RICHARD LUPOFF, 21 February 1935-22 October 2020

Patricia and Richard Lupoff, 1958 (courtesy File 770)

Richard Lupoff's current archives at KPFA-FM, his Pacifica Radio show devoted to book-people interviews and discussion; the somewhat larger archive of Bookwaves: Cover-to-Cover episodes (includes Lupoff and no-Lupoff episodes)

The File 770 obituary

Locus obituary

At Mystery Fanfare

Xero, the fanzine, archive (important to the sf/fantasy, comics, and film-fan communities, notable for the All in Color for a Dime running series of articles and eventual anthology, Donald Westlake's "resignation" from sf and fantasy writing and responses from a range of writers and editors, the Avram Davidson Birthday Issue, early film criticism from Harlan Ellison and fannish writing from a young Roger Ebert, among much else)

Richard Lupoff's contributions to this blog:

On "Day Keene" and Leonard Pruyn's World Without Women

On Bill Crider

Update on What If? Volume 3 and other Surinam Turtle Press publications

And about or quoting Dick Lupoff and his work:

The Compleat Ova Hamlet by Richard Lupoff (art by Trina Robbins, introduction by Philip "Willam Tenn" Klass)

All in Color for a Dime by Richard Lupoff (also features a review of an "Ed McBain" novel by Ed Gorman)

The Investigations of Avram Davidson, edited by Grania Davis and Richard Lupoff, and other work with Davis

Other citations of Richard Lupoff

FRIDAY'S "FORGOTTEN" BOOKS AND MORE: the links to the reviews and texts; 1 November 2019

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 terribly sorry for what's turned out to be an illness delay, probably the longest delay in FFB's reasonably long history. This is a good week for Lawrence Block, John Pugmire, locked-room mysteries, and seasonal horror (of course). 

Patricia Abbott: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

Stacy Alesi: The M List: Fiction Reviews 1983-2013

Brad Bigelow: Trance by Appointment by G. E. Trevelyan 

Paul Bishop: the novels of Ralph Compton 

Les Blatt: Nine Times Nine by "Anthony Boucher" (William White); The Fourth Door by Paul Halter (translated by John Pugmire) 

Elgin Bleecker: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by "R. A. Dick" (Josephine Leslie) 

Joachim Boaz: The Year of the Crack (aka The Crack) by Emma Tennant 

Ben Boulden: Vengeance Valley by Richard S. Wheeler 

Brian Busby: Harlequin Books Hallowe'ens... 

Jason Cavallaro: Penpal by Dathan Auerbach, My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due, and others 

Christy (at Bristol Library): The Hunger by Whitley Strieber

Bill Crider: The Best of Xero edited by Pat and Richard Lupoff 

Martin Edwards: Skin for Skin by Winifred Duke

Peter Enfantino: Atlas (proto-Marvel) horror comics, November (All Hallows) 1952

Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC war comics December 1975/best & worst of '75

Will Errickson: False Idols by Betty Ferm 

José Ignacio Escribano: locked room stories: "The Stalker in the Attic" by "Edogawa Rampo" (Taro Hirai)(translated by Seth Jacobowitz); "The Locked House of Pythagoras" by Soji Shimada (translated by Yuko Shimada and John Pugmire); "The Lure of the Green Door" by Rintaro Norizuki (translated by Ho-Ling Wong); and the novels of Seishi Yokomizo 

Curtis Evans: The Case of Alan Copeland by Moray Dalton; Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie; Henry von Rhau

"Olman Feelyus": Testament by David Morrell; The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt 

Paul Fraser: The 1977 Annual World's Best SF edited by Donald Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha

John Grant: The Gray Flannel Shroud by Henry Slesar; Jemima Shore's First Case and Other Stories by Antonia Fraser; The Art of Arrow Cutting by Stephen Dedman; The Nightspinners by Lucretia Grindle; After I'm Gone by Laura Lippman

Aubrey Hamilton: The Crime at the Noah's Ark by Molly Thynne; Jury Double by Edward Stewart

Bev Hankins: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North 

Rich Horton: Solar Lottery by Philip K. Dick; The Big Jump by Leigh Brackett; Michael Blumlein, in memoriam 

Jerry House: A Scent of New-Mown Hay by John Blackburn 

Kate Jackson: Case with Ropes and Rings by Leo Bruce

Tracy K: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote; book sale finds 

