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Post by the paperback fanatic on Sept 5, 2015 20:15:47 GMT
Paperbacks with hand covers Will try and upload Tarottown, Bruce Jones, Star Witchbane, Robert Neill, Arrow Frankenstein, Arrow, 1973 The Second Arrow Book of Horror Stories Frighteners, Mary Danby, Fontana, 1974 The Left Handed Book, Michael Barsley, Pan The Victim, George Scarman Badgers- Death Has Two Faces, Fanthorpe The Forbidden, Leo Brett Out of the Night, John E Muller
Story wise , Bianca's Hands by Ted Sturgeon is a classic
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Apr 28, 2015 12:30:40 GMT
Thanks so far - I really wasn't expecting such a quick and useful set of responses. (Make your mind up which one of the two I wasn't expecting!)
Anything is fair game (see what I did there?) as long as it's not a conventional hunting story. So all the most dangerous game derivatives should be, in my eyes anyway, included.
Please keep 'em coming.
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Apr 28, 2015 8:55:13 GMT
Building an article for The Paperback Fanatic on books and stories with a theme of hunting. Below is my list to date. Any suggestions/additions very welcome. At this stage it's definitely more SF based, so especially keen for horror titles.
There's one that can't remember the title of - a social climber is delighted to receive an invite to the hunt from the ruling elite and turns up in his finest attire, but gets a nasty surprise. The reader doesn't, but the class war theme and its nasty edge makes it memorable all the same. But not the title.
Sound of Thunder, Ray Bradbury
A Gun for Dinosaur, L Sprague De Camp
Name Your Tiger, Milton Lesser
The Hunted Ones, Mack Reynolds
Impractical Joke, Lyon Sprague de Camp
Day of the Hunters, Isaac Asimov
Arena, Fredric Brown
Hands of Zaroff,
The Sound of his Horn, Sarban
The Seventh Victim, Robert Sheckley
Gerry Carlyle series by Arthur K Barnes
Winthorp was Stubborn, William Tenn
Come, Hunt an Earthman, Philip E High
The Prize of Peril, Robert Sheckley
Killer, David Drake and Karl Edward Wagner
The Day The Monsters Broke Loose, Robert Silverberg
Home is the Hunter, Moore and Kuttner
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Nov 1, 2014 21:44:10 GMT
I've just heard from a reliable source that Michel passed away this morning. Gutted.
He never really let on quite how ill he was. A really super, genuine guy who was very generous with his time. Hugely supportive of The Paperback Fanatic and Bedabbled!.
Michel, please post that this is misinformation and that all is well....
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Apr 1, 2014 8:55:02 GMT
Algernon,
As a zine publisher I have a few thoughts in response to your post, which might suggest some possible reasons for Martin's approach with Bedabbled!
Bedabbled! is a hobby, not a business or a career move. Fanzines tend to break even at best. Printing a 48 page A4 colour magazine is expensive. Printers want paying in 28 days. Martin possibly didn't have a bottomless pit of money to print lots of copies without knowing if they would sell. So he printed a number they he knew he would sell and used that money to pay the printers bill. By talking this approach he's not sat on unsold stock with a printers bill to subsidise from his own pocket. He offered it for pre-orders, so anyone wanting a copy only had to send him the money to be guaranteed a copy. Stock sold to Hemlock would be at cost to Martin (at best), so why not order it direct from Martin and offer your support to him directly? That sort of support is the bed-rock for any fanzine.
Not speaking on Martin's behalf so I could be wrong. But just wanted to put over an alternative view.
Justin. Secretary of the Fanzines Worker Party
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