@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.
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....
@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
@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.
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.
@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.
@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.
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.
@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.
@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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you can see some of these here in my personal pulp gallery
http://www.bigmeathammer.com/gallery.htm
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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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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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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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Only 3 years since his last anthology...and it got completely by me...
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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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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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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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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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Probably not true, but I like it.
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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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Not quite the formulation you said, but pretty close. That might be the one.
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