Book Hauls!

[murphy]

Ordered:

Down Home Zombie Blues by Linnea Sinclair
Endless Blue by Wen Spencer
Heart of Stone by C. E. Murphy
Farthing by Jo Walton
Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente

[AE35Unit]

2 more thru the post,BRAIN WAVE by Potl Anderson and THE CANOPY OF TIME at Aldiss(i was under the impression that the UK Title of this one is Galaxies like Grains of Sand but mine is a UK copy!)

[j. d. worthington]

Got a couple more in the mail (well, three, actually....):

a duplicate copy of Strange Eons, by Robert Bloch
Echoes of Valor III, ed. by Karl Edward Wagner (pursuant to discussions about Kuttner's S&S in the Howard thread)
and (YAY!) a replacement copy of Always Comes Evening, a book of horrific and fantastic verse by Robert E. Howard (Underwood-Miller edition)....

[elvet]

Carol Berg's Flesh and Spirit and Martha Grimes Dust.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

Echoes of Valor III, ed. by Karl Edward Wagner (pursuant to discussions about Kuttner's S&S in the Howard thread)

What's that cover?

[AE35Unit]

2 more classics,thanks to ian
Alfred Bester's THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH and Poul Anderson's CONQUESTS
I'm a bit annoyed with our crappy postman tho,he left them on the doorstep and didn't knock! Good thing its not raining!

Oh and if you're reading this ian,books received with thank(bookmooch not working for me this morning)

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

What's that cover?

Eh? You mean the cover art, or the contents? (Frankly, I find the cover art on this one quite generic and forgettable, but the contents are quite another thing....)

Just received Savage Heroes, ed. by Michel Parry....

[Talysia]

I'm feeling quite pleased with myself. I found Lian Hearn's Heaven's Net is Wide in a charity shop for only 49p this afternoon - hardback and looks brand new.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

Eh? You mean the cover art, or the contents? (Frankly, I find the cover art on this one quite generic and forgettable, but the contents are quite another thing....)

I meant the contents.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

I meant the contents.

Robert E. Howard:
"The Shadow of the Vulture"

Henry Kuttner:
"Cursed Be the City"
"The Citadel of Darkness"

Manly Wade Wellman:
"Holk Goes to Atlantis"

Jack Williamson:
"Wolves of Darkness"

Nictzin Dyalhis:
"Nictzin Dyalhis: Mysterious Master of Fantasy", by Sam Moskowitz
"The Red Witch"
"The Sapphire Goddess"
"The Sea-Witch"

[GOLLUM]

Sounds good BUT never heard of Nictzin Dyalhis????? Where does this person fit into the grand scheme of SFF and what content and style do they write in? If worth pursuing can you recommend a good collection of their work?

[GOLLUM]

Gotta go but a quick google revealed the following publisher plans to put out all the work by that author, no idea on a time frame....

Midnight House

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

Gotta go but a quick google revealed the following publisher plans to put out all the work by that author, no idea on a time frame....

Midnight House

I hate to say this, but... I wouldn't hold my breath. Pelan's schedule seems to be seriously awry lately, and it may be a very long time. (On the other hand, one can always be surprised.) I will, however, give kudos for beautiful editions to Midnight House/Darkside Press books, as well as for bringing some of the lesser-known figures from the pulps and the supernatural field back into print.

I personally am not a big fan of Dyalhis' work, but for those interested:

Nictzin Dyalhis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[AE35Unit]

Interesting link there j.d. I'd not heard of him either(wonder if he's in the huge Encyclopedia of Science Fiction)
I'd say a collection of his stories would go down well. Seems he may have been the first one to use the word blaster!

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by AE35Unit

Interesting link there j.d. I'd not heard of him either(wonder if he's in the huge Encyclopedia of Science Fiction)
I'd say a collection of his stories would go down well. Seems he may have been the first one to use the word blaster!

He may be; I've not looked through the thing since I had access to a copy at the bookstore I worked at a few years ago, and I wasn't looking up Dyalhis at that point.

I'm not entirely sure how well his work would go down currently... but, given that there's a certain amount of interest in the earlier sff writers (enough to make keep several small presses -- and PODs -- turning out their stuff), and that his sf is very much in the Burroughsian vein (though with something less of the verve and spark), they just might.