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.
Brad Bigelow: Businessmen as Lovers by Rosemary Tonks
Les Blatt: And Four to Go by Rex Stout
Elgin Bleecker: JFK's recommended reading list
Joachim Boaz: Hegira by Greg Bear
John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, August 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Brian Busby: The Damned and the Destroyed by Kenneth Orvis
Jason Cavallaro: Floating Staircase by Ronald Malfi
Steve Carper: July 20, 2019: Life in the 21st Century by Arthur C. Clarke
Martin Edwards: Mystery on the 'Queen Mary' by Bruce Graeme
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: Warren Horror Comics, May/June 1967, edited by Archie Goodwin
Will Errickson: Seeing Red by David J. Schow; help IDing horror fiction half-remembered
José Ignacio Escribano: The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin
Curtis Evans: The Four Tragedies of Memworth by Ernest Hamilton and Ronald Knox's ten rules for crime fiction; the insensitivities of Golden Age crime fiction
Olman Feelyus: Deadly Welcome by John D. MacDonald; The Reflection of Evil (aka Death of a Fox) by "Jan Roffman" (Margaret Summerton)
Paul Fraser: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November-December 2014, edited by Gordon Van Gelder
Barry Gardner: Vanishing Act by Thomas Parry
John Grant: Where Roses Never Die by Gunnar Staalesen (translated by Don Bartlett); All She Was Worth by Miyuki Miyabe (translated by Alfred Birnbaum)
Lauren Groff: "The Empress's Ring" by Nancy Hale
Aubrey Hamilton: The Shape of Fear by "Hugh Pentecost" (Judson Pentecost Phillips); The Verge Practice by Barry Maitland; Compelling Evidence by Steve Martini Rich Horton: The Best Shorter Fiction in SF So Far; Cory Doctorow short fiction; Esther Friesner short fiction; Robert Sheckley short fiction; Matthew Johnson short fiction
Jerry House: Zero Cool by "John Lange" (Michael Crichton); Three to Conquer by Eric Frank Russell
Kate Jackson: 120 Rue de la Gare by Léo Malet (translated by Peter Hudson)
Nick Jones: The Best of Xero, edited by Pat and Richard Lupoff
Tracy K: Pearls Before Swine by Margery Allingham
Colman Keane: What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg George Kelley: The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates
Joe Kenney: Cocaine by Marc Olden; Lynch Town by Warren/W. B. Murphy
Rob Kitchin: The Blood Spilt by Åsa Larsson, translated by Marlaine Delargy
Kate Laity: Edith's Diary by Patricia Highsmith
Evan Lewis: "Coonskin Davy Crockett", Dead-Eye Western Comics, June-July 1951, edited by Edward Cronin
Steve Lewis: Goodbye, Nanny Gray by Susannah Stacey; "Murder Twist" by Thomas Walsh, Ace-High Detective Stories, August 1936, edited by Kenneth White; Too Close to the Edge by Susan Dunlap
Gideon Marcus: Galaxy, August 1964, edited by Frederik Pohl
Todd Mason: Tomorrow's Crimes by Donald E. Westlake; The Relevance of Anarchism to Modern Society by Sam Dolgoff; the late (as of Sunday) Paul Krassner and his The Realist among other humor magazines and annuals and anthologies from them; The Realist online complete archive
James McGlothlin: The Best of Robert Bloch among
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John F. Norris: The Djinn by Graham Masterton
John O'Neill: The Year's Best SF 9 edited by Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison
Matt Paust: The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman
James Reasoner: John Severin's Billy the Kid by Joe Gill and John Severin
Richard Robinson: Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein
Gerard Saylor: Cripple Creek by James Sallis
Jack Seabrook: "Anyone for Murder?" by Jack Ritchie, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January 1964, edited by Richard Decker
Steven H Silver: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, August 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Kerrie Smith: Crimson Lake by Candice Fox
Kevin Tipple: The Philadelphia Quarry by Howard Owen
"TomCat": The Case with Nine Solutions by "J. J. Connington" (Albert W. Stuart)
Prashant Trikannad: Memory Man by David Baldacci
Al Tucher: The Greatest Slump of All Time by David Carkeet
David Vineyard: Dames Don't Care by Peter Cheyney
Thomas Wickersham: Peregrine by William Bayer
A. J. Wright: Marie Bankhead Owen's works; Fannie Flagg
Thanks for the link, Todd.
ReplyDeleteI shouldn’t have read John O’Neill’s piece—I’ve now got three volumes of the Orbit Yearbook winging their way to me. So much for trying to downsize . . . .
Thank you, Paul...and there are worse addictions. Just make sure your shelves are light enough to carry...and stong enough for all the bricks of paper you put on them...
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ReplyDeleteNot at all, Jack...thank you.
ReplyDeleteAs always, thanks for all the links, Todd. I am hopping right over to Rick's post on Red Planet, which I have been waiting for.
ReplyDeleteHopping is what they're here for! Thank you, Tracy...for the kind remarks and your contributions.
ReplyDeleteAs always, many thanks for the link and for the links to so many interesting reviews. I can see I'll have to give JJ Connington a try after all these years . . .
ReplyDeleteThank you, Paul...and there are a few I'm going to have to look at When I Think I Can. Hugh Pentecost's short fiction I've read, but never a novel, for example...
ReplyDeleteI'm in a similar situation re Pentecost. I've had a novel of his on the shelves since, er, the 1990s, possibly earlier . . .
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