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Other Worlds, Other Gods
finished "other worlds, other gods" a '71 short story collection focusing on religion in science fiction. lots of it is real pulpy, with only the slightest hints of new wave shining through (mostly via john brunner), but its some good pulp. not a long or heavy read, only a day or two.
most of the stories were from the late 50s and early 60s, with a few from the 40s and late 60s. highlights include lee suttons soul mate, john brunners the vitanuls, anthony bouchers the quest for saint aquin, and damon knights shall the dust praise thee.
i would recommend it with the caveat that theres nothing super weird, unfortunately (which would be my main criticism). it mostly stuck to christianity (primarily catholicism!) and pastiches of such, with a few jewish cameos and one of hinduism and buddhism each. no alien religions, really. weirdest one was definitely soul mate. nothing ubik-level, lol.
side-note if any of my followers is more learned in hinduism: id be curious about your reading of the vitanuls; im not sure how accurate of a representation it is, being written by a brit, but it seems decent enough? i have very little knowledge of the religion, though, and am supremely unconfident saying that.
#literature#scifi#new wave#short story#short stories#review#john brunner#arthur c clarke#anthony boucher#damon knight#lee sutton#pulp sci fi#pulp science fiction#pulp art#aliens#religion#i would have tagged this with bookblr but from what i can tell that tag is comprised#entirely of people taking dark academia pictures#lol
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Shoutout to Dee at the county library who just helped me find the werewolf short story I've been trying to find again for over five years, you're a real one.
It was 'The Compleat Werewolf' by Anthony Boucher, coincidentally also free as part of project Gutenberg! It's so much goddamn fun. It's about Professor Wolfe Wolf who gets dumped by his girlfriend, gets drunk with a wizard who teaches him how to turn into a wolf, and spends the next few weeks trying to figure out how this will help him get his girlfriend back. Did I mention he solves crimes?
Anyway, read it right now! It's free! No one can stop you!
https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/bouchera-compleatwerewolf/bouchera-compleatwerewolf-00-h.html
#werewolf#werewolves#the compleat werewolf#short stories#books & libraries#public libraries#support libraries#anthony boucher
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PILGRIMAGE: THE BOOK OF THE PEOPLE by Zenna Henderson (Garden City, Doubleday, 1961) Cover art by Mel Hunter. // (London: Gollancz, 1962)
PILGRIMAGE is a ‘fix-up novel’ of Henderson’s first six stories about The People, a society whose members control special psychic abilities. The stories premiered separately in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher, and were later “refurbished” into the longer form.
“Ararat” — October, 1952
“Gilead” — August, 1954
“Pottage” — September, 1955
“Wilderness” — January 1957
“Captivity” — June, 1958
“Jordan” — March, 1959
“Wilderness”, January 1957. Cover by Paul Blaisdell. // “Captivity”, June 1958. Cover by Mel Hunter.
(New York: Avon, 1965) Cover by Neil Boyle. // (London: Panther, 1965) Cover by Michael Leonard. // (New York: Avon, 1965) Cover by Hector Garrido.
#book blog#books#books books books#book cover#pulp art#science fiction#science fantasy#zenna henderson#anthony boucher#mel hunter#the people#f&sf#telepathy#telekinesis#prophecy
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Humorous Ghost Stories
Not every ghost story has to be terrifying! Indeed, horror and humor are surprisingly similar modes of writing—both depend on eliciting certain emotional reactions from the reader through carefully timed revelations and unexpected juxtapositions. Horror can all too easily give way into unintentional humor, as any connoisseur of schlocky B-movies can tell you. But that blurred line can also be…
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#Anthony Boucher#Christmas ghost stories#ghost stories#horror#humor#John Kendricks Bangs#oscar wilde#Short stories#The Canterville Ghost#The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall#Ye Goode Olde Ghoste Storie
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RETRO REVIEW –STAR SCIENCE FICTION #2 (1954)
Figure 1 Srar Science Fiction #2 Cover by John Berkey I had planned to review the British (Sky) science fiction series, The Lazarus Project, now about to enter Season 2, for this week; it’s pure SF with only a minimum of technobabble (just enough to enable the premise), but I think I’ll need to devote a lot of thought to how one can review a continuing series without entirely spoiling the whole…
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#"Upstairs#“The Marching Morons”#“The Seventh Victim”#$7.99 (CDN)#A.J. Budrys#Alfred Bester#Amazon.ca#Anthony Boucher#Ballantine Books#Bill Mumy#C. M. Kornbluth#Column 372#copyright 1954#Darker Than You Think#David Duncan#Downstairs"#Downton Abbey#Due South#E.E. Doc Smith#Eight Keys to Eden#Famous Monsters of Filmland#Fletcher Pratt#Forrest J. Ackerman#Frederik Pohl#Galactic Derelict#Groff Conklin#Hal Clement#Harry Stubbs#J. Francis McComas#Jack Williamson
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Otto Penzler has a lot of fucking audacity to insult my dear friend Herlock Sholmes, who I am sure his parents were married when he was born, in this manner.
