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    Acidic Bullets Vs. Disintegrating Flame, In "The Werewolves Of War!"

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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    11/17/09

    In reply to Acidic Bullets Vs. Disintegrating Flame, In "The Werewolves Of War!"
    Ah, aero-diesels! The future aircraft engine of the 1930s future...
    -Kle. #bookvortex
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    Image of jimandandrealetters jimandandrealetters
    11/17/09

    @Klebert L. Hall: A four-engined scout. Probably needed them with all that armor.
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    Klebert L. Hall promoted this comment jimandandrealetters was starred jimandandrealetters was unstarred
    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    11/18/09

    @jimandandrealetters:

    You are correct, that's also awesome.
    -Kle.
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    11/17/09

    In reply to Acidic Bullets Vs. Disintegrating Flame, In "The Werewolves Of War!"
    "...in front of the front they fought,"

    Now that's the kind of alliteration that will stay with you. #bookvortex
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    11/17/09

    In reply to Acidic Bullets Vs. Disintegrating Flame, In "The Werewolves Of War!"
    "Tentacles from Below"? I didn't know anime was around during the 1930s. Oh wait, they meant "below the ocean." Silly me. #bookvortex
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    Image of HyMinded HyMinded
    11/17/09

    In reply to Acidic Bullets Vs. Disintegrating Flame, In "The Werewolves Of War!"
    Uh, guys those bad stories and writers just went on to make "movies"

    [io9.com] #bookvortex
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/16/09

    In reply to Acidic Bullets Vs. Disintegrating Flame, In "The Werewolves Of War!"
    I think this is what @Moff meant a few weeks ago when he said early scince fiction deserved the Ghetto it was thrown into. #bookvortex
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    11/16/09

    In reply to Acidic Bullets Vs. Disintegrating Flame, In "The Werewolves Of War!"
    can we assume that is Max Immelmann he's refering to?
    [www.furball.warbirdsiii.com] #bookvortex
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    11/16/09

    In reply to Acidic Bullets Vs. Disintegrating Flame, In "The Werewolves Of War!"
    They sure don't write them like they used too.

    Thank goodness. #bookvortex
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    Image of AEchinoderm AEchinoderm
    07/31/09

    In reply to "Son of Retro Pulp Tales" Delights In Cheap Thrills
    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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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/31/09

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

    In reply to "Son of Retro Pulp Tales" Delights In Cheap Thrills
    Go out and find "monstrous" it`s a horror collection, make sure you read about the 65 foot Vampire !!!
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    07/30/09

    In reply to "Son of Retro Pulp Tales" Delights In Cheap Thrills
    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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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    07/30/09

    In reply to "Son of Retro Pulp Tales" Delights In Cheap Thrills
    The moment I read the title I though of Futurama's "Anthologies of Interest!!!"
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    Image of SnehalMarten SnehalMarten
    07/30/09

    In reply to "Son of Retro Pulp Tales" Delights In Cheap Thrills
    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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    Image of Grey_Area 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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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. 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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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    07/30/09

    In reply to "Son of Retro Pulp Tales" Delights In Cheap Thrills
    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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    Image of Allen_Richards 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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    Image of Grey_Area 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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    Image of Allen_Richards 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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    Image of Franklin Harris Franklin Harris
    07/30/09

    In reply to "Son of Retro Pulp Tales" Delights In Cheap Thrills
    "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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    Image of SuprabhaIguana SuprabhaIguana
    07/30/09

    In reply to "Son of Retro Pulp Tales" Delights In Cheap Thrills
    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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    Image of Grey_Area 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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