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Post by timothymayer on Oct 20, 2009 19:32:25 GMT
I really love this board, just wish I had more time to spend reading it. I've been a big fan of the British paperbacks every since a little book shop near my home town started carrying "imported" paperbacks. I fell in love with all the neat watercolor covers on the Michael Moore fantasy editions. This must have been in 1975. Then a few other places near where I lived began getting the Neville Spearman Clark Ashton Smith reprints. But what did it for me was a trip to Canada the next year where I picked up some Birikin collections: SO PALE SO COLD SO FAIR, etc. Anyway, keep up the excellent work. I had no idea there were biker and skinhead novels sold in the UK.
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Post by timothymayer on Oct 20, 2009 19:26:28 GMT
Now I'll have to find that issue, which probably won't be too easy on this side of the big pond.
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Post by timothymayer on Oct 20, 2009 2:48:07 GMT
*cough*cough* gag*gag* 1700? How much? I really need to check back here more often. I did manage to get one of limited edition reprints of ECHO OF A CURSE, but SUBJUGATED is really our of my price range.
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Post by timothymayer on Apr 10, 2009 0:12:26 GMT
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Post by timothymayer on Mar 16, 2009 4:15:01 GMT
I really do need to order one of these things. PulpMania was a hoot! Loved the British take on the Gor novels.
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Post by timothymayer on Mar 16, 2009 4:06:20 GMT
Wonderful. I'm just learning about it now.
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Post by timothymayer on Mar 16, 2009 4:04:54 GMT
Since I don't have enough projects on my plate, I decided some time ago to start a reading blog. The latest entry can be viewed here: z7hq.blogspot.com/2009/03/vampires-overhead-by-alan-hyder.htmlSome of what I'm reviewing will be familiar to the readers of this board, some may be new. It started as an "Operator 5" blog, but rapidly mutated into what ever I wanted to read. Right now, I'm working my way through Karl E Wagner's 1983 essential list of horror novels. I do love this board. It has broadened my understanding of the paperback phenomena world-wide. Years ago, I could only find the books you love on trips to Canada, or occasional finds at used book stores.
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Post by timothymayer on Jul 7, 2008 16:27:21 GMT
Spectros? Did someone say Spectros? I fished a weird western out of the trash that had to do with a magical gunfighter by that name.
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Post by timothymayer on Jul 7, 2008 1:57:02 GMT
Thinks for triggering that memory. Read this book over 30 years ago. I bought it because the cover had a painting of a girl which resembled someone I knew.
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Post by timothymayer on Jul 7, 2008 0:17:56 GMT
Excellent book. S & S at their best.
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Post by timothymayer on Jul 7, 2008 0:15:02 GMT
KEW fan that I am, I have somehow missed this book.
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Post by timothymayer on Jul 7, 2008 0:09:10 GMT
Got my first rush of Birkin in 1976. I was on vacation in Canada and found a copy of SO PALE SO COLD SO FAIR. I had no idea what I was in for...
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Post by timothymayer on Jul 6, 2008 21:35:47 GMT
I was able to find a 1920's edition of both THE MANDRAKE and THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE in academic libraries. Each had the most beautiful illustrations. I'm still looking for THE VAMPIRE. I suppose a number of his other books have made it into English. There's a Yahoo! group dedicated to him, but it seems idle at the moment.
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Post by timothymayer on Jul 6, 2008 21:28:25 GMT
Hello from the other side of the pond. I ordered this wonderful edition when it first came out. Love the article on John Norman, althought the graphics made it hard to read. Many, many novels and genres this Yank had never encountered? CHOPPER? Skinhead books? Guess we in the colonies missed these things.
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Post by timothymayer on Jul 6, 2008 21:15:17 GMT
This author has managed to elude me for 25 years, every since I saw the name on a "Best Of" list. Now I see there is one expensive reprint of ECHO OF A CURSE. Has anyone had the opportunity to read any of his books? I'm told they fetch astronomical prices when they do turn up.
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