Facebook thinks this Friday is the anniversary of Ed Gorman's birth, as well as the day after T-day; most of online seems to think (correctly, I suspect) Ed was born on 2 November 1941. But it seems as good a reason as any to spare a thought for Ed.
Patricia Abbott: Ed Gorman Day; Stranglehold by Ed Gorman; How I Came to Write Stranglehold by Ed Gorman
Stacy Alesi: The Q List: Fiction Reviews 1983-2013
Sergio Angelini: The Obstinate Murderer and Speak of the Devil by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding
Brad Bigelow: Ninety Double Martinis by Thomas Hinde
Paul Bishop: Johnny D. Boggs novels
Les Blatt: The Body in the Dumb River by George Bellairs; Death from a Top Hat by Clayton Rawson
Joachim Boaz: "Spacebred Generations" (aka "Target Generation") by Clifford D. Simak, Science Fiction Plus, August 1953, edited by Hugo Gernsback
Ben Boulden: The Girl in the Attic (revised edition of Night Caller) by Ed Gorman
Brian Busby: Exodus/UK by Richard Rohmer
Jason Cavallaro: November books
Bill Crider: Backshot (aka Backshot: 1902) by Ed Gorman
Andy Duncan: Gahan Wilson
Martin Edwards: Marion (aka Murder Off the Record) by John Bingham; The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin; Bodies from the Library 2 edited by Tony Medawar
Peter Enfantino: Atlas (proto-Marvel) horror comics, December 1952 (and the best of '52)
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC war comics, February 1976
Will Errickson: Shadows 3 edited by Charles L, Grant
José Ignacio Escribano: Maigret's Childhood Friend by Georges Simenon (translated by Shaun Whiteside)
Curtis Evans: John Dickson Carr's novels, 1950-1972; The Belgrave Manor Crime by "Moray Dalton" (Katherine Renoir)
"Olman Feelyus": Highland Days by Tom Weir; The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin
Elizabeth Foxwell: Five Women CF Writers Who Died Too Soon
Paul Fraser: The Great SF Stories 11 (1949) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
Ed Gorman: The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Plastic Nightmare by Richard Neely
John Grant: Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes; Stinker from Space by Pamela F. Service; You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann (translated by Ross Benjamin)
Aubrey Hamilton: Coroner's Pidgin by Margery Allingham; Fogland Point by Doug Burgess
Bev Hankins: Tragedy at the Unicorn by "John Rhode" (Cecil Street); Eyes at the Window by George Selmark; Said with Flowers by Anne Nash; When I Am an Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple edited by Sandra Haldeman Martz
Rich Horton: "The Continent Makers" and other short fiction by L. Sprague de Camp; Turn Left at Thursday and other short fiction by Frederik Pohl; The Corridors of Time and other lesser-known work by Poul Anderson (excerpts with more illustration)
Jerry House: Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California by "Dod Grile" (Ambrose Bierce)
Kate Jackson: Puzzle for Fiends by "Patrick Quentin" (Hugh Wheeler and Richard Webb); Calendar of Crime by "Ellery Queen" (Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee); The Murders Near Mapleton by Brian Flynn
Randy Johnson: Blood Moon and The Night Remembers by Ed Gorman
Tracy K: Killed in the Ratings by William DeAndrea; The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen (translated by Lisa Hartford)
Karen/"Kaggsy": the 1947 Club
Colman Keane: Ain't Nobody Nobody by Heather Harper Ellett; Stay Mad, Sweetheart by Helen Kist; Spider, Spin Me a Web by Lawrence Block; Broken Dreams and The Crooked Beat by Nick Quantrill
George Kelley: Frozen Hell by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Joe Kenney: Time Rogue by Leo P. Kelley
Rob Kitchin: The Winter of Her Discontent by Kathryn Miller Haines; The First Wave by James R. Benn
Kate Laity: Jonathan Miller
B. V. Lawson: The Bulrush Murders by Rebecca Rothenberg
Xavier Lechard: the lineage of the family of Ellery Queen, the character
Des/D. F. Lewis: The Dinosaur Tourist by Caitlin R. Kiernan
Evan Lewis: "Black Friday, King of the Spies" illustrated by Allen Ulmer, Cat-Man Comics, April 1942; Nero Wolfe, the comic strip
