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Reviews April 16, 2019

G.V. Anderson’s I Am Not I

Stories from Fantasy & Science Fiction Jul/Aug 2017:

Whether you label G.V. Anderson’s “I Am Not I” fantasy or bizarro fiction, you’d be correct. A wonderfully imaginative novelette about a girl who struggles for survival in a world of over-evolved lusus naturae who malign the merely human. “The inspiration for the honey man, I remember very clearly. The photographs online of lotus pods grafted onto various body parts—most people have seen those, I expect. They gave me nightmares, but I knew it would make an amazing visual for a character.”

Uncategorized April 15, 2019

Science Fiction Adventures July 1953

Science Fiction Adventures Vol. 1 No. 5 July 1953
Philip St. John: An Editorial on Serials
Raymond Z. Gallun “Legacy From Mars” art by Joseph Eberle
Irving E. Cox, Jr. “Semantic Courtship” art by H.R. Smith
Poul Anderson “The Nest” art by Alex Ebel
Coming Up
Russell Branch “League of Left-Handed Men” art by H.R. Smith
William Morrison “Long Life to You, Albert” art by Kelly Freas
Damon Knight’s The Dissecting Table (book reviews)
Erik van Lhin “Police Your Planet” part 3 of 4 art by Paul Orban

Editor: Philip St. John (Lester del Rey)
Assoc. Editor: E.K. Harrison, John Vincent
Book Editor: Damon Knight
Art Director: Milton Berwin
Cover: Alex Schomburg
160 pages, 35¢

Read Vince Nowell, Sr.’s article “When Things Go Wrong—The Lester del Rey/John Raymond Fiasco” in The Digest Enthusiast book seven.

Reviews April 14, 2019

William Dylan Powell’s Deep Ellum

Stories from Switchblade No. 2, edited by Scotch Rutherford:

Stanley Dunlop, deadbeat writer, is ushered back to his fleabag apartment at knifepoint by a mugger fresh out of the can in William Dylan Powell’s “A Death in Deep Ellum.” The unspoken contest of (dim) wits is entertaining and funny and ends with a neatly tied ribbon.

Opening Lines April 13, 2019

Opening Lines

“Ty took a break from sexting Maddie to ask the pool guy about the leaf blower guy.”
“The Pool Guy” by Adam Golub Pulp Literature #15 Summer 2017

Uncategorized April 12, 2019

Dan Andriacco’s Murder at Madame Tussaud’s

Excerpt from the review of Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1 from The Digest Enthusiast No. 7:

Dan Andriacco’s passion for Holmes and Watson is evident in “Murder at Madame Tussaud’s,” where Professor Carlo Stuarti employs his remarkable powers of observation to sleuth out everything Inspector Catchpool of the Yard overlooks or misinterprets. Stuarti, dubbed the “Count of Conjuring” by his PR man Jack Barker, is a prestidigitator by trade, but Barker does his best to immerse the magician in headline-grabbing crime solving for the halo effect on the Professor’s stage show

Reviews April 11, 2019

The Telzey Toy

Excerpt from Joe Wehrle, Jr.’s article on “The Telzey Amberdon Stories of James H. Schmitz” in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7:

The Telzey Toy (Analog January 1971). A producer of biological the- ater puppets that supposedly have no self-awareness kidnaps Telzey and makes a self-aware duplicate of her who agrees to be called Gaziel. Telzey’s psi abilities have been repressed until the man, Ti, can learn how to control them and her for his own purposes. Telzey needs to free herself as well as Gaziel, who will gradually be able to develop her own distinct personality when free to do so.

Uncategorized April 10, 2019

Science Fiction Adventures May 1953

Science Fiction Adventures Vol. 1 No. 4 May 1953
Philip St. John: An Editorial on Fan Clubs
Theodore R. Cogswell “The Other Cheek” art by Alex Ebel
Robert Sheckley “What Goes Up” art by Tom Beecham
Robert A. Madle’s Among the Fen: This is the PSFS
Irving E. Cox, Jr. “On Streets of Gold” art by Kelly Freas
Richard K. Snodgrass “Survivors” art by Joseph Eberle
Damon Knight’s The Dissecting Table (book reviews)
Robert D. Sampson “The Rocket Pistol” art by Milton Berwin
Erik van Lhin “Police Your Planet” part 2 of 3 art by Paul Orban
The Chart Room (letters)

Editor: Philip St. John (Lester del Rey)
Assoc. Editor: E.K. Harrison, John Vincent
Art Director: Milton Berwin
Cover: H.R. van Dongen
160 pages, 35¢

Read Vince Nowell, Sr.’s article “When Things Go Wrong—The Lester del Rey/John Raymond Fiasco” in The Digest Enthusiast book seven.

Vault April 9, 2019

Alfred Hitchcock April 1962

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Vol. 7 No. 4 April 1962
Alfred Hitchcock: Dear Readers (Hitch announces Tuesday night’s half-hour Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV program on NBC, will expand to one hour next season and move to Sunday night on CBS.)
Contents
Clark Howard “Put Yourself in My Place”
Richard Hill Wilkinson “Circumstances Alter Cases”
De Forbes “Flora Africana”
Joe Mackey “Free Translation”
Bryce Walton “Never Hang Another”
Wade H. Mosby “Let Me Read Your Tea-Leaves”
Borden Deal “Make Your Pitch”
Tom MacPherson “Down to the Sea in Formaldehyde”
Robert Edmond Alter “Double Trouble”
William Link & Richard Levinson “Top-Flight Aquarium”
Allen Kim Lang “Beauty and the Beasts”

Publisher: Richard E. Decker
Editor: Lisa Belknap
Managing Editor: G.F. Foster
Associate Editors: Pat Hitchcock, Victoria S. Benham
Art Director: Meinrad Mayer
Illustrator: Marguerite Blair Deacon
128 pages, 35¢

Uncategorized April 8, 2019

Rick Ollerman on digest magazines

“The first time I discovered digest magazines I was a boy living in Simsbury, Connecticut. I’d walk up through the woods, jump over a small creek, walk along a road, cut through a graveyard and then the Little League fields, and finally down a hill to the public library. I’d wander through the upstairs section, with the adult books, and at some point, I came across boxes of old Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact magazines. I think they were being edited either by Ben Bova or Stanley Schmidt at that time.”

Excerpted from the interview with Rick Ollerman that appears in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7.

Opening Lines April 7, 2019

Opening Lines

“I had just gotten into my car, just dropped my new dog off at Donna’s Dog Care, when I saw her get out of a red SUV: Sheila Kemper.”

“Trash” by Jen Conley Down & Out: The Magazine #1 August 2017