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Sunday, February 21, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
A new Philip José Farmer collection!
Subterranean Press has announced a new collection of short tales by the master, Philip José Farmer!
Up the Bright River, edited by Gary K. Wolfe, is slated for a December 2010 release. Rejoice!
Up the Bright River, edited by Gary K. Wolfe, is slated for a December 2010 release. Rejoice!
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Planet Stories lands Moorcock and Lansdale!
It's been far too long since I blogged about Planet Stories , but their latest announcement regarding a Planet Stories Double Feature with Michael Moorcock and Joe R. Lansdale gives me chance to rectify that!Check out the news from Planet Stories editor Christopher Paul Carey's blog.
As if that weren't enough they've had a couple other great recent releases:
- Steppe, by Piers Anthony, with an introduction by Chris Roberson
- The Ship of Ishtar, by A. Merritt, with an introduction by Tim Powers
- plus great classics from C.L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, Henry Kuttner, and more
- Battle in the Dawn: The Complete Hok the Mighty, by Manly Wade Wellman with an introduction by David Drake
- Who Fears the Devil?—The Complete Silver John, by Manly Wade Wellman, with an introduction by Mike Resnick
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
CROSSOVERS 1....
.... coming into the home stretch, I swear!
With thanks to eager readers and my publisher Black Coat Press for their patience....
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Monday, February 08, 2010
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Ltd ed of THE EVIL IN PEMBERLEY HOUSE sold out
With a mixture of pleasure and wistfulness, I note that the limited edition of The Evil in Pemberley House is now sold out.
Trade editions still available, of course:
* Direct from Subterranean Press
* Amazon.com
* Barnes&Noble.com
* Tor.com
* Borders.com
* Camelot Books
Saturday, February 06, 2010
Burroughs Bulletin #81: Philip José Farmer tribute issue
As my friend Christopher Paul Carey notes:"The Burroughs Bulletin has dedicated an entire issue in tribute to Philip José Farmer, which is now shipping. The issue includes my [Chris'] article "Philip José Farmer and ERB: A Shared Mythography," surveying, of course, Phil's literary intersections with Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Table of Contents:
Editor's Preface
"Philip José Farmer's Tarzan Alive"
by Win Scott Eckert
"Philip José Farmer and ERB: A Shared Mythography"
by Christopher Paul Carey
"Philip José Farmer's ERB-Related Work"
by Henry G. Franke III
"Philip José Farmer's Incarnations of Tarzan"
by Henry G. Franke III
Picture Gallery: Boris Vallejo's The Mad King
"Burroughs and Himself: A Study of The Mad King"
by David Arthur Adams
"Some Thoughts On Tarzan and the Lost City"
by Kim L. Neideigh
"Joe R. Lansdale On Tarzan: The Lost Adventure"
by Henry G. Franke III
Bibliographer's Corner
by Septimus Favonius
Letters to the Editor
To inquire about ordering this issue or for subscription information, see the Burroughs Bulletin contact information here. "
My own piece is a reprint of the new Foreword I wrote for the 2006 edition of Tarzan Alive, with a short new coda. If you have that, you should sill pick up the issue for all the other great articles and features.
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Monday, February 01, 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010
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Friday, January 29, 2010
BLACK COAT PRESS LAUNCHES AMBITIOUS “BEST OF FRENCH SCIENCE FICTION” PROGRAM
BLACK COAT PRESS LAUNCHES AMBITIOUS
“BEST OF FRENCH SCIENCE FICTION” PROGRAM
This month, Black Coat Press is launching an extensive program of translations of both classic and contemporary works of French science fiction and fantasy, spearheaded by award-winning writer and translator Brian Stableford, under the editorship of Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier.
At the top of the list of titles to be released in 2010 are a five-volume series of works by Maurice Renard and a six-volume series of works by J.-H. Rosny Aîné, best known to English-speaking audiences for The Hands of Orlac and Quest for Fire, respectively. More classic works by André Couvreur, Henri Falk, Jules Lermina, Gustave Le Rouge, José Moselli, Han Ryner, and Jacques Spitz are currently in the planning stage.
Contemporary authors to be translated include Kurt Steiner (a.k.a. André Ruellan), G.-J. Arnaud, Richard Bessière, André Caroff and P.-J. Hérault. New editions of previously translated works by Gérard Klein and Michel Jeury are also planned.