Steve Lewis: "The Taggart Assignment" by Vincent Starrett, Short Stories, 10 August 1922, edited by Harry E. Maule; "Sargasso of Lost Starships" by Poul Anderson, Planet Stories, January 1952, edited by Jack O'Sullivan; Outside In by Michael Z. Lewin
Gary Lovisi: the first Fawcett Gold Medal paperbacks
Todd Mason: Criminal Intent 1 by Bill Pronzini, Marcia Muller and Ed Gorman; Best Crime Fiction of the Year Annuals edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg; some suspense fiction anthologies; Edward Gorman; Gahan Wilson, John Simon
John F. Norris: The Third Lady by Shizuko Natsuki (translated by Robert B. Rohmer)
John O'Neill: Anachronisms and Starship Alchemon by Christopher Hinz; the Tomorrow's Warfare anthologies edited by Joe Haldeman, Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg; JO as "Todd McAulty" with Howard Andrew Jones: Five Writers Who Taught Them To Write Fantasy: Fritz Leiber, Leigh Brackett, Roger Zelazny, Harold Lamb and Robert Howard
Matt Paust: Dead Man's Gun and Other Western Stories by Ed Gorman; Missing Ed Gorman; Some Came Running by James Jones; Sylvia by Leonard Michaels
James Reasoner: Lone Rider by Ernest Haycox
Richard Robinson: The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction edited by Edward Gorman
Sandra Ruttan: Wilted Lilies by Kelli Owen
Gerard Saylor: The Dry by Jane Harper; Guild by Ed Gorman
Steve Scott: "No Credit Cards for Travis McGee": Jack McClintock interviews John D. MacDonald, Florida Accent, 28 February 1965
Steven H Silver: Bob Shaw; Clifford D. Simak
Kerrie Smith: Dying for a Taste by Leslie Karst; Discount Noir edited by Patricia Abbott and Steve Weddle
Judith Tarr: Ice Crown by Andre Norton (Black Gate on Norton)
Marina Sofia: Letters Home by Sylvia Plath; The Herb of Grace by Elizabeth Goudge; Monsieur by Gerald Durrell
"TomCat": Noose for a Lady by Gerald Verner; The Orange Axe by Brian Flynn
Prashant Trikannad: Cages by Ed Gorman
John Valeri: Bones by Jan Burke
David Vineyard: The Mystery of the Peacock's Eye by Brian Flynn
Adam Wagner: The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
Bill Wallace: Blue Movie by Terry Southern; Divine Rascal by Andy Roberts
Lisa Yaszek: "Baby, You Were Great" by Kate Wilhelm, first published in Orbit 2, edited by Damon Knight
Thanks for reviving my favorite Ed Gorman review, Todd. I'd forgotten what day it is.
ReplyDeleteWell, I suspect that Ed might've mistyped his birthday in Facebook, intentionally or not...but given the number of US contributors tapping out for tis long weekend, I took the convenient hint...
ReplyDeleteThanks, Todd! I never knew there was a second Black Lizard anthology. The first one was great!
ReplyDeleteSo's the second, unsurprisingly! I encountered and read the second first...thank you.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff, as always -- many thanks! And of course many thanks for the links to my humble offerings.
ReplyDeleteThe Kate Laity link is defective.
Paul aka John Grant, your modesty is far too excessive...thank you on the provision of your reviews, your kind words about the assembly, and spotting the bad link.
ReplyDeleteReally, you should use Name/URL to make linking to your blog possible...even with out the WordPress "bug" next to the signature!
The problem there is that Google then refuses to send me notifications of follow-up comments.
ReplyDeleteFurther, Captcha sometimes puts me through the hoops of identifying all those in a collection of murky photos that show (say) bicycles. For someone visually impaired, as I now am, this can be no effing joke.
But I'll try . . .
Yes, those "Captcha"s are pretty damned annoying for anyone ("You got it wrong...there's a molecule of the bus in square 14!")...I think there's a vision-impaired option, but probably not...shall check.
ReplyDeleteDidn't realize it would forward on Anonymous but not Name/URL...more and more foolishness.
Except that this time it did alert me on my regular e-address to both my own comment and your response. The behavior seems to vary from one blogspot/blogger site to the next. Oh, gibber.
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