This week's books and more, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from); certainly, most weeks we have a few not at all forgotten titles...if I've missed your review or someone else's, please let me know in comments...as we face small trials (Facebook for a day was removing all the links to my blog) or much larger ones (and sparing a thought for former FFB contributor Richard Wheeler, who died in February, and the people killed and terrorized in the events in Christchurch, New Zealand, over the last day).
Patricia Abbott: Sleep While I Sing by L. R. Wright; What It Might Feel Like to Hope by Dorene O'Brien
Paul Bishop: the Gunships series by "Jack Hamilton Teed" (Christopher Lowder)
Les Blatt: Three Witnesses by Rex Stout
John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, April 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Ben Boulden: Snowbound by Richard S. Wheeler; Things to Come, January/February 1955, the catalog of the (Doubleday) Science Fiction Book Club
Brian Busby: The Bright Path to Adventure by Gordon Sinclair
Martin Edwards: Arrogant Alibi by C. Daly King
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: Warren Comics (Creepy and Blazing Combat), October to December 1965, edited by Archie Goodwin
Will Errickson: The Manitou by Graham Masterton
José Ignacio Escribano: Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran
Curtis Evans: Swing, Brother, Swing by Ngaio Marsh
Paul Fraser: The Great SF Stories 5 (1943) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg; Unknown Worlds, June 1943, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Barry Gardner: Kahawa by Donald Westlake
John Grant: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig; The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro
Aubrey Hamilton: Death in the Quadrangle by Eilis Dillon
Rich Horton: Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley; PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies edited by Theodore R. Cogswell; Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart;
Jerry House: The Select (aka The Foundation) by F. Paul Wilson
Gabino Iglesias: The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
Kate Jackson: three novels by Michael Gilbert;
Death in Store by Jennifer Rowe
Tracy K: Turncoat by Aaron Elkins
Colman Keane: Cast the First Stone and Heart of Stone by James W. Ziskin
George Kelley: The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
Joe Kenney: Cold Iron by "Robert Stone Pryor"
Margot Kinberg: The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson
Rob Kitchin: Winston's War by Michael Dobbs
B. V. Lawson: The Port of London Murders by "Josephine Bell" (Doris Collier Ball)
Evan Lewis: Half Past Mortem by John A. Saxon
Jonathan Lewis: Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
Steve Lewis: The Goodbye Look by "Ross Macdonald" (Kenneth Millar); "Eurema's Dam" by R. A. Lafferty; Lemons Never Lie by "Richard Stark" (Donald Westlake); "Schroedinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger
Mike Lind: Dashiell Hammett, Man of Mystery by Sally Cline
Todd Mason: best of the year horror fiction annuals for 2016
Jess Nevins: some women writers of horror from around the world
John F. Norris: The Flight of the Doves by Walter Macken
Patrick Ohl: In the Best Families by Rex Stout (hosted by Kevin Tipple)
Scott D. Parker: Weird Western Tales, December 1973, edited by Joe Orlando
Matt Paust: The Trail to Seven Pines by Louis L'Amour; Ways of Looking at a Woman by Caroline Hagood
James Reasoner: "Blitzkrieg in the Past" by "John York Cabot" (David Wright O'Brien), Amazing Stories, July 1942, edited by Ray Palmer; All-Western Magazine, August 1936, edited by West F. Peterson
Richard Robinson: A Blaze of Glory by Jeff Shaara
Gerard Saylor: Murdaland, #1 (2007), edited by Michael Lagnas
Jack Seabrook: "One More Mile to Go" by F. J. Smith, Manhunt, June 1956, edited by Scott Meredith
Steven Silver: Convergent Series by Larry Niven
Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, July 1963, edited by Cele Goldsmith-Lalli
"TomKat": Challenge the Impossible: The Final Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne by Edward D. Hoch
David Vineyard: The Seven Sleepers by Francis Beeding
