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. Patricia Abbott: My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Stacy Alesi: The S List: Fiction Reviews 1983-2013
Frank Babics: the fate of damaged books
Mark Baker: The Lost World by Michael Crichton
Paul Bishop: the Mike Carter collection of men's adventure fiction
Les Blatt: A Six-Letter Word for Death by Patricia Moyes; Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries by Melville Davisson Post; 42nd annual Black Orchid Weekend
Joachim Boaz: "Wish Upon a Star" by Judith Merril, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1958, edited by Robert P. Mills
Ben Boulden: The Night Hunters and three other novels by Jack (John Miles) Bickham as by "John Miles"
Brian Busby: Max Braithwaite novels (last cover at end of column probably NSFW)
Bob Byrne: Dead Man's Brand by Norbert Davis
Alice Chang: Is The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator pseudo-science?
Douglas Cohen: Realms of Fantasy, December 1994, edited by Shawna McCarthy
Don D'Ammassa: SF reviews
Liz Dexter: Jackson's Dilemma by Iris Murdoch
Scott Edelman: Lisa Tuttle; Ramsey Campbell (Eating the Fantastic interviews)
Martin Edwards:
Appointment with Yesterday by Celia Fremlin
Peter Enfantino: Atlas (proto-Marvel) horror comics, January 1953
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC war comics, March 1976
Will Errickson: Book of the Dead edited by John Skipp and Craig Spector
José Ignacio Escribano: Murder in the Mill-Race by "E. C. R. Lorac" (Edith Caroline Rivett); "Anthony Bathurst" novels by Brian Flynn
Curtis Evans: The Return of Solar Pons by August Derleth
Eric Leif Davin: Other Worlds Science Stories, June 1952, edited by Raymond Palmer and Beatrice Mahaffey
"Olman Feelyus": The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann; Courtroom USA 2 by Rupert Frumeaux
Paul Fraser: Clarkesworld, January 2010, edited by Neil Clarke and Sean Wallace
Barry Gardner: The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly
John Grant: These Violent Delights by Sharon Linnea; X by Sue Grafton
Aubrey Hamilton: Pronto by Elmore Leonard; Irreparable Harm by Melissa F. Miller
Bev Hankins: The Dutch Shoe Mystery by "Ellery Queen" (Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee); The Case of the Second Chance by Christopher Bush
James W. Harris: "Wish Upon a Star" by Judith Merril, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1958, edited by Robert P. Mills; "Lungfish" by John Brunner, Science Fantasy, December 1957, edited by E. J. Carnell; The Generation Starship in Science Fiction: A Critical History, 1934-2001 by Simone Caroti
Rich Horton: Catherine L. Moore and the Forry Award; The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl by Tim Pratt
Jerry House: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer: The Day I Died scripted by Max Allan Collins, with art by Marcelo Salaza & Marcio Freire and lettering by Tom Williams; Strange Suspense Stories, July 1968, edited by Dick Giordano
Maureen Howard: "Expiation" by Edith Wharton, Cosmopolitan, December 1903, edited by John Brisben Walker
Kate Jackson: Catt Out of the Bag by Clifford Witting; Xmas Mysteries, Ranked; Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie
Tracy K: The Black-Headed Pins by Constance and Gwenyth Little; The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler (translation in this edition by Ann Long)
Karen/"Kaggsy": The Owl, The Duck and--Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe! by John Cowper Powys
Colman Keane: The Snatch by Bill Pronzini
George Kelley: The Great SF Stories #17 (1955) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
Joe Kenney: City Come A-Walkin' by John Shirley; Operation Hang Ten #8: Beach Queen Blowout by "Patrick Morgan" (in this case George Snyder)
Rob Kitchin: Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran
B. V. Lawson: The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories edited by Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert
Des/D. F. Lewis: Remember the Dead edited by J. A. Mains
Evan Lewis: Nero Wolfe, the comic strip; "On the Level" by C. H. Moore; contemporary reviews of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon
Steve Lewis: The Duveen Letter by Edwin Leather; The Grail Tree by Jonathan Gash; "Suicide Scenario" by Robert Leslie Bellem, Thrilling Detective, February 1948, edited by Leo Margulies et al.; The Case of the Shapely Shadow by Erle Stanley Gardner
Gary Lovisi (and friend): Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine cover and interior illustration
Todd Mason: Famous Fantastic Mysteries, June, 1953, edited by Mary Gnaedinger; Strange Stories, February 1939, edited by Mort Weisinger
Peter Nelson-King and Brian Bigelow: Crown of Flowers and Sweet Bobby by Joel Kurtzman; Diary of a Useless Day by Janine Bregeon (translated by Helen R. Lane and Bernard Frechtman); The Princess of 72nd Street and three other novels by Elaine Kraf
Jess Nevins: Russian/Soviet pulp-related fiction
John F. Norris: Murder Comes Back by Harriette Ashbrook; best reissues
John O'Neill: The Astounding-Analog Reader edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss
Matt Paust: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Mildred Perkins: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Jordan Prejean: The Twilight Zone Magazine, April 1982, edited by T. E. D. Klein
James Reasoner: My Old Man's Badge by "Ferguson Findley" (Charles Frey); Exciting Western, May 1953, edited by Everett H. Ottner
Richard Robinson: Campion at Christmas by Margery Allingham
Sandra Ruttan: Yellow Line by Sylvia Olsen
Steve Scott: John D. MacDonald on war surplus and compulsory lawns
Steven H Silver: Amazons!
edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Kerrie Smith: Poirot's Early Cases by Agatha Christie
Marina Sofia: The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
"TomCat": Murder Makes Murder and Tbe Murder of Sigurd Sharon by Harriette Ashbrook
David Vineyard: Under Tower Peak by Bart Paul
Bill Wallace: Tiger Woman by Betty May; Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings, 1950-1995 by Terry Southern; Weird Tales, April 1923, edited by Edwin Baird
A. J. Wright; William E. Vance; John Craig Stewart
Kerrie Smith: Poirot's Early Cases by Agatha Christie
Marina Sofia: The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
"TomCat": Murder Makes Murder and Tbe Murder of Sigurd Sharon by Harriette Ashbrook
David Vineyard: Under Tower Peak by Bart Paul
Bill Wallace: Tiger Woman by Betty May; Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings, 1950-1995 by Terry Southern; Weird Tales, April 1923, edited by Edwin Baird
A. J. Wright; William E. Vance; John Craig Stewart
10 comments:
Thanks, Todd! Quite a packed house this week.
As with most weeks of late...contributing to, along with other matters, their tardiness...thank you, Jack.
Cheers, Todd!
To you as well, Jose!
Loved Uncle Abner!
Then, if you don't have that volume or something comparable, you might well have something to drop hints about for those looking for a seasonal (or other) gift for you...
As always, thanks and thanks!
And back at you, sir!
Todd, I was impressed by the unusual piece by Gary Lovisi and his wife concerning collecting original art. I know you have started to show the Lovisi's youtube collecting videos and I hope you continue. I've been collecting original art since the seventies and it really adds to any paperback or pulp library. As Gary says, there may be hundreds or even thousands of copies of a magazine or paperback but there is only one unique piece of original art.
Glad you like them, Walker. You should write something public-facing about the little magazines you love. Steve or I would be among those wanting to publish, I suspect.
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