Karen/"Kaggsy": Doe Lea by M. John Harrison

Colman Keane: Shadows and Warm and Willing by "Jill Emerson" (Lawrence Block); Four Lives at the Crossroads by Lawrence Block 

George Kelley: The Great SF Stories 15 (1953) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg 

Joe Kenney: Balzan of the Cat People #3: The Lights of Zetar by "Wallace Moore" (Gerard F./Gerry Conway); Istanbul (Nick Carter: Killmaster #10) by "Nick Carter" (in this case, Manning Lee Coles)

Rob Kitchin: A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey 

B. V. Lawson: The Hanging Doll Murder by Roger Ormerod

Des/D. F. Lewis: Nox Pareidolia edited by Robert S. Wilson 

Evan Lewis: Nero Wolfe the comic strip (1956-58) written by John Broome and then Ed Herron, illustrated by "Mike Roy", "Fran Matera" and then Jim Christiansen, attributed  to and with input from Rex Stout 

Steve Lewis: Phi Beta Murder by C. H. Challinor; locked room stories: "The Yellow Room" by Paul Halter (translated by John Pugmire), Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2017, edited by Janet Hutchings; and "Vanishing Act" by Bill Pronzini and Michael Kurland, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January 1976, edited by Ernest Hutter; The Looking Glass Murders by Philips Lore; "Gibraltar Falls" by Poul Anderson, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1975, edited by Edward Ferman; "Good Intentions" by Michael Z. Lewin, EQMM, November 2012, edited by Janet Hutchings

Gary Lovisi: Avon Fantasy Reader, edited by Donald Wollheim 

Todd Mason: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Month of Mystery (and such variants as AHP: Dates with Death) edited by Robert Arthur

Francis M. Nevins: Time to Murder and Create and In the Midst of Death by Lawrence Block 

John F. Norris: The Shapes of Midnight by Joseph Payne Brennan; Kthulhu Reich by Asamatsu Ken (translated by Jim Rion) (and please see comments, below) 

John O'Neill:  Cats Have No Lord and The Tangled Lands by Will Shetterly; Matter's End by Gregory Benford

Matt Paust: Parallel Play by Tim Page

James Reasoner: Young Kit Carson by H. Bedford Jones 

Richard Robinson: The Shadow: "Partners of Peril" by "Maxwell Grant" (in this case, Theodore Tinsley)

Sandra Ruttan: Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice 

Gerard Saylor: The Force by Don Winslow; Brainquake by Samuel Fuller 

Steve Scott: "Who Will Kill Travis McGee?" by Patrick Hynan and John D. MacDonald 

Doreen Sheridan: The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook

Steven H. Silver: The Unlimited Dream Company by J. G. Ballard 

Adrian Simmons: The Secret of High Eldersham by Miles Burton

Kerrie Smith: The Child's Child by "Barbara Vine" (Ruth Rendell) 

Marina Sofia: Little Siberia by Antti Tuomainen (translated by David Hackston); Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver

Peter Straub/Mark Finn: "The Black Stone" by Robert E. Howard, Weird Tales, November 1931, edited by Farnsworth Wright 

Scott Tipple: The Batman Who Laughs by Scott Snyder and Jock 

"TomCat": locked room mysteries; Bones Don't Lie by Curtiss T. Gardner; The Open Window by Roger Ormerod

Gordon Van Gelder: Michael Blumlein 

Bill Wallace: Weird Tales, April 1926, edited by Farnsworth Wright

Mark Yon: New Worlds SF, November/December 1964, edited by Michael Moorcock

FRIDAY'S "FORGOTTEN" BOOKS AND MORE: the links to the reviews: 26 July 2019

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: In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters by Jean Shepherd

Mark Baker: The Closers by Michael Connelly

Brad Bigelow: In Our Metropolis by Phyllis Livingstone

Les Blatt: Maigret and the Headless Corpse by Georges Simenon (translated by Howard Curtis)

Joachim Boaz: Orbit 1 edited by Damon Knight 

Z. Z. Claybourne: The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust 

Gabe Dybing: "The People of the Black Circle" by Robert E. Howard, Weird Tales, September, October and November 1934, edited by Farnsworth Wright

Martin Edwards: ...And Presumed Dead by Lucille Fletcher; More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes edited by Nick Rennison