Patricia Abbott: Sleep While I Sing by L. R. Wright; What It Might Feel Like to Hope by Dorene O'Brien
Paul Bishop: the Gunships series by "Jack Hamilton Teed" (Christopher Lowder)
Les Blatt: Three Witnesses by Rex Stout
John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, April 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Ben Boulden: Snowbound by Richard S. Wheeler; Things to Come, January/February 1955, the catalog of the (Doubleday) Science Fiction Book Club
Brian Busby: The Bright Path to Adventure by Gordon Sinclair
Martin Edwards: Arrogant Alibi by C. Daly King
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: Warren Comics (Creepy and Blazing Combat), October to December 1965, edited by Archie Goodwin
Will Errickson: The Manitou by Graham Masterton
José Ignacio Escribano: Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran
Curtis Evans: Swing, Brother, Swing by Ngaio Marsh
Paul Fraser: The Great SF Stories 5 (1943) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg; Unknown Worlds, June 1943, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Barry Gardner: Kahawa by Donald Westlake
John Grant: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig; The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro
Aubrey Hamilton: Death in the Quadrangle by Eilis Dillon
Rich Horton: Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley; PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies edited by Theodore R. Cogswell; Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart;
Jerry House: The Select (aka The Foundation) by F. Paul Wilson
Gabino Iglesias: The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
Kate Jackson: three novels by Michael Gilbert;
Death in Store by Jennifer Rowe
Tracy K: Turncoat by Aaron Elkins
Colman Keane: Cast the First Stone and Heart of Stone by James W. Ziskin
George Kelley: The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
Joe Kenney: Cold Iron by "Robert Stone Pryor"
Margot Kinberg: The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson
Rob Kitchin: Winston's War by Michael Dobbs
B. V. Lawson: The Port of London Murders by "Josephine Bell" (Doris Collier Ball)
Evan Lewis: Half Past Mortem by John A. Saxon
Jonathan Lewis: Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
Steve Lewis: The Goodbye Look by "Ross Macdonald" (Kenneth Millar); "Eurema's Dam" by R. A. Lafferty; Lemons Never Lie by "Richard Stark" (Donald Westlake); "Schroedinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger
Mike Lind: Dashiell Hammett, Man of Mystery by Sally Cline
Todd Mason: best of the year horror fiction annuals for 2016
Jess Nevins: some women writers of horror from around the world
John F. Norris: The Flight of the Doves by Walter Macken
Patrick Ohl: In the Best Families by Rex Stout (hosted by Kevin Tipple)
Scott D. Parker: Weird Western Tales, December 1973, edited by Joe Orlando
Matt Paust: The Trail to Seven Pines by Louis L'Amour; Ways of Looking at a Woman by Caroline Hagood
James Reasoner: "Blitzkrieg in the Past" by "John York Cabot" (David Wright O'Brien), Amazing Stories, July 1942, edited by Ray Palmer; All-Western Magazine, August 1936, edited by West F. Peterson
Richard Robinson: A Blaze of Glory by Jeff Shaara
Gerard Saylor: Murdaland, #1 (2007), edited by Michael Lagnas
Jack Seabrook: "One More Mile to Go" by F. J. Smith, Manhunt, June 1956, edited by Scott Meredith
Steven Silver: Convergent Series by Larry Niven
Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, July 1963, edited by Cele Goldsmith-Lalli
"TomKat": Challenge the Impossible: The Final Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne by Edward D. Hoch
David Vineyard: The Seven Sleepers by Francis Beeding
Thanks, Todd!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jack!
ReplyDeleteI hadn't heard of Richard Wheeler's death. He was an extremely talented writer.
ReplyDeleteNor had I till I read Ben Boulden's post. He was, as Boulden notes, prone to long "silences" in social media. Apparently he was a long-time friend of Margot Kidder's, something else I might envy him.
ReplyDeleteYour review inspired me to "friend" F. Paul Wilson on Fb, after a few communications on Twitter.