Pulp Books

Verne has done it again! Another action packed interesting book about exploring a comet in outer space. I couldnt put it down!

If you are looking for information on Edmonton now this is a great book to pick up. I've lived in Edmonton for all of my 25 years and this book still had tidbits I knew nothing about. A very informative and enjoyable book!

A delightful peek into life in the Late Ming Dynasty; almost anything went, or came. This is a book for serious research, joyful pleasure and good old-fashioned fun for everybody. Mature -- really mature -- themes, so it is not a gift for anyone until you have read it yourself. Guilty pleasures no more ... read this today.

This is the only book in endodontics today where one finds what is only available in speciality journals. I highly recommend it for speciality professors and practitioners who want to keep up with the latest techniques and products. The authors have written a truly remarkable text.

In this well-crafted novel, Philip Jose Farmer, best known for his Riverworld novels, chronicles the earliest known adventure of 1930s and '40s pulp hero Doc Savage. Young Clark Savage, shot down while balloon-busting over WWII Germany, finds himself a captive in Camp Loki, a prison camp specially designed for incouragible escapees. Doc pits his super abilities against Camp Loki's commandant, the wiley Baron von Hessel, a complex, nihilistic creature who ranks high on the list of Doc's most undaunting foes. The novel provides insight into Doc's motives for his later life of crime-fighting, made more intense by Farmer's ingenious weaving of disguised characters from other works of popular literature. Farmer, who once wrote fictional biographies of Doc Savage and Tarzan, was well qualified to pen this prequel which stands on firm ground with the original Doc Savage series by Kenneth Robeson.

I am somewhat biased for my review of 10. This book is out of print and has been replaced by Handbook of Pulping and Papermaking. The first 20 chapters of the second edition are unaltered except for some clarifications where necessary. The second edition adds about 300 pages on wet-end chemistry, colloid chemistry, printing processes, optical properties of paper, wood and fiber anatomy, and issues of processing and process control

I believe it's impossible to judge an anthology without access to the Table of Contents. So rather than trying to choose which individual stories should get rave reviews, I suggest you take a look for yourself. Enjoy!

Cover art - "Monolith" by Robert Sankner; *Introduction - David Bain, editor; *I Can Spend You - Charles A. Gramlich; *The Rose - James S. Dorr; *The Wordmonger's Tale - Bruce Boston; *The Thinking Part Is Me - M. T. Reiten; *Of Silence and Slow Time - C. A. Gardner; *Toril and Cort - Barbara Davies; *Emissary - G. W. Thomas; *The View from Stickney Crater - Rick Kennett; *In the Cemetery of the New City - Stefen Styrsky; *After You Die #1: The Sky - David Bain; *The Sacrifice - Bruce Golden; *Teratoid - William Allan; *Algorhythms - Simon Kewin; *If Death Were a Horse - Michele Acker; *The Latest Model - Laird Long; *Artificial Living - John Grey; *The Last Drive - Steve Moody; *The Calling - Kevin Anderson; *My Translucent Hands - Andy Oldfield; *Winter's Season - Sherry Thompson; *Playing the Dozens - Leah Bobet; *And a Sprig of Rosemary - Robert J. Santa; *The Cthulhu Cure - Gregory Story; About the Editor

I"m impressed with Brian Howell's documentary work featuring the culture of celebrity impersonators. In addition to wonderful photographs, the text reveals behind the scenes information that entertains and educates. Well done.

Wendell Phillips
Canada

This is a facsimile reprinting in a 6" x 9" perfectbound format 111 pages with the original illustrations plus a beautiful full color cover by Michael Kaluta.

This issue contains
Talbot Mundy "Black Flag" ,
Johnston McCulley "Uneasy Lies the Head" ,
H. Bedford-Jones "Berber Loot" ,
Loring Brent " Cave of the Blue Scorpion" and others.

The first in this series of pulp facsimile reprints printed in small editions.

I tracked down this book from reading a local review of it, and I'm so glad I did. The full page black and white photos are indescribably evocative and made me wonder what the subjects were thinking, how they coped with the harsh and often isolating demands of early BC interior communities.

The foreword by Paul Yee, and Faith Mossang's textual additons provide excellent details on the photographer - his times and his life. This book is an elegant and moving insight into people who helped build the province. A must-read!