Peter Enfantino: Atlas (pre-Marvel) Horror Comics: July 1952 

Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC War Comics: May 1975 

Stephen Erickson: Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer

Will Errickson: A Nest of Nightmares by Lisa Tuttle

José Ignacio Escribano: A Pinch of Snuff by Reginald Hill 

Curtis Evans: Nigel Morland, and his career (and correcting a bit of the previous essay)

Olman Feelyus: Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford 

Paul Fraser: Fantastic Novels Magazine, July 1950, edited by Mary Gnaedinger 

Barry Gardner: Original Sin by P. D. James

John Grant: Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky 
(translated by Sandra Smith); Beyond Suspicion by Tanguy Viel (translated by Linda Coverdale);  Vintage 1954 by Antoine Laurain (translated by Jane Aitken & Emily Boyce)

Aubrey Hamilton: Out of the Past by Patricia Wentworth; Sayonara Slam by Naomi Hirahara; Dead Angler by Victoria Houston

James W. Harris: The Way the Future Was by Frederik Pohl

Rich Horton: Dwellers of the Deep by "K. M. O'Donnell" (Barry M. Malzberg); The Gates of Time by Neal Barrett, Jr.; Daybreak--2250 A. D. (aka Star Man's Son 2250 A. D., etc.) by Andre Norton (nee Alice Norton); Beyond Earth's Gates by "Lewis Padgett" (in this case, apparently to suggest Henry Kuttner) and C. L. Moore; Fran Wilde short stories; C. M. Kornbluth stories; The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison; Dragon Venom by Lawrence Watt-Evans

Jerry House: Pstalemate by "Lester del Rey" (Leonard Knapp) 

Kate Jackson: Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers; Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong; A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell 

Nick Jones: The Best of Xero edited by Pat and Dick Lupoff

Tracy K: Might As Well Be Dead by Rex Stout; Allmen and Butterflies by Martin Suter 

Colman Keane: The Dead Never Forget (aka Bragg's Lunch) by Jack Lynch 

George Kelley: The Great SF Stories #11 (1949) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg 

Joe Kenney: Real Endings by Gene Duris(?); Moscow at High Noon is the Target by "Paul Richards" (in this case, Chet Cunningham and Dan Streib)

Rob Kitchin: The Last Goodnight by Howard Blum

Kate Laity: Symposium by Muriel Spark; Libby by Milt Machlin; Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse by Georges Simenon (translated by  Ros Schwartz); Cari Mora by Thomas Harris 

B. V. Lawson: The Long Shadow by Celia Fremlin

Evan Lewis: Life on Other Worlds by Murphy Anderson (Planet Comics, 1940s)

Steve Lewis: "Night Birds" by Erle Stanley Gardner, Argosy Weekly, August 5 1933; "The Riddle of the Dangling Pearl" by Stuart Palmer, Mystery, November 1933, edited by Hugh Weir 

Gideon Marcus: Galaxy, June 1964, edited by Frederik Pohl 

John F. Norris: Possession by L. P. Davies

John O'Neill: Carol Emshwiller and the Rediscovery Award; Science Fiction of the '40s edited by Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph Olander  

Matt Paust: People of Darkness by Tony Hillerman

James Reasoner: Twisted Mistress by Ennis Willie

Richard Robinson: Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein 

Sandra Ruttan: The Bloomsday Dead by Adrian McKinty

Gerard Saylor: Midnight Rambler by James Swain

Kerrie Smith: The Day the Lies Began by Kylie Kaden

Werner Sollors: "The Bouquet" by Charles W. Chesnutt

Dan Stumpf: The Counterfeit Traitor by Alexander Klein

"TomCat": "The Lithuanian Eraser Mystery" by Jon L. Breen, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1969, edited by Frederic Dannay (as EQ)

Bill Wallace: Weird Tales, February 1926, edited by Farnsworth Wright

FFB "classic": TOMORROW'S CRIMES by Donald Westlake (Mysterious Press/Warner Books 1990); THE RELEVANCE OF ANARCHISM TO MODERN SOCIETY by Sam Dolgoff (Charles H. Kerr, 1989)

written for (in*sit) ca. 1991, and eventually published in its successor Liberation, Summer 1992; this transcription running a week+ late for the late Westlake's birthday anniversary...

