lasting Crown</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?194">Ray Bradbury</a> (variant of <a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?64879" style="font-style: italic;">Henry the Ninth</a>)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">51 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?825517">Cartoon: "My usual luck."</a> • interior artwork by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1560">Gahan Wilson</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">52 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?117087">Worlds in Confusion</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?19317">Asimov's Essays: <i>F&SF</i></a>] • essay by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?5">Isaac Asimov</a> [<i>dealing with Velikovsky's </i>Worlds in Collision <i>and similar pseudo-science. TM]</i></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">61 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2805916">Coming Next Month—Another Anniversary Issue! (<i>F&SF</i>, October 1969)</a> • essay by uncredited</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">62 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?53525">The Soft Predicament</a> • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?131">Brian W. Aldiss</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">87 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?45046">The Man Who Learned Loving</a> • (1969) • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?56">Theodore Sturgeon</a> <i>[whose preferred title might've been "Brownshoes", as it appeared in the 5/69 issue of</i> Playboy <i>imitator </i>Adam <i>and in the 1971 collection</i> Sturgeon is Alive and Well...<i>TM]</i></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>96 • </i><a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?825518"><i>Books: The Dark Corner [Wilson's recurring review column devoted to horror fiction and related matter-TM]</i> (<i>F&SF,</i> October 1969)</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?20077">Books (<i>F&SF</i>)</a>] • essay by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1560">Gahan Wilson</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">97 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?825519">Review</a>: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?825510"><i>The Pedestal</i></a> by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?107625">George Lanning</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1560">Gahan Wilson</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">97 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?825520">Review</a><i>: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?825511">Night of the Vampire</a></i> by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?107626">Raymond Giles</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1560">Gahan Wilson</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">97 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?825521">Review</a>: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?307541"><i>A Stir of Echoes</i></a> by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?531">Richard Matheson</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1560">Gahan Wilson</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">97 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?825522">Review</a>: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?825512"><i>A Walk with the Beast</i></a> by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?107627">Charles M. Collins</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1560">Gahan Wilson</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">97 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?825523">Review</a>: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?22325"><i>Progeny of the Adder</i></a> by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?4367">Leslie H. Whitten</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1560">Gahan Wilson</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">98 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?825524">Review</a>: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?825513"><i>Moon of the Wolf</i></a> by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?4367">Leslie H. Whitten</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1560">Gahan Wilson</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">98 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?825525">Review</a>: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?7925"><i>A Fine and Private Place</i></a> by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1039">Peter S. Beagle</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1560">Gahan Wilson</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">98 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?825526">Review</a>: <i><a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?7924">The Last Unicorn</a> </i>by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1039">Peter S. Beagle</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1560">Gahan Wilson</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">98 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?825527">Review</a>: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?35870"><i>Hauntings and Horrors, Ten Grisly Tales</i></a> edited by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?10852">Alden H. Norton</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1560">Gahan Wilson</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">100 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?53526">The Electric Ant</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?23">Philip K. Dick</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">116 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?53529">Get a Horse!