#Herlock Sholmes#Otto penzler#from the introduction of the book the case of the baker street irregulars by Anthony Boucher#also like the complete disregard for WHY people were doing this#it wasn’t for fun#okay maybe like 25% of it was for fun#the other 75% was because SACD’s estate were being assholes#if they wanted to write about Sherlock they HAD to change the name or run the risk of being sued for copyright infringement#do not blame any of the authors for it#they had no other choice#queue takumi defense squad
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Tim McGraw – Taylor Swift // Portrait of Marie-Joseph Peyre – Marie-Suzanne Giroust 💙 Tim McGraw – Taylor Swift // Lady in the Boudoir – Gustav Holweg-Glantschnigg 💙 A Place in This World – Taylor Swift // Portrait of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester – Jean-Étienne Liotard 💙 Dear John – Speak Now // Young Woman in a Blue Dress – Jacopo Negretti 💙 State of Grace – Red // Portrait of Mrs. Matthew Tilghman and her Daughter – John Hesselius 💙 Red – Red // An Unknown Man – Joseph Highmore 💙 All Too Well – Red // Portrait of a Man with a Quilted Sleeve – Titian 💙 Everything Has Changed – Red // Portrait of the Marquis de Saint-Paul – Jean-Baptiste Greuze 💙 Starlight – Red // Mrs. Richard Brown – John Hesselius 💙 Run – Red // Judith with the Head of Holofernes – Felice Ficherelli 💙 This Love – 1989 // Fair Rosamund – John William Waterhouse 💙 Delicate – Reputation // Miss Elizabeth Ingram – Joshua Reynolds 💙 Gorgeous – Reputation // Marguerite Hessein, Lady of Rambouillet de la Sablière – workshop of Henri and Charles Beaubrun 💙 Dancing with Our Hands Tied – Reputation // George Albert, Prince of East Frisia – Johann Conrad Eichler
Cruel Summer – Lover // Peter August Friedrich von Koskull – Michael Ludwig Claus 💙 Lover – Lover // Lady Oxenden – Joseph Wright of Derby 💙 Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince – Lover // Portrait of Ivan Ivanovich Betskoi – Alexander Roslin 💙 Paper Rings – Lover // Young Woman in a Blue Dress – Jacopo Negretti 💙 London Boy – Lover // Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson – Anthony van Dyck 💙 Afterglow – Lover // Portrait of Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn – Fyodor Rokotov 💙 Christmas Tree Farm – Christmas Tree Farm // Portrait of Mary Ruthven, Lady van Dyck – Anthony van Dyck 💙 invisible string – folklore // Two Altar Wings with the Visitation of Mary – unknown artist 💙 invisible string – folklore // Portrait of Madame de Pompadour – François Boucher 💙 peace – folklore // Fair Rosamund – John William Waterhouse 💙 hoax – folklore // Portrait of Charles le Normant du Coudray – Jean-Baptiste Perronneau 💙 coney island – evermore // Portrait of the Marquis de Saint-Paul – Jean-Baptiste Greuze 💙 Carolina – Carolina // Mrs. Daniel Sargent – John Singleton Copley 💙 Bejeweled – Midnights // Elsa Elisabeth Brahe – David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl 💙 The Great War – Midnights // Portrait of Françoise Marie de Bourbon – attributed to François de Troy 💙 Hits Different – Midnights // Mrs. Benjamin Pickman – John Singleton Copley
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Camille Boucher is her father's favorite daughter. If only he wasn't born in the year 840 and turned into a vampire at the age of 45 during the Siege of Paris. You think your boomer dad isn't very woke? Imagine having one who is older than France. So, being the favorite daughter doesn't amount to much when she has several male siblings. She is, however, the only one of her many siblings who refuses to hunt and kill humans for sustenance and carries great pride in that. It's been 398 years since she's killed a human with her teeth (the bubonic plague made the whole affair very unappetizing).
Despite what you might think, being 425 years old is not easy! You try living through several wars and then see if you're willing to remember them all. Sometimes, facets of Camille's memory spring to mind and she relives the deaths of her mortal friends or lifetimes of her own personal suffering. But, hey, every twenty-something (or those who look like they're in their twenties) has mental issues these days; she's not special. It's better to just put the centuries of trauma on the back-burner most days. She has a relatively easy life otherwise; with her father having dominion over the entire Pacific Northwest, there is very little outside her reach, even if her stupid brothers get to reap most of the lucrative benefits.
