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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 14, 2010 23:55:23 GMT
Do you have a link to the GNS board please? I'd be interested to read what's happened. cheers KC Here y'go: guynsmith.proboards.com/index.cgiGo to the 'Guy's Books' thread - and there's plenty of other information on the past couple of years in Smithland that you may find interesting... But the future's brighter now...
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 14, 2010 10:48:41 GMT
Hello all.
No, it's not coming out. GWP have removed the artwork and all links to it on their website.
It might be released in the near future by this Aswang Press, who knows? Perhaps they'll release the back catalogue in digital format one day also.
One thing's for certain - GWP aren't bringing out any of Guy's works now.
Go to the GNS board for more info...
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Post by steppedonwolf on May 5, 2009 19:56:57 GMT
I have a scan of the original cover, as FD knows. As soon as I can find a decent image hosting site that doesn't try to screw me up and shout out "OH THAT'S 3Megapixeys" when it's quite clearly only TWO Corny Piskies, it'll be posted here very soon. Right, here we go. Fingers crossed... <a href='http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/196981440e_4.58MB'>http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/196981440e_4.58MB</a>
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Post by steppedonwolf on May 1, 2009 23:13:31 GMT
I have a scan of the original cover, as FD knows.
As soon as I can find a decent image hosting site that doesn't try to screw me up and shout out "OH THAT'S 3Megapixeys" when it's quite clearly only TWO Corny Piskies, it'll be posted here very soon.
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 26, 2009 16:21:49 GMT
Thanks for those, FD.
Strange for him to vanish off the radar like that. Anyone know if he had some spats with his publishers, or did he do a Bob McCammon and decide to retire?
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 26, 2009 16:15:02 GMT
Just picked these up at a secondhand bookshop in Cambridge... Return of the Werewolf - Guy N. Smith (NEL) Tigerman of Terrahpur - Errol Lecale (NEL) ( Just reading about this in Paperback Fanatic No. 9) The Apocalypse - Jeffrey Konvitz (NEL) Lupe - Gene Thompson (Futura) Eat Them Alive - Pierce Nace (NEL) The Stigma - Trevor Hoyle (Sphere) The Wrath - David Robbins (BMI) The Howling II: The Return - Gary Brandner (Arrow) The Howling III: Echoes - Gary Brandner (Hamlyn) Croc - David James (NEL) ...as well as a couple of pulpy non-horrors... Slave Empire - Norman Gant (Mews) Edge 7: California Killing - George G. Gilman (NEL) Not bad for half an hour's browsing. Sorry, Fendahl, I had the best ever haul. Seven years ago, when I still live in Cambridge I found SIGNED copies of The Ghoul, The Resurrected, first edition Cannibals and Pluto Pact in the normally-overpriced Oxfam in Burleigh street! I just wonder who donated them... Hats off to you for finding Mantis-classic Eat Them Alive, though. Which shop was this?
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 26, 2009 15:21:53 GMT
I remember you saying in GR some time ago that it would have been better for Sphere to go ahead with the original release date with the (admittedly, much poorer) cover. As such, the delay meant the book wasn't the bestseller it could - and should - have been.
Would it have sold better with the weaker cover? What else was going through the Sphere execs minds?
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 25, 2009 13:30:16 GMT
Anyone knows what happened to Steve Harris? He was a great writer in the 1990s, as anyone who read Hoodoo Man and Angels will know. His last book, Straker's Island was released in 1998. Miami Five-Fifteen never materialised. So...what's happened to him?
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 25, 2009 13:23:52 GMT
1) Warhead - the definitive 80s nuclear nightmare novel 2) Dead End - a real departure, one of GNS' most original novels. A hidden treasure 3) The Island - for using a double-narrative and of course THAT ending. 4) Killer Crabs - I know I'm on my own in this, but I still think it's the best of the crab books and the most cinematic. 5) Anything with Sabat in - the GNS answer to Mack Bolan (The Executioner)!
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 25, 2009 13:20:17 GMT
One of the things that really stuck with me was the idea that a sound could be made that deafness was no protecion from.
The title of chapter 5 sends a shiver down my spine to this day...
THE DEAF HEAR ;D
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 25, 2009 13:09:49 GMT
My first ever GNS book. There were alot of raised eyebrows when I took it into school.
Yes, primary school. With the regular "read out loud to the class a part from the book you're reading". Guess which part I read out...
Happy days!
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 25, 2009 13:04:54 GMT
Good fun, this book. I just wonder how the residents of Sutton felt about being portrayed as torch-and-pitchfork-wielding superstitious peasants! Mind you, if you've been to East Anglia...
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 25, 2009 12:57:35 GMT
Always enjoyed this one. Like Wolfcurse this is an underrated book.
Shame both editions have such feeble covers, though.
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 25, 2009 12:52:11 GMT
Fiend is hard to beat. I kid you not, I didn't buy the book for a long time because the cover scared me so much!
A few years ago I was in the Haunted House attraction in Alton Towers and what did I see? A framed close up of the Fiend cover. Not sure if it's still there, but even so...
KESCHEV LIVES!
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 25, 2009 12:46:53 GMT
This is one of the best werewolf books ever written.
It works so well because it's more of a psychological thriller, it implies that the lycanthropy is all in Ray's mind - a real departure from GNS' previous werewolf outings.
Shame it's not as well-regarded, but as all GNS fans know there are some real hidden treasures he's produced that would appeal to a wider market. The same people who turned their noses up at the thought of giant crabs would reconsider their opinion of Guy if they read this - as well as Dead End and The Island.
By the way - the best werewolf novel ever written? Got to be The Wolf's Hour, by Robert McCammon.
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