</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?304">Svetz</a>] • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?42">Larry Niven</a> (variant of "<a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?62976">The Flight of the Horse</a>")</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>back cover </span>• Editorial/house ad • </span><a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1090" style="font-size: large;">Edward L. Ferman</a></li></ul><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Fantastic</b></i>, August 1972<br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> (<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?8935">View All Issues</a>) (<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/seriesgrid.cgi?8935">View Issue Grid</a>)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Editor:</b> <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1431">Ted White</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Date:</b> 1972-08-00</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Publisher:</b> <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?3393">Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc.</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Price:</b> <div class="tooltip tooltipright" style="display: inline; position: relative;">$0.60<span class="tooltiptext tooltipnarrow tooltipright" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid black; left: 1126.73px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 3px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; visibility: hidden; width: 150px; z-index: 1;"></span></div></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Pages:</b> 132</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Format:</b> <div class="tooltip tooltipright" style="display: inline; position: relative;">digest</div></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Cover:</b> <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?148383"><i>Fantastic</i>, August 1972</a> by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2264">Jeff Jones</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">4 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?125593">Editorial (<i>Fantastic</i>, August 1972)</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?22785">Editorial (<i>Fantastic</i>)</a>] • essay by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1431">Ted White</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">6 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?113526">The Forges of Nainland Are Cold (Part 1 of 2)</a> • serial by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?501">Avram Davidson</a> (combined with another earlier story for book publication as <a class="italic" dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?11982" style="font-style: italic;">Ursus of Ultima Thule</a> 1973)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">7 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?768801">The Forges of Nainland Are Cold (Part 1 of 2)</a> • interior artwork by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2183">Michael Kaluta</a> [as by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?102849">Mike Kaluta</a>]</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">34 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?68686">The Witch of the Mists</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?397">Conan</a>] • novelette by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?353">Lin Carter</a> <b>and</b> <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?18">L. Sprague de Camp</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">34 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1923858">The Witch of the Mists</a> • interior artwork by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?220503">Roland</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">42 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1923859">The Witch of the Mists [2]</a> • interior artwork by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?220503">Roland</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">51 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1923860">The Witch of the Mists [3]</a> • interior artwork by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?220503">Roland</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">58 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?46079">Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?57">James Tiptree, Jr.