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, most weeks we have a few not at all forgotten titles. Founder Patti Abbott is attending to other business, and I will be taking up the list regularly for at least a while (very glad to see an FFB entry from her this week)...if I've missed your review or someone else's, please let me know in comments...
Patti Abbott: Rogue Males: Conversations and Confrontations About the Writing Life interviews by Craig McDonald
Elizabeth Bear: Eight classic fantasy and sf novels of the 1970s: by Phyllis Eisenstein, Diane Duane, Phyllis Ann Karr, Jo Clayton, Joy Chant, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Suzy McKee Charnas, Vonda McIntyre
Paul Bishop: the Webb Carrick series by Bill Knox
Les Blatt: Frequent Hearses (aka Sudden Vengeance) by Edmund Crispin
Elgin Bleecker: They Don't Dance Much by James Ross
John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, February 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Ben Boulden: "A Real Nice Guy" by William F. Nolan, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, April 1980, edited by Charles Fritch
Brian Busby: 10 Years of the Dusty Bookcase blog
Martin Edwards: The Strange Case of Harriet Hall by "Moray Dalton" (Katherine Dalton Renoir)
Peter Enfantino: Atlas (pre-Marvel) Horror Comics January 1952
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC War Comics, June 1974
Barry Ergang: God Save the Mark by Donald Westlake (hosted by Kevin Tipple)
Will Errickson: Shadows 4, edited by Charles Grant; Richard Matheson, interviewed by Douglas Winter, Faces of Fear
Curtis Evans: The Capital Murder by "James Z. Alner" (James Alner Tobey)
Paul Fraser: Astounding Science-Fiction, June 1943, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.; Future Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1943, edited by Robert W. Lowndes (the W squad)
John Grant: Blue Night by Simone Buchholz (translated by Rachel Ward); Tequila Blue by Rolo Diez (translated by Nick Caistor)
Aubrey Hamilton: The Red Castle Women by Margaret Widdemer
Rich Horton: Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem; Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks; stories of David D. Levine; Move Under Ground and stories of Nick Mamatas; The Best of Xero edited by Pat and Dick Lupoff
Jerry House: The Barker, #8, Summer 1948
Kate Jackson: Cat and Mouse by Christianna Brand; There's Trouble Brewing by "Nicholas Blake" (Cecil Day-Lewis)
Nick Jones: Six from Sirius by Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy
Tracy K: The Unsuspected by Charlotte Armstrong
Colman Keane: Dispatches from the Cold and Fade to Clear by Leonard Chang
George Kelley: The Great SF Stories #6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
Joe Kenney: The Scene by "Mike Jahn" (Joseph Michael Jahn)
Margot Kinberg: The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto (translated by Frank Wynne)
Rob Kitchin: Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
B. V. Lawson: Death Watch by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Evan Lewis: Los Tejanos by Jack Jackson; Frank Frazetta Happy Comics art
Steve Lewis: Stamped for Death by Emmett McDowell; Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Second Annual Edition edited by Lester Del Rey; Winner Take All by James McKimmey; "The Giving Plague" by David Brin, Interzone, Spring 1988, edited by David Pringle and Simon Oursley
Jess Nevins: 20th Century African-American Horror Fiction
John F. Norris: The Silent Murders by "Neil Gordon" (Archibald Gordon Macdonnell)
Juri Nummelin: Missing by Sam Hawken
John O'Neill: The Passing of the Dragons by Keith Roberts
Matt Paust: Miami Blues by Charles Willeford
James Reasoner: The Galaxy Raiders by William P. McGivern
Richard Robinson: The Kelloggs, The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel
Gerard Saylor: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Scott: A Step Out of Time by Betty Askwith
Victoria Silverwolf: Worlds of Tomorrow, April 1964, edited by Frederik Pohl; Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, January 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Kerrie Smith: As the Crow Flies by Damien Boyd
Kevin Tipple: A Time to Scatter Stones by Lawrence Block
"TomCat": The Kindaichi Case Files: The Legendary Vampire Murders by Saimura Amagi et al.