Camille's hobbies include: attending college (she has far too many degrees to count, though most of them are in math), looking mysterious at coffee shops, solving puzzles, and conducting independent criminal investigations. She hates cops and avoids them at all costs. Her favorite part of the job is the thrill of investigating a case without being allowed onto the crime scene or access to forensic tools. Keeps the mind sharp.
Her newest undertaking? The Dentona Vampire, a notorious serial killer known for tearing out the throats of their victims (a bad look for the local vampires who'd prefer a more low-key media presence). The Dentona Vampire has been active for about six months now, but Camille has no real leads on who the murderer might be.
That is, until she keeps bumping into the same handsome, long-haired goon who keeps announcing himself publicly as a vampire. He honestly seems too clumsy to be a notorious serial killer, but he's the only interesting thing in her never-ending life at the moment. Even if he can't lead her to a clue about her case, it wouldn't hurt to show him the ropes and teach him how to be a more subtle creature of the night and less of a tacky Anthony Slater-type.*
*Anthony Slater is a fictional vampire and one of the primary love interests in the YA book series, The Crepuscular Saga. Everyone knows he ends up with the girl at the end of the book, but Camille preferred the boyish charm of the werewolf character, Lukas Rust, and secretly wished he'd be the end-game romance.
What's another pet project? She has all the time in the world, and it would be just terrible if her father found out someone was out there telling the humans about the existence of real vampires.
Thank you for reading my massive introduction to my character, Camille Boucher! She was a tricky personality to pin down, but her sense of filial duty and her selfish interest in detective work is the perfect combination to make an overconfident and resentful eldest daughter who refuses to grow up but knows she will never develop into her own if she doesn't. The goon she keeps bumping into is the other protagonist of this work, Bat Valentine. Find out more about him by looking at the "sanguine" tag on my blog.
Some characters that I drew inspiration from for Camille are: Nancy Drew, Annabeth Chase from Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Kaylee Frye from Firefly, Nami from One Piece, and L. Lawliet from Death Note.
#sanguine#oc#character design#original concept#vampire#camille boucher#bat valentine#original character#blood#fiction#writing#comic artist#sketch#bonus version of her in the one piece art style in the upper right corner!#one piece
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Interaction Call for the following starters:
Anthony Williams (Alfred Enoch FC): Anthony just proposed to his long-term girlfriend and was rejected. Your muse is the one who rejected him.
Harmony Jones (Janel Parrish FC): Harmony feels that her marriage is falling apart and she is ready to stop trying. Your muse is the estranged husband.
Garrett Walker (Elliot Fletcher FC): Garrett is reflecting upon the end of his marriage. Your muse is a close person to him.
Aaron Burke (Ben Levin FC): Aaron has recently started a new relationship but just ran into his ex for the first time. Your muse is his ex.
Isaac Boucher (Avan Jogia FC): Isaac is into casual hookups which he is always clear about. Your muse has caught feelings.
Lana Neves (Luisa D'Oliveira FC): Lana recently lost the love of her life and is now going on her first date in a long time. Your muse is trying to pump her up.
#indie rp#indie starter#indie smut rp#indie starters#open indie#indie roleplay#1x1#open starter#indie
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Vietnam War - Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, June 1968
Sourced from: http://natsmusic.net/articles_galaxy_magazine_viet_nam_war.htm
Transcript Below
We the undersigned believe the United States must remain in Vietnam to fulfill its responsibilities to the people of that country.
Karen K. Anderson, Poul Anderson, Harry Bates, Lloyd Biggle Jr., J. F. Bone, Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mario Brand, R. Bretnor, Frederic Brown, Doris Pitkin Buck, William R. Burkett Jr., Elinor Busby, F. M. Busby, John W. Campbell, Louis Charbonneau, Hal Clement, Compton Crook, Hank Davis, L. Sprague de Camp, Charles V. de Vet, William B. Ellern, Richard H. Eney, T. R. Fehrenbach, R. C. FitzPatrick, Daniel F. Galouye, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert M. Green Jr., Frances T. Hall, Edmond Hamilton, Robert A. Heinlein, Joe L. Hensley, Paul G. Herkart, Dean C. Ing, Jay Kay Klein, David A. Kyle, R. A. Lafferty, Robert J. Leman, C. C. MacApp, Robert Mason, D. M. Melton, Norman Metcalf, P. Schuyler Miller, Sam Moskowitz, John Myers Myers, Larry Niven, Alan Nourse, Stuart Palmer, Gerald W. Page, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Lawrence A. Perkins, Jerry E. Pournelle, Joe Poyer, E. Hoffmann Price, George W. Price, Alva Rogers, Fred Saberhagen, George O. Smith, W. E. Sprague, G. Harry Stine (Lee Correy), Dwight V. Swain, Thomas Burnett Swann, Albert Teichner, Theodore L. Thomas, Rena M. Vale, Jack Vance, Harl Vincent, Don Walsh Jr., Robert Moore Williams, Jack Williamson, Rosco E. Wright, Karl Würf.
