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AEchinoderm
07/31/09

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My Italian grandma would get a kick out of a book titled "Son of Retro Pulp Tales" with an octopus on the cover.
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Grey_Area
07/31/09

@AEchinoderm: I know! In Spanish it's Pulpo, so even closer.
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disatess
07/30/09

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Go out and find "monstrous" it`s a horror collection, make sure you read about the 65 foot Vampire !!!
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gorehound
07/30/09

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Iown around 150 - 200 pulps inmy archives.
you can see some of these here in my personal pulp gallery
http://www.bigmeathammer.com/gallery.htm
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alphanumeric1971
07/30/09

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The moment I read the title I though of Futurama's "Anthologies of Interest!!!"
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SnehalMarten
07/30/09

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I don't see why Fu Manchu couldn't be reworked into something cool. Warren Ellis did it with "Hark" in Planetary.

Although, I would keep the broken English. It's a rare individual who can speak several languages fluently and without an accent.
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Grey_Area
07/30/09

@SnehalMarten: Bad of me to overlook the cool stuff Ellis and Alan Moore have done lately with old pulp tropes. I'd like to read a longer story (dare I say, a non-graphic novel) with a Yellow Peril-type villian in the lead. Deeply bitter over the Opium Wars and Unequal Treaties, he forms a secret army to crush the West. He'd be like Govenor-General Lin Zexu but with less compunction against killing and more about the super-science.

Having an accent doesn't mean broken English. My grandfather spoke fluent English in a beautiful blend of aristocratic Shanghai and 1920s' London, the old boy was educated in that Green and Pleasant Land for economics.

He had no links to the Si Fan as far as I know...
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
07/30/09

@Grey_Area: You should write a story in which he did! Sounds like an awesome guy who easily could have been a Big Boss had he turned to Evil.
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Allen_Richards
07/30/09

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It's been ages since Lansdale has edited an anthology, I want to say at least a decade. I'd have to check my collection, but I'm pretty sure that RAZZORED SADDLES was late 80's/early 90's, and his two western non-fiction books were mid-90's.

Subterranean Press is predominately a small press publisher that caters to the collector's market. It was actually their stranglehold on Lansdale's secondary publications that I was forced to skip a chunk of his work from the last 5 years or so. One just can't keep paying $40-$100 for a book, no matter how much you liked the guy.

Is there any word on a mass market edition?

I was going to suggest that anyone interested actually go to Shocklines.com to order the title, but it appears they are shutting down. A portion of all Joe sales goes to Protect.org, a child protection charity which Joe is an advisory board member, along with Andrew Vachss and The Wachowski Brothers....
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Allen_Richards
07/30/09

@Allen_Richards: a quick scan of Amazon reveals that the first RETRO PULP TALES was published June of '06...

Only 3 years since his last anthology...and it got completely by me...
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Grey_Area
07/30/09

@Allen_Richards: Knowing Subterranean, we'll probably never see an affordable edition of any of the Retro Pulp collections.

But hey, good news! Tachyon Publications is coming out with a Best of Joe R. Lansdale collection in the nearish future. I'm trying to get a confirmed shipping date out of Mr. Weisman but he's as slippery as an eel, he is.
Stay tuned
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Allen_Richards
07/30/09

@Grey_Area: AI best of Joe? Then it'll just be another rehash of his older OOP collections, all of which I own. I was speaking to Joe once and he even told me not to bother spending the loot for one of his last collections, which was basically all of his stories from BEST SELLER'S GAURANTEED.

His short stories have ALWAYS been better than his novels, but these days it's rare he ever publishes them. I'd like to see a collection of shorts written, say, since WRITER OF THE PURPLE RAGE.
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Franklin Harris
07/30/09

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"Son of Retro Pulp Tales will be available any day now directly from Subterranean Press..."

Good to know. I pre-ordered it ages ago, it seems. The first Retro Pulp Tales was a lot of fun.
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SuprabhaIguana
07/30/09

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I can attest to the truth of the background of Harlan's story, though I haven't seen his intro to this book. The editor at Bantam who looked at it did not grok that it was a parody. It gave all of us taking part in the conversation to lament the cultural ignorance of the then current crop of editorial gatekeepers.
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Grey_Area
07/30/09

@SuprabhaIguana: Thanks for this info, sir/madame.
He was being way silly and obfuscatory in that intro (just to the story, Keith Lansdale did the book intro). I wasn't sure what to believe but I got a real kick out of it.
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Belabras ate my dingo!
07/30/09

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Sounds fantastic! Adding to the book queue now.
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braak
07/30/09

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Yes! More shooting and exploding monsters!
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Grey_Area
07/30/09

@braak: Monsters YAY!!!
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John Chapman
03/13/09

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I always assumed that the intentionally bad novels mentioned by Spider Robinson were the Horseclans books.
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Grey_Area
03/13/09

@John Chapman: That sounds right.
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Andrew Liptak
03/13/09

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I love the cover of Inherit the Stars. I need to find a copy of that.
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txtphile
03/12/09

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I heard the Scientology bet was with Jack "JPL" Parsons. But it wasn't a bet, rather a part of some OTO magickal experiment.

Probably not true, but I like it.
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Slatz_Grobnik
03/13/09

@txtphile: There was a lot of stuff going on between JPL and LRH, but (according to all the accounts I've read) it was back in LRH's solidly OTO days.

Of course, there's an argument for JPL's influence on what would be Scientology, and LRH probably picked up some tricks of the trade as regards creepy leadership of groups of people.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
03/12/09

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There were a number of witnesses to LRH's Co$ bet, but they tended to not write it down so as not to be sued. And most of them are dead now.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
03/12/09

@Evil Tortie's Mom: proof or it didn't happen :: oh wait - Scientology, like, EXISTS!
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Rusty626
03/12/09

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Now you have me pounding my head. I know I have a book somewhere in which the dedication was "From the world's greatest science fiction writer to the world's greatest science writer" I believe it was Clarke to Asimove, but, of course, now I can't find it.
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Alasdair Wilkins
03/12/09

@Rusty626: Well, "the dedication in Clarke's book Report on Planet Three (1972) reads: "In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer."

Not quite the formulation you said, but pretty close. That might be the one.
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Alasdair Wilkins
03/12/09

@Alasdair Wilkins: Oh, and that whole first paragraph is a quote from here. Other than the "well" at the beginning. That's the sort of originality and genius you can expect from me.
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