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. And a happy birthday to Ben Boulden!
Les Blatt: The Case of the Haven Hotel by Christopher Bush
Joachim Boaz: The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, March 1962, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Ben Boulden: The Dragon Man by Gary Disher; Teklords by Ron Goulart and William Shatner
Brian Busby: Gambling with Fire by "David Montrose" (Charles Ross Graham)
Larry Clow: Forfeit by Dick Francis
Martin Edwards: Shock! aka The Black Door by Virgil Markham
Peter Enfantino: Atlas (proto-Marvel) Horror Comics, April 1952
Barry Ergang: Drowned Hopes by Donald Westlake
Will Errickson: Post Mortem edited by Paul F. Olsen and David B. Silva
José Ignacio Escribano: The Cambridge Companion to Crime
Curtis Evans: The Running of Beasts by Bill Pronzini and Barry N.Malzberg
James T. Farrell: The Set-Up and The Wild Party by Joseph Moncure March
Olman Feelyus: The Babysitter by Andrew Coburn
Paul Fraser: Astounding Science-Fiction, October 1943, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Charles Gramlisch: Spirit Vessels by Dennis Formento
John Grant: These Are the Names by Tommy Weiringa (translation by Sam Garrett); The Blind Man of Seville by Robert Wilson
Aubrey Hamilton: Through the Wall by Patricia Wentworth
Ryan Harvey: The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E. Howard
Rich Horton: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith; "A Meeting with Medusa" by Arthur C. Clarke (Playboy, December 1971, edited by Hugh Hefner); Endless Honeymoon by Don Webb; stories by Larry Niven; stories by Alexander Jablokov; Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett; Reality Forbidden by Philip E. High; Contraband from Otherspace by A. Bertram Chandler
Jerry House: The Green Odyssey by Philip José
Farmer; the inane and troubling 1921 New York Evening Post comic strip "Our Own Ku Klux Klan" by "Al Zere" (Albert Alblitzer)
Kate Jackson: The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith; The April Robin Murders by "Craig Rice" (Georgiana Craig) and "Ed McBain" (Evan Hunter, ne Salvatore Lombino)
Tracy K: The Tin Flute (originally Bonheur d'occasion) by Gabrielle
Colman Keane: Hard Bite by "Anonymous-9" (Elaine Ash)
George Kelley: The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology edited by the Editors of Mysterious Press (Sarah Ann Freed, William Malloy and Otto Penzler, perhaps)
Joe Kenney: Killer at Large by "Don Bannon" (Manning Lee Stokes?)
Rob Kitchin: Design for Dying by Renee Patrick
B.V. Lawson: Through a Glass, Darkly by Helen McCloy
Evan Lewis: Zorro and the Jaguar Warriors by Jerome Preisler
Steve Lewis: "The Land of Lost Content" by Chad Oliver (Super Science Stories, November 1950, edited by Ejler Jakobsson); "The Parker Shotgun" by Sue Grafton (Mean Streets, edited by Robert Randisi, Mysterious Press 1986); "Waiting for the Olympians" by Frederik Pohl (Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1988, edited by Gardner Dozois); "One, Two, Three" by "Paul Cain" (Peter Ruric),Black Mask, May 1933, edited by Joseph T. Shaw; Amazing Fantasy, November 2004, edited by Joe Quesada, written by Fiona Avery; "You'll Always Remember Me" by Steve Fisher (Black Mask, March 1938, edited by Fanny Ellsworth)
Francis M. Nevins: the novels of David Goodis
John F. Norris: Nine Days' Panic by Reginald Davis
John O'Neill: On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch
Matt Paust: Death in the Old Country by Eric Wright
Mildred Perkins: The Jedi Handbook by Stephen Massicotte
James Reasoner: Madball by Fredric Brown
Richard Robinson: Look to the Lady by Margery Allingham
Gerard Saylor: The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost
Jack Seabrook and Peter Enfantino: DC War Comics November 1974
Stephen H Silver: A. E. Van Vogt; Locus magazine, edited by Charles Brown et al.
Victoria Silverwolf: Worlds of Tomorrow, May 1964, edited by Frederik Pohl
Kerrie Smith: The Marriage Club by Kate Legge
Dan Stumpf: Two Gentlemen of Lebowski by Adam Bertocci
"TomCat": The Case of the Magic Mirror by Christopher Bush
David Vineyard: "The King Makers" by H. Bedford Jones (Short Stories, 25 April 1932, edited by Roy de S. Horn)
Thanks, Todd. I have to check out that post by Reasoner.
ReplyDeleteThanks for pulling together these links, Todd. There are a lot I want to follow up on. Some especially interesting ones from Rich Horton.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your contributions...and for checking out the other entries! An the benisons...
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