</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">59 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?768805">Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket</a> • interior artwork by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?35524">Joe Staton</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">72 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?81026">Allowances</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?534">Barry N. Malzberg</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">73 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?768809">Allowances</a> • interior artwork by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?103037">Billy Graham</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">79 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?81027">The Brink</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?354">Bob Shaw</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">82 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?191428">Agony and Remorse on Rhesus IX</a> • short story by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?561">Richard A. Lupoff</a> [as by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?14036">Ova Hamlet</a>]</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">83 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?768813">Agony and Remorse on Rhesus IX</a> • interior artwork by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?27041">Dave Cockrum</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">89 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?125592">SF in Dimension: Mastery of Space and Time (1926-1935)</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?23485">Science Fiction in Dimension</a>] • essay by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?44">Alexei Panshin</a> <b>and</b> <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?45">Cory Panshin</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">102 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?125591">Fantasy Books (<i>Fantastic</i>, August 1972)</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?23389">Fantasy Books (<i>Fantastic</i>)</a>] • essay by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?38">Fritz Leiber</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">102 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?768821">Review</a>: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2821"><i>I Will Fear No Evil</i></a> by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?29">Robert A. Heinlein</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?38">Fritz Leiber</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">105 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?768825">Review</a>: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?33801"><i>New Worlds for Old</i></a> edited, with commentary, by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?353">Lin Carter</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?38">Fritz Leiber</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">108 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?768829">Review</a>: <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?909757"><i>Songs and Sonnets Atlantean</i></a> by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?22771">Donald S. Fryer</a> • review by <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?38">Fritz Leiber</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">115 • <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?768817">... According to You (<i>Fantastic</i>, August 1972)</a> • [<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?23417">According to You (<i>Fantastic</i>)</a>] • letter column conducted by </span><a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1431" style="font-size: large;">Ted White</a></li><li><i><span style="font-size: medium;">this issue <a href="https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_v21n06_1972-08/mode/1up">can be read here</a>.</span></i></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7M-uEJkv30xii3cCI8WIRNV3c40ymaf9xrj-_rdFJh7mIUPxdjGqjaghdSe5wamKIr2q_kVDdZ6BFYk8l4LXvQjPyJYVxRUUm31zt-nERi6uEX-JgVFNs1YstwZ1Kt-tUhXqmP6qiAhywIGaJpx9bpLD4RaCIenLOcpKS8DnCUNYWxz-iGJI01GXtoi-S/s573/Fantastic_v21n06_1972-08_0000.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="415" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7M-uEJkv30xii3cCI8WIRNV3c40ymaf9xrj-_rdFJh7mIUPxdjGqjaghdSe5wamKIr2q_kVDdZ6BFYk8l4LXvQjPyJYVxRUUm31zt-nERi6uEX-JgVFNs1YstwZ1Kt-tUhXqmP6qiAhywIGaJpx9bpLD4RaCIenLOcpKS8DnCUNYWxz-iGJI01GXtoi-S/w464-h640/Fantastic_v21n06_1972-08_0000.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Perhaps unsurprisingly for 20th Anniversary issues of fantasy/sf magazines, or for any gathering of fiction, considerations of time (and, often, loss) loom large in the stories in these two issues. Slightly odd that two magazines which have been, at times at least in their previous histories, famous as homes for women writers in fantastica should produce "all-stag" anniversary celebration issues, albeit in the case of <i>Fantastic</i>, Alice (at conventions, going by nickname "Racoona") Sheldon was still hiding behind the "James Tiptree, Jr." pseudonym, and cover artist Jeff Jones was eventually to transition to womanhood and take on the name </b></span><a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?225572" style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jeffrey Catherine Jones</span></b></a> <span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>in 1998; "Ova Hamlet" as the pseudonym Richard Lupoff used for his parody stories for <i>Fantastic</i>, mostly, was a Very open non-secret (part of the gag was that Lupoff was serving as interlocutor for the eccentric "Hamlet"). </b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>That said, these are impressive issues, helping to kick off good decades artistically for both magazines, and eventually financially for <i>F&SF</i>, at least.