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Forgotten Book: JACKETS REQUIRED by Steven Heller & Seymour Chwast

Scott A. Cupp — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:28:30 +0000

This is the 12th in my series of Forgotten Books

Jackets Required by Steven Heller & Seymour Chwast

I thought I might take a quick break from my reveries of the 1960’s and the new wave that have been present during the last [Read it all...]

Forgotten Book: NOVA by Samuel R. Delany

Scott A. Cupp — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:00:13 +0000

This is the 11th in my series of Forgotten Books

Nova - First Edition

This week Patti Abbott, the organizer of the Forgotten Books blogs across the country, asked the various bloggers to talk about books that were special to them in the period of 18 – 23 [Read it all...]

Forgotten Book: THE RAKEHELLS OF HEAVEN by John Boyd

Scott A. Cupp — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:30:30 +0000

This is the 10th in my series of Forgotten Books

The Rakehells of Heaven paperback

THE RAKEHELLS OF HEAVEN (TROH) was John Boyd’s third novel, following THE LAST STARSHIP FROM EARTH (TLSFE) and THE POLLINATORS OF EDEN (TPOE). To me, as a mild-mannered [Read it all...]

Forgotten Book: VERMILION SANDS by J. G. Ballard

Scott A. Cupp — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:59:15 +0000

This is the 9th in my series of Forgotten Books

J.G. Ballard - Vermilion Sands

When J. G. Ballard died last year at age 78, it was painful to me. I had discovered his work while still a teenager in the Judith Merrill’s YEAR’S [Read it all...]

Forgotten Book: LISA KANE by Richard Lupoff

Scott A. Cupp — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:30:39 +0000

This is the 8th in my series of Forgotten Books

Lisa Kane by Richard Lupoff

Richard Lupoff is a Renaissance man. He has written about comics in the 1960’s with his seminal ALL IN COLOR FOR A DIME. He was an editor at Canaveral Press [Read it all...]

Forgotten Book: A Mirror For Observers by Edgar Pangborn

Scott A. Cupp — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:32:11 +0000

A Mirror for Observers by Edgar Pangborn

This is the 7th in my series of Forgotten Books

There is a story about Edgar Pangborn that says Theodore Sturgeon was helping H. L. Gold out on night reading the slush pile for Galaxy magazine. He read [Read it all...]

Forgotten Book: The Lovecraft Papers by P. H. Cannon

Scott A. Cupp — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:20:54 +0000

This is the 6th in my series of Forgotten Books

PH Cannon has played fast and furious with literary characters and real writers in this collection of one novella, three short stories, and an essay. Initially the stories were published in two volumes [Read it all...]

Forgotten Books: The Orphan by Robert Stallman

Scott A. Cupp — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:09:40 +0000

The Orphan by Robert Stallman

This is the 5th in my series of Forgotten Books

This review is going to sound a little like a rerun of my BLIND VOICES review of a couple of weeks ago. The novel is set in a rural 1930’s America [Read it all...]

Forgotten Book: The Spider vs the Empire State by Norvell Page

Scott A. Cupp — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:00:27 +0000

This is the 4th in my series of Forgotten Books

The Spider vs. the Empire State by Norvell W. Page, © 2009 trade paperback, Age of Aces Books. For those who love to read pulp superhero novels, there is no further introduction required other than to say this volume features three linked novels featuring Richard Wentworth, The Spider, [Read it all...]

Forgotten Book: A VAMPIRE NAMED FRED by Bill Crider

Scott A. Cupp — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:30:17 +0000

This is the 3rd in my series of Forgotten Books

"A Vampire Named Fred" by Bill Crider

A VAMPIRE NAMED FRED by Bill Crider (1990, Maggie Books) It’s hard to think of Bill Crider as having a Forgotten Book. I mean, the man is everywhere. His blog, BILL CRIDER’s POP CULTURE MAGAZINE, [Read it all...]