This week's books, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from)--certainly, this week we have a few not at all forgotten titles. Patti Abbott will host again in two weeks and recommends Alessandra Stanley on Alistair MacLean; we have an unusual degree of contributors and former contributors having their own books reviewed this week...and this week is of course dedicated to the memory of Allen Billy aka Bill Crider, Rest in Glory.
Yvette Banek: They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
Bernadette: The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown by Vaseem Khan
Les Blatt: Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert
Elgin Bleecker: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, March 1963, edited by Cele Goldsmith
Ben Boulden: Brothers by Ed Gorman and Richard Chizmar
Brian Busby: The Land of Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair Ron Scheer on Bertrand Sinclair
Martin Edwards: The Woman in the Sea by Shelley Smith
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC war comics, February 1972
Barry Ergang (hosted by Kevin Tipple): Pattern for Panic by Richard S. Prather
Will Errickson: Lovers Living, Lovers Dead by Richard Lortz
Curtis Evans: Untimely Guest by "Marian Babson" (Ruth Marian Stenstreem)
Paul Fraser: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July-August 2017, edited by C. Coleman Finlay
Barry Gardner: Coyote Wind by Peter Bowen
John Grant: Letter of Intent by Ursula Curtiss; The Scent of Blood by Raymond Miller
Bev Hankins: Avalanche by Kay Boyle
Don Herron: "The Flitcraft Parable" by Dashiell Hammett
Rich Horton: Amos Judd by J. A. Mitchell
Jerry House: The Descent of the Sun by F. W. Bain
Tracy K: The Last Billable Hours by Susan Wolfe
Kate: Third Party Risk by Nicolas Bentley
Colman Keane: "Keller the Dogkiller" by Lawrence Block
George Kelley: Oh, For the Life of a Writer's Wife by Elizabeth Brown
Joe Kenney: The Baroness #2: Diamonds are for Dying by "Peter Kenyon"
Margot Kinberg: The Anderson Tapes by Lawrence Sanders
Rob Kitchin: The End of the World in Breslau by Marek Krajewski (translated by Danusia Stok)
D. F. Lewis: The Egotist by Philip Fracassi
Evan Lewis: Shiloh by James Reasoner
Steve Lewis: "The Crawling Horror" by Thorp McClusky; Please Pass the Guilt by Rex Stout
Todd Mason: The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band by Michelle Cruz Gonzales
James Nicoll: Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord
John F. Norris: Clay by David Almond
John O'Neill: The Snail on the Slope by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (translated by Alan Meyers)
Matt Paust: Of All Sad Words by Bill Crider
J. Kingston Pierce: Bill Crider
James Reasoner: Oh, For the Life of a Writer's Wife by Elizabeth Brown
Gerard Saylor: A Little More Free by John McFetridge; Bleed for Me by Michael Robotham
Steven H. Silver: "Rings Around the Moon" by Jack Dann; "A Gift from the Culture" by Iain M. Banks
Victoria Silverwolf: Worlds of Tomorrow Science Fiction, April 1963, edited by Frederik Pohl
Kerrie Smith: The Stranger by Melanie Raabe
"TomCat": "A Stretch of the Imagination" by Randall Garrett
David Vineyard: Night Film by Marisha Pessl (Juri Nummelin on the book)
Yvette Banek: They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
Bernadette: The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown by Vaseem Khan
Les Blatt: Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert
Elgin Bleecker: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, March 1963, edited by Cele Goldsmith
Ben Boulden: Brothers by Ed Gorman and Richard Chizmar
Brian Busby: The Land of Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair Ron Scheer on Bertrand Sinclair
Martin Edwards: The Woman in the Sea by Shelley Smith
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC war comics, February 1972
Barry Ergang (hosted by Kevin Tipple): Pattern for Panic by Richard S. Prather
Will Errickson: Lovers Living, Lovers Dead by Richard Lortz
Curtis Evans: Untimely Guest by "Marian Babson" (Ruth Marian Stenstreem)
Paul Fraser: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July-August 2017, edited by C. Coleman Finlay
Barry Gardner: Coyote Wind by Peter Bowen
John Grant: Letter of Intent by Ursula Curtiss; The Scent of Blood by Raymond Miller
Bev Hankins: Avalanche by Kay Boyle
Don Herron: "The Flitcraft Parable" by Dashiell Hammett
Rich Horton: Amos Judd by J. A. Mitchell
Jerry House: The Descent of the Sun by F. W. Bain
Tracy K: The Last Billable Hours by Susan Wolfe
Kate: Third Party Risk by Nicolas Bentley
Colman Keane: "Keller the Dogkiller" by Lawrence Block
George Kelley: Oh, For the Life of a Writer's Wife by Elizabeth Brown
Joe Kenney: The Baroness #2: Diamonds are for Dying by "Peter Kenyon"
Margot Kinberg: The Anderson Tapes by Lawrence Sanders
Rob Kitchin: The End of the World in Breslau by Marek Krajewski (translated by Danusia Stok)
D. F. Lewis: The Egotist by Philip Fracassi
Evan Lewis: Shiloh by James Reasoner
Steve Lewis: "The Crawling Horror" by Thorp McClusky; Please Pass the Guilt by Rex Stout
Todd Mason: The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band by Michelle Cruz Gonzales
James Nicoll: Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord
John F. Norris: Clay by David Almond
John O'Neill: The Snail on the Slope by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (translated by Alan Meyers)
Matt Paust: Of All Sad Words by Bill Crider
J. Kingston Pierce: Bill Crider
James Reasoner: Oh, For the Life of a Writer's Wife by Elizabeth Brown
Gerard Saylor: A Little More Free by John McFetridge; Bleed for Me by Michael Robotham
Steven H. Silver: "Rings Around the Moon" by Jack Dann; "A Gift from the Culture" by Iain M. Banks
Victoria Silverwolf: Worlds of Tomorrow Science Fiction, April 1963, edited by Frederik Pohl
Kerrie Smith: The Stranger by Melanie Raabe
"TomCat": "A Stretch of the Imagination" by Randall Garrett
David Vineyard: Night Film by Marisha Pessl (Juri Nummelin on the book)
10 comments:
Great cover for Of All Sad Words. Wish I'd have found it first!
Kind of more pleasant than compelling, but the other covers make it look good, don't they?
Thanks for putting this all together.
A wholesome, moonshine-making, flying-saucer-visiting Texas town.
Todd – Thanks for doing the FFB. I changed the link in my post so folks can find this week’s list.
Wow"! That's an impressive list of links and such great variety too!
I've discovered many new sites to explore. Thanks for taking the time to put this together.
Too bad Don Herron has no comment feature on his post today about Hammett's "Flitcraft Parable." I wanted to say how astonishing I found it. ;)
Thanks for collecting the links and thanks for including mine.
Thank you folks for the kind words and the contributions. This Friday should be a bit more prompt, as less sudden necessity and previously scheduled activity will be involved.
Matt, Don Herron might not have a comment section on his blog, but he does invite commentary via email: dashdude@donherron.com
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