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The best stories in either issue are, I'd say at this hour, Robert Bloch's time-travel (of a sort) and defini</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;">tely af</b><b style="font-family: georgia;">terlife</b><b style="font-family: georgia;"> fantasy "The Movie People", which incorporates his love for film and his experiences as both youthful film fan and eventual professional screenwriter, and Tiptree's "Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket", very much a time-travel story and yet also deeply encoding some of her lived experience as a young debutante (and, to a much lesser extent, her later life as an OSS/CIA staffer). I haven't yet read the Conan pastiche by de Camp and Carter, nor this part of the eventual <i>Ursus of Ultima Thule</i> by Avram Davidson, but the introduction to the first part of the serial, giving some of the events in the previous segment published as a standalone story in the sf magazine <i>Worlds of If</i>, is indicative of Davidson in one of his favorite modes, writing about the origins of the mythology he's mining for the story, and the sort of thing he eventually would write at length in the essays collected as <i>Adventures in Unhistory</i>...which is highly recommended.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Barry Malzberg, the editor of <i>Fantastic</i> and stablemate <i>Amazing </i>before White, as well as contributor to this issue, would later collect the Tiptree story in <a href="The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time,">his 2003 anthology</a> </b></span><a dir="ltr" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?932819" style="background-color: white;"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time</span></i></b></a><b>,<span style="font-family: courier;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">as well as i</span></b><b style="font-family: georgia;">t</b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> being first collected in Sheldon/Tiptree's first, widely-hailed collection, <i>Ten Thousand Light Years from Home</i>. <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?53528">Bloch's "The Movie People"</a> has also been widely collected, in his <i>The Best of Robert Bloch</i> and many other volumes, in translation as well as the original.</span></b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Please see <a href="https://pattinase.blogspot.com/2023/10/happy-birthday-phil-79th.html">Patti Abbott's blog </a>for more complete considerations of their objects of discussion and review, and a fine new poem she's composed commemorating the birthday of her late husband, the poli</span></b><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">t</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ical science professor and historian<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Abbott_(academic)"> Philip Abbott</a> (whose favorite short story was E. M. Forster's seminal sf story, "The Machine Stops")...</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Cxl6Wg1894N_ZcGPUuwUsT-IgPtzYTvf6I05wQdvEfg_d0IwD7J05U_klw2qka77bmvdlwGe0B4C6VIpageyxcVCCS28_Cd4ZH3awl0_SaXgBoepq8yqw7FM_PD2ruBCtg1LD93GwNQowQfd21bSp0JUeiMTQmMrUVD99UI1SNxw_wwVR7g1buU58lE1/s300/short%20story%20wed%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Cxl6Wg1894N_ZcGPUuwUsT-IgPtzYTvf6I05wQdvEfg_d0IwD7J05U_klw2qka77bmvdlwGe0B4C6VIpageyxcVCCS28_Cd4ZH3awl0_SaXgBoepq8yqw7FM_PD2ruBCtg1LD93GwNQowQfd21bSp0JUeiMTQmMrUVD99UI1SNxw_wwVR7g1buU58lE1/w640-h358/short%20story%20wed%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></b></div><b><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><p></p>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-64541796214004375482023-10-05T02:02:00.006-04:002023-10-07T01:03:58.798-04:00SSW/P: New MacArthur Fellow Manuel Muñoz quotes lines from Rita Dove's poem "Fantasy and Science Fiction" (about her early reading of THE MAGAZINE OF F&SF and other things) as epigraph for his story collection THE CONSEQUENCES... <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Renee</span></b> </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: bolder; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shea</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;">: The epigraph to this collection is five lines from a poem, “Fantasy and Science Fiction,” by Rita Dove, but I’m not sure how they speak to you about what you’re doing in these stories.</span></span></p><span class="im" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #500050;"><div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; margin: 0px 0in 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Manuel Muñoz</span>: It’s a nod to how I have received stories from my parents, but, I, in turn, have not really shared any of my own. It’s well understood in my family that I’m out, but we don’t talk about it. All of the personal stories of mine about love or rejection or partnership aren’t shared or even asked about. That’s not what the Dove poem is actually about, but the lines struck me: the privacy and intimacy of encountering or experiencing story: “shutting a book . . . you can walk off the back porch / and into the sea—though it’s not the sort of story / you’d tell your mother."