anarchism made stupid:
Tomorrow's Crimes by Donald Westlake (Mysterious Press/Warner Books 1990); The Relevance of Anarchism to Modern Society by Sam Dolgoff (Charles H. Kerr, 1989)

We have here two volumes by intelligent, talented men who've produced major works in their respective fields; one's a pamphlet comprised of the third revision of a long essay first published in 1970, the other's a collection of some of the fantasticated  fiction of a writer best known for hardboiled and absurdist crime fiction, this book largely given over to a short novel called Anarchaos, first published in 1967. They are two of the sorriest introductions to anarchist thought one could have, and both [still could be] betraying that function for dozes or hundreds of readers as you cast your eyes over this.

The Dolgoff is a relentlessly vague, repetitious and mean-spirited screed that frequently undermines the few points it tries to make. He's in trouble from the first paragraph, where he introduces a theme which will run throughout the piece: the "real" anarchists are those who follow "Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, [and] Malatesta"...who didn't agree with each other on various issues rather central to their philosophies (for example, Malatesta and Bakunin would look with less revulsion on armed conflict than would Kropotkin the pacifist); if we follow the thread Dolgoff traces through the thought of these four (without once suggesting they had any differences), we still hit upon discrepancies:  Dolgoff (justly) ridicules those who think The Revolution Just Around the Corner will settle all differences between anarchists and more authoritarian sorts of socialists, then later approvingly quotes Malatesta instructing us to "support all struggles for partial freedom [presumably this includes those of authoritarian socialists] because we are convinced that one learns through struggle, and when one begins to enjoy a little freedom one ends by wanting it all." Tell that to the anarchists who fought in the Russian Revolutions, to the anarchists who at first were willing to work in good faith with the Leninists in the Spanish Civil War (till the CP made it clear that sabotaging the anarchists' efforts and punishing the Trotskyists was more important to them than actually beating the Francoists, Carlists and fascists); tell them how the people in revolt, once they've suffered so much bloodshed from both their old oppressors and those who promise one sort of partial freedom or another, will simply rise up and be decimated again in an attempt to gain the "complete freedom" that Malatesta also speaks of (and which Dolgoff here tells us is unattainable), rather than desperately settle for the mite of any greater freedom they might now have. Malatesta might be excused for the avoidance of practical concerns; Dolgoff the historian and anti-utopian can't be. Dolgoff clearly realizes this, as he spent the first part of his essay severely criticizing "escapists" and bohemians, Nechayevist nihilists and "anti-social" types: one of his redundancies is in breaking these two types of pseudo-anarchists into four, with escapists and bohos almost identical in his descriptions, the nihilists and anti-socials likewise, which he attempts to disguise by arranging them Escapist, Nihilist, Bohemian, Anti-Social. Both Malatesta and Dolgoff were playing More Proletarian Than You, Dolgoff less authentically. 

The rest of the essay is similarly dissatisfying, with a few quotations from non-anarchists who seem to reaffirm anarchist tenets: under the heading "Self-Management", Dolgoff gets excited by the [then] growing attempt to include staff discussion in business decision-making, a la Thriving on Chaos and the like, without bothering to inquire into whether the new tendencies aren't simply a way of masking old hierarchies in friendlier faces, which they usually are. In fact, the coercive use of false consensus is approved here when not glossed over, one of the inherent problems with almost all anarchosyndicalist argument. Anarchists can agree that people should be as much in control of their own activity as possible, and there is consideration here toward an understanding of the advantages of interdependence over isolation, the anarchist potential within our current society, and a legitimate place for sophisticated technology within anarchism, but none of it is compellingly argued. The snottiness toward those with whom Dolgoff [had] disagreed, however, is much in evidence. If you're not already Dolgoff's sort of syndicalist, it won't convince you...it might even turn you away from any sort of anarchism.

