Edited by Christopher Mills, art by Vatche Mavlian, cover by Richard Clark.
Born in the blazing crucible of war, but sworn to fight for peace, the mysterious obsidian aviator known only by the codename Captain Midnight... flies again!
An ace pilot, super secret agent, and astounding scientific genius, the heroic Captain Midnight returns when we need him most, along with his legendary Secret Squadron -- to battle spies, saboteurs and the mercenary armies of the evil warmonger Ivan Shark and his delectably deadly daughter, Fury. Join the Captain and his elite air warriors in eleven all-new stories by some of the greatest adventure writers in the world, as they battle evil and fight for freedom all over the world!
Featuring my tale "Captain Midnight at Ultima Thule"!
CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT CHRONICLESis solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24th). The Diamond Item Code is MAR101067 (Softcover). The Diamond Item Code is MAR101068 (Limited Hardcover).
"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.
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, Pacifica, Xavier Mauméjean’s award-winning novel The League of Heroes, and Philippe Ward’s contemporary horror thriller, Artahe.
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.
Edited by Christopher Mills, art by Vatche Mavlian, cover by Richard Clark.
