Crossover: Shell Scott meets Secret Agent X-9 (Secret Agent Corrigan)

Check this out! I'll definitely be adding this to Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World.

I'm also feeling a short Wold-Newtonry essay coming on sometime soon. I think it's about time that Shell Scott was linked into Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Family.

Since I'm particularly jazzed at discovering this crossover tonight, here's a bonus Shell Scott oriented pic o' the day. :-)

The 2008 Wold Newton Award

Better late than never, it's worth noting that Jean-Marc Lofficier won the 2008 Wold Newton Award, or the "Woldy," which was handed out at Farmercon 90 in on July 26 in Peoria, IL. (Hey, I haven't even had time to download the Farmercon pics from my digital camera yet! But I will soon, I promise, and post a few good shots here.)

Here is the message about the award on Jean-Marc's Black Coat Press website.

Congrats to JM!

Two books of interest to Wold Newton fans

In THE ELDRITCH NEW ADVENTURES OF BECKY SHARP, the villainess of the Victorian classic Vanity Fair enters the Cthulhu Mythos as an agent of H.P. Lovecraft's Great Race of Yith!Cover, frontispiece, and title page illustrations by Loston Wallace! With a mini-introductory essay by Mark (Xenoxoic Tales, The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, King Features' Prince Valiant) Schultz!

And the answers to these and other metafictional mysteries: 1) The circumstances of the unheralded first attempted Lidenbrock Expedition to the Center of the Earth! 2) The secret parentage of Ann Darrow, bride of the fearsome Kong! 3) The apocalyptic origins and final fate of Queequeg's fetish and how it went from pagan idol among the wreckage of the Pequod to a dust-gathering paperweight at 221-B Baker Street!

The Eldritch New Adventures of Becky Sharp by Micah S. Harris is now available for $14.95 ($15.27 Canada) plus $4.00 postage and handling for First Class mailing US (Total: $18.95) and $7.00 postage Canada (Total $22.27). Overseas mailing is priority only at $15.00 ($29.95 total).Pay via Paypal and pay to MHa6106@aol.com. Please specify "Becky Sharp Book" and include your name and complete address (including country if overseas) and if you wish your copy to be signed by the author. Also available on Amazon.com.

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Altus Press has put together a collection of Rick Lai's articles (mainly involving heroes). The book is entitled SECRET HISTORIES: DARING ADVENTURERS.

Contents:

A Chronology for the Avenger

Yasmini of India

The Life and Times of Steve Harrison

The Legend of El Borak

The Life and Times of Wild Bill Clanton

The Saga of Singapore Sammy

The Sgt. Jaeger Chronology

The Mystery of Harry Quatermain and Other Conundrums

The Saga of John Gorman

Secrets of Sir Henry Merrivale

The Lecoq Universe

Peter the Brazen: The Inconsistencies

Peter the Brazen Vs. Fu Manchu

The Hand of Kong

The Contradictions of Khlit the Cossack

The A.J. Raffles Chronology

The Insane Captain Wentworth

The Anomaly of Professor Challenger’s Daughter

A Scandal in Ruritania

The Holmes-Lupin Rivalry

The Savage Family of India

The Tragic Case of John Blakeney

The Jules de Grandin Chronology (co-authored with Matthew Baugh)

There will be a collection called SECRET HISTORIES: CRIMINAL MASTERMINDS in the future. This will include all Rick's other Fu Manchu articles.

New Interview - Heidi's Pick Six

Over at LiveJournal, ambasadora was kind enough to include me in her Heidi's Pick Six interview project. You can check it out here.

Index to MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE: PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER’S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE

Adrian Nebbett, gentleman proprietor of the Sherlock Holmes Pastiche Character Index, a resource I turn to often, e-mailed me out of the blue to say he's done an index for MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE: PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER’S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE.

It's a fantastic bit of work, for which I've thanked him profusely.

You can download your copy by going to his page "Indexes to Classic Sherlockian Works."

And no, it is not lost on me that Mr. Nebbett considers MYTHS to be a "classic Sherlockian work." High praise, indeed.

MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE now listed on 37th annual Locus Awards ballot - Please Vote

Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe is on the 37th Annual Locus Awards ballot for best Non-Fiction book of 2006.

If you've read Myths and enjoyed it, then please consider voting for it; I and the other contributors would be most grateful.

THE BEST OF PHILIP JOSE FARMER is also listed on the ballot for Best Single-Author Collection, so be sure to vote for that as well.

Be sure to also give props to Chris Roberson and the other MonkeyBrain Books titles, and consider a vote for Myths contributor Chris Carey's former Writing Popular Fiction mentor, Tobias Buckell, who is up for Best First Novel for CRYSTAL RAIN.

Anyone can vote. Please post this on your blogs, forward to friends and family, etc, ASAP. And ask them to vote and forward it on.

https://secure.locusmag.com/2007/2007PollAndSurvey.html

Best,

Win

MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE now listed on 37th annual Locus Awards ballot - Please Vote

Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe is on the 37th Annual Locus Awards ballot for best Non-Fiction book of 2006.

If you've read Myths and enjoyed it, then please consider voting for it; I and the other contributors would be most grateful.

THE BEST OF PHILIP JOSE FARMER is also listed on the ballot for Best Single-Author Collection, so be sure to vote for that as well.

Be sure to also give props to Chris Roberson and the other MonkeyBrain Books titles, and consider a vote for Myths contributor Chris Carey's former Writing Popular Fiction mentor, Tobias Buckell, who is up for Best First Novel for CRYSTAL RAIN.

Anyone can vote. Please post this on your blogs, forward to friends and family, etc, ASAP. And ask them to vote and forward it on.

https://secure.locusmag.com/2007/2007PollAndSurvey.html

Best,

Win

MYTHS makes Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading: 2006

I've very pleased to note that Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe made the Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading List for 2006. The list will appear in the February issue.

Continuing the Farmerian trend, The Best of Philip José Farmer was also listed.

Props also to Chris Roberson, publisher of Myths for the Modern Age, for his own mentions and the other MonkeyBrain titles!