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ANITA by Keith Roberts, Owlswick Press, 1990 This is the 59th in my series of Forgotten Books. Six months ago I wrote about PAVANE by Keith Roberts and lamented that he was underappreciated and pretty well unknown in the US. Not much has changed in the six month period. But the other day I was [Read it all...] CAT’S CRADLE by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963 This is the 58th in my series of Forgotten Books. The other day when preparing my Forgotten Film column on ATTACK OF THE 50 FT. WOMAN I wrote about some of the process used to select the titles I discuss. This week’s book is hardly “forgotten” since it has [Read it all...] THE BEST OF RANDALL GARRETT by Randall Garrett, 1982, Timescape This is the 57th in my series of Forgotten Books. I have been intending to do a Randall Garrett book in the Forgotten Books for some time. I keep looking at the Lord Darcy series on the shelf and thinking that they would be a [Read it all...] TUNNEL IN THE SKY by Robert A. Heinlein, 1955, Scribners This is the 56th in my series of Forgotten Books. It seems hard for me to list a Robert Heinlein novel as Forgotten but with the attention given to YA books it seems to be so. The book is available as a trade paperback. Yet [Read it all...] TEXAS AND OTHER PLANETS by Lou Antonelli, 2010, Merry Blacksmith Press This is the 55th in my series of Forgotten Books. This is not so much a Forgotten Book as a totally ignored book. Lou Antonelli is a transplanted Yankee of Italian descent. He moved to Texas a long time ago and married a Texas [Read it all...] THE OWL SERVICE by Alan Garner, 1967, William Collins Sons (UK), Henry Z. Walck (US) 1968 This is the 54th in my series of Forgotten Books. As proof that children’s fantasy writers do not get their due in the US, I offer up this week’s title. Alan Garner has been writing fine fantasies for more [Read it all...] SHADOWS IN THE SUN by Chad Oliver, 1954, Ballantine Books This is the 53rd in my series of Forgotten Books. Last week I mentioned that Jack Williamson was the Guest of Honor at the very first science fiction convention I ever attended. One of the other guests was Chad Oliver. He was also the first [Read it all...] 
Golden Blood by Jack Williamson, 1933, Weird Tales, 1978, Tamerlane Press This is the 52nd in my series of Forgotten Books. 'Golden Blood' by Jack Williamson This last weekend was Memorial Day and Half Price Books, as they will frequently do, had a big sale. Looking through the collectibles case, I found my old [Read it all...] The Unnatural by David Prill, 1995, St. Martin’s Press This is the 51st in my series of Forgotten Books. The Unnatural by David Prill This book is about as far to the other side of the spectrum as you can get from last week’s book. THE UNNATURAL is pretty well a unique idea in [Read it all...] The Space Willies by Eric Frank Russell, 1958, Ace Books This is the 50th in my series of Forgotten Books. So this week’s book was new to me. I’ve had a copy of it for years but never got around to reading. But since I commented on Eric Frank Russell when doing Adventures in Time [Read it all...] |
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