Something sure turned Donald Westlake off. His novel, Anarchaos, published originally under his "Curt Clark" (as in rude writer) pseudonym, closes out this collection of stories that frequently verge on our favorite kind of libertarianism. The first Westlake story I read is here, "The Winner" (Nova 1, edited by Harry Harrison, 1970, reprinted in such places as the classroom magazine Read in ca. 1976), about a political prisoner (an "obscene" dissident poet) in an experimental near-future US prison. The

"humanitarian" warden, whose metaphorical name is Wordman to the poet's Revell, can't understand why the poet won't simply resign himself to his imprisonment; this story has stuck with me for [at time of writing the review] more than fifteen years. The other science fiction stories here, notably the rather deft Cold War satire "The Spy in the Elevator" (Galaxy, October, 1961; link to the story here), also evince little patience with such concentrations of power as governments and corporations and the useless idiots who abet them. So what are we to make of such pronouncements in Anarchaos as "The first generation on Anarchaos [a planet], in fact, didn't do too badly, but of course they had been trained on other worlds and understood discipline and group effort, those two hallmarks of government."? The page before, he throws together the prescriptions of "such anarchist, nihilist, and syndicalist writers as William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Benjamin Tucker, Josiah Warren, Max Stirner, Prince Pyotr Kropotkin, Georges Sorel and Sergius Nechaev [sic]" as the basis of Anarchaos society. If Dolgoff has presented us with a disingenuously-homogenized bunch of anarchists, Westlake is in comparison entropic; it's difficult to imagine Warren and Nechayev in the same room for more than a minute, much less the entirety of this exceedingly unlikely crew of Founding Fathers.  One wonders if Westlake [was] an irritable liberal who read an encyclopedia article about anarchism once, or a closet Marxist who believes every slur the anti-libertarian socialists and others ever came up with. He, or his narrator/protagonist, tell us after the first generation the devolving syndicates were take over by interplanetary conglomerates, who have subtly encouraged such institutions as slavery...yet he, or his clueless narrator, keeps referring to "anarchist slavers", to "rugged individualists" who engage in behaviors that even Ayn Rand's most deranged followers probably wouldn't. Strange.

A scanned transcript of the 1977 version of the Dolgoff essay.

As not noted in the original review, the story "Nackles" is a fine and amusing fantasy (more than borderline horror) about a sort of latter-day Krampus, made up by an abusive father and husband to terrify his children. That CBS executives refused to produce Harlan Ellison's script from the story led to Ellison's resignation from the first The Twilight Zone television series revival in the 1980s. See the index below to learn where the story and teleplay are available side by side.

A number of Westlake's short stories up at a fan-site here.

The ISFDB index (good for detailing all SFnal appearances) to Tomorrow's Crimes:

• 1 • The Girl of My Dreams • (1978) • short story by Donald E. Westlake
• 13 • Nackles • (1964) • short story by Donald E. Westlake
• 22 • The Ultimate Caper: The Purloined Letter • (1989) • short story by Donald E. Westlake
• 26 • The Spy in the Elevator • (1961) • novelette by Donald E. Westlake
• 46 • The Risk Profession • (1961) • novelette by Donald E. Westlake
• 75 • The Winner • (1970) • short story by Donald E. Westlake
• 87 • Dream a Dream • (1989) • short story by Donald E. Westlake
• 93 • In at the Death • (1977) • short story by Donald E. Westlake
• 108 • Hydra • (1984) • short story by Donald E. Westlake
• 115 • Anarchaos • (1967) • novel by Donald E. Westlake

The Locus Index (for first publication sites at a glance, and more):
Tomorrow’s Crimes Donald E. Westlake (Mysterious Press 0-89296-299-2, Sep ’89, $18.95, 263pp, hc) Collection of nine fantastic/speculative fiction stories and one short novel by a well-known mystery writer.

• 1 · The Girl of My Dreams · ss The Midnight Ghost Book, ed. James Hale, 1978
• 13 · Nackles [as by Curt Clark] · ss F&SF Jan ’64
• 22 · The Ultimate Caper: The Purloined Letter · ss The New York Times May 11 ’75
• 26 · The Spy in the Elevator · ss Galaxy Oct ’61
• 46 · The Risk Profession · nv Amazing Mar ’61
• 75 · The Winner · ss Nova 1, ed. Harry Harrison, Delacorte, 1970
• 87 · Dream a Dream · ss Cosmopolitan Aug ’82
• 93 · In at the Death · ss The Thirteenth Ghost Book, ed. James Hale, Barrie & Jenkins, 1977; EQMM Nov ’78
• 108 · Hydra · ss F&SF Mar ’84
• 115 · Anarchaos [as by Curt Clark] · n. New York: Ace, 1967

"Curt Clark" was the primary but infrequent pseudonym Westlake used for his speculative fiction work in the 1960s, after contributing a "farewell to SF and fuck you very much" short essay, "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You", to Pat and Richard Lupoff's magazine Xero in 1961, and then continuing to publish in the field (more often in the '70s and later).  He'd insulted a number of the editors in the field, including at least one he would continue to sell to, though he let his agent offer the "Clark" manuscripts, and I don't  know to what extent the editors in question had any illusion these new stories weren't coming from Westlake. Barry Malzberg has advised me that "The Winner" had been a "trunk" story of Westlake's, which Harrison was happy to take for the first volume of his new-fiction anthology series, and it was the first piece by Westlake in SF media under his own name since the "resignation" letter had been published.