Danielle Torres: Stillmeadow Calendar by Gladys Tabor
David Vineyard: Levkas Man by Hammond Innes; "The Blue Sweetheart" by David Goodis, Manhunt, April 1953, edited by Scott Meredith
Lisa Yaszek: "The Jest" by Dorothy Parker
Patti Abbott: Rogue Males: Conversations and Confrontations About the Writing Life interviews by Craig McDonald
Elizabeth Bear: Eight classic fantasy and sf novels of the 1970s: by Phyllis Eisenstein, Diane Duane, Phyllis Ann Karr, Jo Clayton, Joy Chant, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Suzy McKee Charnas, Vonda McIntyre
Paul Bishop: the Webb Carrick series by Bill Knox
Les Blatt: Frequent Hearses (aka Sudden Vengeance) by Edmund Crispin
Elgin Bleecker: They Don't Dance Much by James Ross
John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, February 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Ben Boulden: "A Real Nice Guy" by William F. Nolan, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, April 1980, edited by Charles Fritch
Brian Busby: 10 Years of the Dusty Bookcase blog
Martin Edwards: The Strange Case of Harriet Hall by "Moray Dalton" (Katherine Dalton Renoir)
Peter Enfantino: Atlas (pre-Marvel) Horror Comics January 1952
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC War Comics, June 1974
Barry Ergang: God Save the Mark by Donald Westlake (hosted by Kevin Tipple)
Will Errickson: Shadows 4, edited by Charles Grant; Richard Matheson, interviewed by Douglas Winter, Faces of Fear
Curtis Evans: The Capital Murder by "James Z. Alner" (James Alner Tobey)
Paul Fraser: Astounding Science-Fiction, June 1943, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.; Future Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1943, edited by Robert W. Lowndes (the W squad)
John Grant: Blue Night by Simone Buchholz (translated by Rachel Ward); Tequila Blue by Rolo Diez (translated by Nick Caistor)
Aubrey Hamilton: The Red Castle Women by Margaret Widdemer
Rich Horton: Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem; Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks; stories of David D. Levine; Move Under Ground and stories of Nick Mamatas; The Best of Xero edited by Pat and Dick Lupoff
Jerry House: The Barker, #8, Summer 1948
Kate Jackson: Cat and Mouse by Christianna Brand; There's Trouble Brewing by "Nicholas Blake" (Cecil Day-Lewis)
Nick Jones: Six from Sirius by Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy
Tracy K: The Unsuspected by Charlotte Armstrong
Colman Keane: Dispatches from the Cold and Fade to Clear by Leonard Chang
George Kelley: The Great SF Stories #6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
Joe Kenney: The Scene by "Mike Jahn" (Joseph Michael Jahn)
Margot Kinberg: The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto (translated by Frank Wynne)
Rob Kitchin: Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
B. V. Lawson: Death Watch by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Evan Lewis: Los Tejanos by Jack Jackson; Frank Frazetta Happy Comics art
Steve Lewis: Stamped for Death by Emmett McDowell; Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Second Annual Edition edited by Lester Del Rey; Winner Take All by James McKimmey; "The Giving Plague" by David Brin, Interzone, Spring 1988, edited by David Pringle and Simon Oursley
Jess Nevins: 20th Century African-American Horror Fiction
John F. Norris: The Silent Murders by "Neil Gordon" (Archibald Gordon Macdonnell)
Juri Nummelin: Missing by Sam Hawken
John O'Neill: The Passing of the Dragons by Keith Roberts
Matt Paust: Miami Blues by Charles Willeford
James Reasoner: The Galaxy Raiders by William P. McGivern
Richard Robinson: The Kelloggs, The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel
Scott: A Step Out of Time by Betty Askwith
Victoria Silverwolf: Worlds of Tomorrow, April 1964, edited by Frederik Pohl; Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, January 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Kerrie Smith: As the Crow Flies by Damien Boyd
Kevin Tipple: A Time to Scatter Stones by Lawrence Block
"TomCat": The Kindaichi Case Files: The Legendary Vampire Murders by Saimura Amagi et al.
Danielle Torres: Stillmeadow Calendar by Gladys Tabor
David Vineyard: Levkas Man by Hammond Innes; "The Blue Sweetheart" by David Goodis, Manhunt, April 1953, edited by Scott Meredith
Lisa Yaszek: "The Jest" by Dorothy Parker
Thanks, Todd!
ReplyDeleteYou're quite welcome, Jack. You are reminding me of WEIRD WAR TALES of my childhood, warts and ragged skulls and all. And my other favorite mainline comic was the Atlas/Timely reprint horror anthology from Marvel in the same years, TOMB OF DARKNESS.
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