We oppose the participation of the United States in the war in Vietnam.
Forrest J. Ackerman, Isaac Asimov, Peter S. Beagle, Jerome Bixby, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Lyle G. Boyd, Ray Bradbury, Jonathan Brand, Stuart J. Byrne, Terry Carr, Carroll J. Clem, Ed M. Clinton, Theodore R. Cogswell, Arthur Jean Cox, Allan Danzig, Jon DeCles, Miriam Allen deFord, Samuel R. Delany, Lester del Rey, Philip K. Dick, Thomas M. Disch, Sonya Dorman, Larry Eisenberg, Harlan Ellison, Carol Emshwiller, Philip José Farmer, David E. Fisher, Ron Goulart, Joseph Green, Jim Harmon, Harry Harrison, H. H. Hollis, J. Hunter Holly, James D. Houston, Edward Jesby, Leo P. Kelley, Daniel Keyes, Virginia Kidd, Damon Knight, Allen Lang, March Laumer, Ursula K. LeGuin, Fritz Leiber, Irwin Lewis, A. M. Lightner, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Katherine MacLean, Barry Malzberg, Robert E. Margroff, Anne Marple, Ardrey Marshall, Bruce McAllister, Judith Merril, Robert P. Mills, Howard L. Morris, Kris Neville, Alexei Panshin, Emil Petaja, J. R. Pierce, Arthur Porges, Mack Reynolds, Gene Roddenberry, Joanna Russ, James Sallis, William Sambrot, Hans Stefan Santesson, J. W. Schutz, Robin Scott, Larry T. Shaw, John Shepley, T. L. Sherred, Robert Silverberg, Henry Slesar, Jerry Sohl, Norman Spinrad, Margaret St. Clair, Jacob Transue, Thurlow Weed, Kate Wilhelm, Richard Wilson, Donald A. Wollheim.
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Cover illustration by Richard Powers
#richard powers#1950s#50s#science fiction omnibus#berkley books#paperback#paperbacks#groff conklin#book#books#book cover#book covers#space ships#spaceship#illustration#illustrations#scifi#science fiction#sci fi#arthur c clarke#arthur c. clarke#ray bradbury#john d macdonald#john d. macdonald#anthony boucher#isaac asimov#anthology#cover art
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"Adam Diment is a spy novelist who published four novels between 1967 and 1971. All four are about the adventures of Philip McAlpine whom critic Anthony Boucher described as "an agent who smokes hashish, leads a highly active sex life, kills vividly, uses (or even coins) the latest London slang and still seems a perfectly real (and even oddly likeable) young man rather than a reflected Bond image."
Diment disappeared from public view after his last novel, adding to his cult figure status among fans of 1960s spy novels. According to The Observer, by 1975 Diment was living in Zurich, shunning publicity, and had no plans to write further novels". Info from Wiki
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I kinda posted about this earlier, but everyone should read the Compleat Werewolf by Anthony Boucher (1942) IMMEDIATELY and I'm not kidding.
https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/bouchera-compleatwerewolf/bouchera-compleatwerewolf-00-h.html
Do you like werewolves? Do you like pathetic sopping wet men? Do you like wizards that are so full of whimsy they're practically useless? Do you like stories about fighting nazis? All this and more in this 1942 classic short story.
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JUDGEMENT NIGHT by C.L. Moore (New York: Gnome Press, ) Cover art by Frank Kelly Freas.
Astounding Science-Fiction v31 #6, August 1943 edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover by William Timmins
JUDGEMENT NIGHT by C.L. Moore. Illustrated by A. Williams [Part 1 of 2]
“The Mutant’s Brother” by Fritz Leiber, Jr. Illustrated by F. Kramer
“One-Way Trip” by Anthony Boucher. Illustrated by Kolliker
“Endowment Policy” by Lewis Padgett. Illustrated by Hall
“M 33 in Andromeda” by A.E. van Vogt. Illustrated by A. Williams [Beagle]
“When Is When?” by Malcolm Jameson. Illustrated by F. Kramer [Anachron, Inc.]
(New York: Popular Library, 1965) Cover artist unknown. // [aka LA NUIT DU JUGEMENT] (Paris: J’ai Lu, 1966) Cover art by Wojtek Siudmak.
#book blog#books#books books books#book cover#pulp art#science fiction#science fantasy#beautiful books#c.l. moore#frank kelly freas#gnome press#astounding#william timmons
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Edd Cartier, illustrations for "The Compleat Werewolf" by Anthony Boucher
#werewolf#edd cartier#pulp fiction story#pulp art#pulp illustration#black and white illustration#ink illustration
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