In total, over two dozen new translations will be released during 2010, an unprecedented effort in the history of genre publishing.
Among the proto- and golden age French science fiction classics already released by Black Coat Press are such significant works as Félix Bodin’s The Novel of the Future (1834), Didier de Chousy’s Ignis (1883), C.I. Defontenay’s Star-Psi Cassiopeia (1854), Charles Derennes’ The People of the Pole (1907), Arthur Galopin’s Doctor Omega (1906), Octave Joncquel & Théo Varlet’s The Martian Epic (1921), Jean de La Hire’s Nyctalope novels (1911-21), Georges Le Faure & Henri de Graffigny’s The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist across the Solar System (1888-96), Gustave Le Rouge’s The Vampires of Mars (1908), Jules Lermina’s Panic in Paris (1910), Henri de Parville’s An Inhabitant of the Planet Mars (1865), Gaston de Pawlowski’s Journey to the Land of the 4th Dimension (1912), Albert Robida’s The Adventures of Saturnin Farandoul (1879) and The Clock of the Centuries (1902), as well as two collections of Villiers de l’Isle-Adam stories, two collections of the pulp hero adventures of Sâr Dubnotal and Harry Dickson, and two anthologies of ground-breaking proto-SF stories by Brian Stableford.
Contemporary works include two collections by Jean-Claude Dunyach, The Night Orchid and The Thieves of Silence, a collection of stories by Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier,
Since its inception in the summer of 2003, Black Coat Press has been the foremost publisher of French science fiction and crime thrillers in the English-language.
A division of Hollywood Comics.com, LLC, Black Coat Press, named after Paul Féval’s seminal 19th century crime thriller saga The Black Coats, which it publishes, is a Encino, CA-based small press publisher whose products are listed on the Bowker’s Books in Print â index and Publishers Authority Database. Its books are produced by Lightning Source, a subsidiary of Ingram Industries, Inc.
Black Coat Press e-mail: info@blackcoatpress.com
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
Wold Newton wikipedia corrections continue...
Sean Levin continues his fine series correcting misinformation regarding Wold Newton mythology. Many thanks, Sean!
Friday, January 22, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
THE EVIL IN PEMBERLEY HOUSE ltd ed half off in Subterranean Press eBay sale
Subterranean Press has listed several copies of the limited edition of The Evil in Pemberley House on their eBay store -- half price!
If you've been waiting to get a limited edition... you probably shouldn't wait much longer...
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Philip José Farmer's DOC SAVAGE and Dave Stevens' THE ROCKETEER and CROSSOVERS
Philip José Farmer's Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life was the starting point for my lifelong fascination with Farmer's Wold Newton Family concept of many popular characters belonging to the same, widespread genealogical family, Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer was the impetus for the idea of the Wold Newton Universe (many more characters inhabiting the same continuity, but not necessarily related to the Wold Newton Family members), and was literally the very first entry in what now is Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World.I've picked up a lot of books from Phil's estate since his unfortunate passing last year, most of them signed by Phil and most of them related to his Wold Newton mythos. Some have been non-PJF books, inscribed to Phil, such as a copy of the British edition of Bunduki signed by J.T. Edson to Phil, and a hardback of Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker's Poodle Springs, signed by Parker to Phil and Bette.
So when Mike Croteau wrote me last night asking if I'd like a hardcover of the Eclipse Comics edition of Stevens' Rocketeer graphic novel (collecting the first storyline which features an unnamed appearance of Doc Savage and his aides), signed "For Philip José Farmer, With Great Respect, Dave Stevens"... let's just say he had me at "hello."
This one is particularly special for me.
Friday, January 15, 2010
More Wold Newton and Wikipedia corrections...
Sean Levin continues his rehabilitation to the misinformation which continues to be perpetuated on the Internet, and particularly wikipedia, regarding Wold Newton mythology. Wold Newton writers, "Game" players, and general fans of the Wold Newton Family and Universe should rejoice at his detailed work:
Short essay publication
Somehow blogging about this slipped past me, but I wrote a short tribute to Philip José Farmer's contributions to the overarching Doc Savage canon and mythology in the program book for Doc Con XII, The Big Book of Bronze #2 (published November 2009).
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