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0in 1em; padding: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWzMYBMtT7_ACK89p7KUjXt5uibuXLw1UUhTm9x3Yel-VyofskTBIg2BMALbwZTyiQgHt-26HaSx4nSwfVeAjncXGMg_dXO2PgKjEBvvJM1hFvbdCANQjNrewCIfZro2CMrx-TE06iFHXrHmL_wIhxL8L-uWyC-fVXQP57YP_2djFST6bZlaHNIQOl4yrh" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1054" data-original-width="703" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWzMYBMtT7_ACK89p7KUjXt5uibuXLw1UUhTm9x3Yel-VyofskTBIg2BMALbwZTyiQgHt-26HaSx4nSwfVeAjncXGMg_dXO2PgKjEBvvJM1hFvbdCANQjNrewCIfZro2CMrx-TE06iFHXrHmL_wIhxL8L-uWyC-fVXQP57YP_2djFST6bZlaHNIQOl4yrh=w267-h400" width="267" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">from: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/interviews/consequences-story-conversation-manuel-munoz-renee-h-shea&source=gmail&ust=1696558033362000&usg=AOvVaw3in580cWtP-KsEiwkGaGfK" href="https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/interviews/consequences-story-conversation-manuel-munoz-renee-h-shea" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/<wbr></wbr>interviews/consequences-story-<wbr></wbr>conversation-manuel-munoz-<wbr></wbr>renee-h-shea</a></span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; margin: 0px 0in 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">meanwhile: </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; margin: 0px 0in 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rita Dove:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; margin: 0px 0in 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">from <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.wsfcs.k12.nc.us/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid%3D93509%26dataid%3D158691%26FileName%3DFor%2520the%2520Love%2520of%2520Books%2520by%2520Rita%2520Dove.doc&source=gmail&ust=1696558033362000&usg=AOvVaw0Bku4fDA9zT2Jx7hX75H1-" href="https://www.wsfcs.k12.nc.us/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=93509&dataid=158691&FileName=For%20the%20Love%20of%20Books%20by%20Rita%20Dove.doc" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.wsfcs.k12.nc.<wbr></wbr>us/site/handlers/filedownload.<wbr></wbr>ashx?moduleinstanceid=93509&<wbr></wbr>dataid=158691&FileName=For%<wbr></wbr>20the%20Love%20of%20Books%<wbr></wbr>20by%20Rita%20Dove.doc</a></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 14.4pt; margin: 1.5pt 0in 5pt 7.5pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium;">At the same time, my brother, two years my senior, had become a science fiction buff, so I’d read his <i>Analog</i> and <i>Fantasy</i> <i>and Science Fiction</i> magazines after he was finished with them. One story particularly fascinated me: A retarded boy in a small town begins building a sculpture in his backyard, using old and discarded materials—coke bottles, scrap iron, string, and bottle caps. Everyone laughs at him, but he continues building. Then one day he disappears. And when the neighbors investigate, they discover that the sculpture has been dragged onto the back porch and that the screen door is open. Somehow the narrator of the story figures out how to switch on the sculpture: The back door frame begins to glow, and when he steps through it, he’s in an alternate universe, a town the mirror image of his own—even down to the colors, with green roses and an orange sky. And he walks through this town until he comes to the main square, where there is a statue erected to—who else?—the village idiot.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; margin: 0px 0in 1em; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 14.4pt; margin: 1.5pt 0in 5pt 7.5pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium;">I loved this story, the idea that the dreamy, mild, scatter-brained boy of one world could be the hero of another. And in a way, I identified with that village idiot because in real life I was painfully shy and awkward; the place where I felt most alive was between the pages of a book.</span></p></div></span><div class="gmail_quote" style="background-color: white;"><span class="im"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Dove's poem first published in <a href="https://www.pshares.org/issues/spring-1987"><i>Ploughshares</i>, Spring 1987</a>, </span><span>and included in her</span> <span><i>Collected Poems 1974–2004</i> (Norton)</span> and...</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2N3PUIirmkET4g1ZykfPpod--PiMJdVCmC_gCZWs5ouihuq-qHlYRi6-FkfEVx5pwqxTjbY8Jk1h6y2ocx01OfyzNTjdscLEsZeK54B5X5OWk3lLUfKeSm0xrJD7Hm3RlMNBYFIQoxSln501QJy1c6fePG4JnVD05IOIxs3vZLAeXDAhnJk8gMrIGz6id" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2N3PUIirmkET4g1ZykfPpod--PiMJdVCmC_gCZWs5ouihuq-qHlYRi6-FkfEVx5pwqxTjbY8Jk1h6y2ocx01OfyzNTjdscLEsZeK54B5X5OWk3lLUfKeSm0xrJD7Hm3RlMNBYFIQoxSln501QJy1c6fePG4JnVD05IOIxs3vZLAeXDAhnJk8gMrIGz6id=w265-h400" width="265" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in <i>Grace No</i></span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">t</span><i style="font-size: large;">es...