The online Archive.org scan of the entire October 1961 issue of Galaxy, edited by Frederik Pohl though "officially" the ailing H. L. Gold was still editing.
Impressive issue generally (FictionMags Index entry): 

Galaxy Magazine [v20 #1, October 1961] (50¢, 196pp, digest, cover by Virgil Finlay)
• 5 · How Much Is Enough? · Anon. · ed (probably by Pohl)
• 8 · A Planet Named Shayol [Instrumentality] · Cordwainer Smith · nv; illustrated by Finlay
• 47 · Crime Machine · Robert Bloch · ss; illustrated by Burns
• 54 · Amateur in Chancery · George O. Smith · ss
• 68 · The Abominable Earthman · Frederik Pohl · nv; illustrated by Francis
• 92 · For Your Information: The Home-Made Land · Willy Ley · cl
• 107 · Mating Call · Frank Herbert · ss; illustrated by Francis
• 122 · Arcturus Times Three [Jerry Norcriss] · Jack Sharkey · nv; illustrated by Schelling
• 158 · The Beat Cluster · Fritz Leiber · ss; illustrated by Francis
• 173 · Galaxy’s Five Star Shelf · Floyd C. "Gale" (Gold) · reviewing: 
• 173 · The Astronauts, Martin Caidin; New York: Dutton, 1961. 224 p. 61-65894. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 173-174 · Space Volunteers, Terence Kay; New York: Harper, 1960. 136 p. 60-5780. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 174 · Ninety Seconds to Space, Jules Bergman; Garden City, N.Y.: Hanover House, 1960. 224 p. 60-12170. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 174 · The Man Who Rode the Thunder, W.H. Rankin; Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1960. 208 p. 60-16622. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 174 · Countdown: The Story of Cape Canaveral, William Roy Shelton; Boston: Little, Brown, 1960. 185 p. 60-9331. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 174-175 · Polaris!, James Baar & William E. Howard; New York: Harcourt, 1960. 245 p. 60-12731. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 175 · Saturday Science, Andrew Bluemle; New York: Dutton, 1960. 333 p. 60-8944. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 175 · Careers and Opportunities in Science, Philip Pollack; New York: Dutton, 1961. 159 p. 61-6025. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 175 · The Book of the Atom, Leonard De Vries; New York: Macmillan, 1960. 267 p. 60-53112. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 175-176 · From Cell to Test Tube, Robert Warner Chambers; New York: Scribners, 1960. 216 p. 60-6412. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 176 · Lost Pharaohs, Leonard Cottrell; New York: Holt, 1961. 250 p. 61-5299. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 176 · The Life and Times of Tarquin the Etruscan, C.M. Franzero; New York: John Day, 1961. 254 p. 61-5692. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 176 · The Romance of Weights and Measures, Keith Gordon Irwin; New York: Viking, 1960. 144 p. 60-6303. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 176-177 · Seven Miles Down, Jacques Piccard; New York: Putnam, 1961. 249 p. 60-16679. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 177 · Science Puzzlers, Martin Gardner; New York: Viking, 1960. 127 p. 60-50950. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 177 · The Wild Rocket, Margaret Jones Hoffmann; Philadelphia: Westminster, 1960. 172 p. 60-9713. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 177 · Edison Experiments You Can Do, Marjorie Van De Water; New York: Harper, 1960. 129 p. 60-9459. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 177 · Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor, Jay Williams; New York: Whittlesey House, 1960. 156 p. 60-12786. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 178 · The Fascinating World of Astronomy, Robert S. Richardson; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. 171 p. 61-5813. · Floyd C. Gale · br
• 178 · The Spy in the Elevator · Donald E. Westlake · ss; illustrated by West

Todd Mason