</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvyucxAMhceX8mgD4I4wPh3mEdN0RSpXzQSQVCjFARIiP9gFU8YD6gcmH3ENzblKvyPLcBwlwnQaX1QAHqFw_6W6YPoP5rR4lIDsjWRahe9LGpSszmdTQWVPDLSI6hkNwOJuq2C-VB468otJeHyIJ9bA-MJUXqdVy2EDrXwZmedSFkGXeiVp7vNXNsyts8/s475/grace%20n%20dove.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="317" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvyucxAMhceX8mgD4I4wPh3mEdN0RSpXzQSQVCjFARIiP9gFU8YD6gcmH3ENzblKvyPLcBwlwnQaX1QAHqFw_6W6YPoP5rR4lIDsjWRahe9LGpSszmdTQWVPDLSI6hkNwOJuq2C-VB468otJeHyIJ9bA-MJUXqdVy2EDrXwZmedSFkGXeiVp7vNXNsyts8/w268-h400/grace%20n%20dove.jpeg" width="268" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="a" style="color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and c</span></a><a href="https://archive.org/details/gracenotes00rita/page/15/mode/1up" style="color: #222222; text-align: left;">an be read here.</a></div></div></i></span></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/">2023 MacArthur Fellows (and earlier colleagues)</a></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(h/<span>t </span><span>to Paul Di Filippo for </span><span>the IA ci</span><span>ta</span><span>tion)</span></span></div></span></div>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-85270240434150934222023-09-14T17:53:00.003-04:002023-09-14T17:57:32.136-04:00A MYSTERY, CRIME & NOIR NOTEBOOK by Gary Lovisi (Stark House 2023/forthcoming in November)<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>A collection of short essays from <i>Paperback Parade</i> editor/publisher Gary Lovisi, a companion to his 2022 <i>A Sherlock Holmes Notebook</i>, also from <a href="http://starkhousepress.com/lovisi.php">Stark House, in their Reference line</a>. Most of the individual entries run about three pages or so, and when it gets to collecting, Lovisi's lifelong passion, he can get expansive and go for six or more...illustrated with black and white images of book covers and similar items of interest (looking online, or to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@garylovisi357">his video presentations on YouTube</a>, to get the full-color experience won't be too trying). </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://starkhousepress.com/recent.php">This book upon receipt</a> has already proved useful to me, as Steve Oerkfitz and I were sharing our frustration the other day with the ending of the famous French film adaptation of <i>The Wages of Fear</i>--a brilliant film till that point--which attempts profundity by basically tossing off much of what made the film till that point riveting, almost to the point of making an existential joke of it...Steve noted that this irked him sufficiently that he preferred the later US adaptation <i>Sorcerer</i>. One thing I'd never had the wit to do was check the source novel of both films, by "Georges Anaud" (Henri Girard)--not the easiest of tasks, given it apparently hasn't been reprinted in an Anglophone translation since the 1950s, but Gary has a(t least a) copy, and describes the ending (which is much more a furtherance of the terms of the narrative than the <i>Wages</i> film chooses to be), and thus an intellectual itch is scratched...one of the best results in consulting a reference work. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Essays are reprinted from a wide array of sources, including <i>Paperback Parade</i> and <i>The Armchair Detective</i> and Ed Gorman and Lee Server's <i>The Big Book of Noir</i>, along with others a bit less likely, but no less engaged and enthusiastic. You are likely to find it a fine addition to your reference shelf.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1S2Ej-UFQRR6q3mG6Bl53wrOrnNzU1RDXeINE2ADFL53FG5UxHPEcZB58IoXMzum4USnCKOrwXPJfjWGdLmCypBV_oyfCWUSW12_b_qNkXA7ta0e2vwT_B2YE0MfvNtBE9hihmyLCi1mwyj7LY6f-9aEzkJ2Ezo9gAaykJX9X9ExJCCAe_sQ4RosFpk4O/s1500/nnb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="971" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1S2Ej-UFQRR6q3mG6Bl53wrOrnNzU1RDXeINE2ADFL53FG5UxHPEcZB58IoXMzum4USnCKOrwXPJfjWGdLmCypBV_oyfCWUSW12_b_qNkXA7ta0e2vwT_B2YE0MfvNtBE9hihmyLCi1mwyj7LY6f-9aEzkJ2Ezo9gAaykJX9X9ExJCCAe_sQ4RosFpk4O/w414-h640/nnb.jpg" width="414" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>and currently available:</b></i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1HQFYYzQjNnNExp0ACrNTdzLYrzFplrV6OKvodZF0v0r7NjCgq0pW-rFn_HoWQBlXvvK1XPtQX9dA7og0qctkKO1tZSTeakojYpzjD835eunVN3FLq9BskhrQf18EWW828Mf_k0UU2vLkq1aUN_WAdM-Jhj2rDeAQtVeyeCyI2q7GE_tyq1FguTCrVH6y/s600/a-sherlock-holmes-notebook-a-cornucopia-of-sherlockania-taschenbuch-gary-lovisi-englisch.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="388" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1HQFYYzQjNnNExp0ACrNTdzLYrzFplrV6OKvodZF0v0r7NjCgq0pW-rFn_HoWQBlXvvK1XPtQX9dA7og0qctkKO1tZSTeakojYpzjD835eunVN3FLq9BskhrQf18EWW828Mf_k0UU2vLkq1aUN_WAdM-Jhj2rDeAQtVeyeCyI2q7GE_tyq1FguTCrVH6y/w259-h400/a-sherlock-holmes-notebook-a-cornucopia-of-sherlockania-taschenbuch-gary-lovisi-englisch.jpeg" width="259" /></a></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hJ9SarKEYOI" width="480" youtube-src-id="hJ9SarKEYOI"></iframe></i></span></span></div><p></p><p></p>Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com5