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News March 25, 2019

EconoClash Review No. 3

When the Kindle version of this issue went live late last year, the release date for the print version was TBD. I checked back for a while, but I’ll claim distraction as to why I only revisited things last week. At any rate, it’s out now, so get your shekels ready for another great thrill ride.

EconoClash Review No. 3
Contents
J.D. Graves: Welcome Thrill Seekers
Michael Bracken “Little Bubba Visits the Roadhouse”
Sara Dobie Bauer “I’m Gonna Eat You”
Max Sheridan “Small Fish”
Kristen Brand “Chasing Shadows”
Rick McQuiston “Anything Can Be Dangerous”
Leroy B. Vaughn “Raid on Alcatraz”
Brian James Lewis “Turning the Tables”
Nick Sweeney “Firestarters”
Chris Stanley “Disillusioned”
Nicola Lombardi “It’s Dark Out There” translation by Joe Weintraub
Cheap Thrills Bios

Editor-in-Chief: J.D. Graves
Cover & Story Art: Duane Crockett
5” x 8”, 150 pages
$7.99 POD, $2.99 Kindle
EconoClash Review website

Reviews March 24, 2019

S.E. Bailey’s Talent for Killing

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

Rival mobs vie for territory in S.E. Bailey’s “A Talent for Killing.” Like the previous yarn (“My Brother’s Keeper by Rob T. White), the protagonist is captured and tortured, recalling the events that brought him to his deadly predicament. The horrors to come are both imminent and twisted. Bailey builds the tension in “Talent” nicely, and the opening inner monologue about killing in battle is excellent.

Vault March 23, 2019

Open Land Renegades

Excerpt from Steve Carper’s series “One-and-Dones” that appears in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7–9:

“In 1948 Vital Publications put out four Nick Carter novels as Vital Books, the link being that Vital Publications also issued Tom J. Hopkins’ Open Land Renegades as a Western Thriller digest, which has the telltale “An Atlas Western” all over the rear cover.”

Interviews March 22, 2019

Hardboiled, Noir and Gold Medals

Rick Ollerman’s Hardboiled, Noir and Gold Medals collects many of his essays from the collected works of paperback original authors, published by Stark House Press. Below is an excerpt from his interview in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7 in which he describes his approach to research for his essays:

“Whenever I write an essay, I always want to find something new to say about either that writer or their work, maybe both.

“It’s not always easy to know what that something new is going to be before I start researching and taking notes for the essay. In fact, it’s usually not. Sometimes I have an idea what it could be, and sometimes it even works out, but often not. Very often in the case of some of the paperback original guys, no one seems to have written down much about them, and reading is my primary form of research.”

Rick Ollerman is a writer and editor of Down & Out: The Magazine.

News March 21, 2019

Amazing Stories No. 3 Spring 2019

Amazing Stories Vol. 76 No. 3 Spring 2019
Contents
Ira Nyman’s From the Editor’s Desk: The Future is Fun, art by Matt Taggart
Tom Barber: Amazing Cover Artist
John Grant (aka Paul Barnett) interviewed by Darrell Schweitzer, photo by John Grant
Jack Clemons’ Citizens of the Solar System, Cool Science and Technology on the International Space Station, art by Olena Perekhrystiuk
R.S. Belcher “Red Shift” art by Tom Miller, M.D. Jackson
Marie Bilodeau “Out-of-Most-Worlds Planet Cessation Extravaganza” art by Matt Taggart
J.M. Frey and D. Simon’s TTC Gothic
Kathy Kitts “Cricket Songs” art by Amanda Makepeace
Sean Grigsby “A Swift Drop; Two Bits” art by Ron Miller
Cartoon
Marc A. Criley “Impending Karma Strike” art by Britt Martin
Cartoon
Matthew Timmins “Damn Lousy Teapots” art by Sean Chappell
Rosemary Claire Smith “Conservation of Mismatched Shoes” art by Melisa des Rosier
J.M. Frey and D. Simon’s TTC Gothic
Paul Levenson “The Whether App” art by Richard Mandrachio
Tyler Hagemann “The Day the Animals Turned to Sand” (verse)
Clara Blackwood “The Girl Who Loved Birds” (verse)
Tanya Karen Gough “T-Minus” art by Chukwudi Nwaefulu
Elsa M. Carruthers “God Bless the Freaks” art by M.D. Jackson
Shirley Meier’s Off the Top of My Head, art by staff
Steve Fahnestalk’s SF on Film, art by Pratap Sharma
Veronica Scott’s Why Give Science Fiction Romance a Second Look, photos by various

Publisher: Steve Davidson
Editor-in-Chief: Ira Nayman
Art Director: Kermit Woodall
Cover: Tom Barber
Full size magazine: 8.5” x 11” 100 pages
Available at select conventions and by subscription from the Amazing Stories website

Reviews March 20, 2019

Barb Goffman’s Crazy Cat Lady

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

Barb Goffman leans cozy until the bitter end in the “Crazy Cat Lady.” A horror novelist shares a first-person account of her downward spiral as her torture-porn tomes repel her friends and fuel her own paranoia. Goffman’s “A Year Without Santa Claus?” (AHMM Jan/Feb 2015) won the Agatha Award for best short story in 2015.

Vault March 19, 2019

Science Fiction Adventures Feb. 1953

Science Fiction Adventures Vol. 1 No. 2 Feb. 1953
Philip St. John: An Editorial on Foresight
A. Bertram Chandler “Farewell to the Lotos” art by Paul Orban
Coming Up
Alan E. Nourse “Peacemaker” art by Alex Ebel
George O. Smith “Spaceman’s Luck” art by Alex Ebel
L. Sprague de Camp “It Ool Depends”
William Morrison “Forgotten Danger” art by Kelly Freas
Charles E. Fritch “Come into My Parlor” art by Paul Orban
Damon Knight’s The Dissecting Table (book reviews)
George Whitley “Final Voyage” art by Alex Ebel
The Main Event in ’53

Publisher: R. Alvarez
Editor: Philip St. John (Lester del Rey)
Assoc. Editor: John Vincent
Art Director: Milton Berwin
Cover: Earle Bergey
160 pages, 35¢

Although the name [Erik] van Lhin (a Lester del Rey pseudonym) appears on the cover, no story appears inside the issue.

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

Reviews March 18, 2019

Resident Witch

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

Resident Witch (Analog May 1970). Telzey agrees to help Wellan Dasinger locate a man who has been abducted by his brother and hidden until he can be permanently disposed of; but the situation proves to be more complex than anticipated, and Telzey risks her life and safety in a temporary personality exchange in order to bring matters to conclusion. Reprinted in The Telzey Toy (DAW #82 1973).

Reviews March 17, 2019

J. Kingston Pierce’s Evidence

Excerpt from the review of Down & Out: The Magazine No. 1 in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7.

Book news and reviews are “Placed in Evidence” by J. Kingston Pierce. A good review tells you enough to judge your interest in a book without spoiling the read. A great review adds entertainment and context, along with clear, fluid writing. Pierce’s reviews deliver the goods in spades.

News March 16, 2019

Fantasy and Science Fiction Mar/Apr 2019

Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol. 136 No. 3 and 4, No. 742, Mar/Apr 2019
Contents
Gregor Hartmann “The Unbearable Lightness of Bullets”
Matthew Hughes “The Plot Against Fantucco’s Armor”
S. Qiouyi Lu “At Your Dream’s Edge”
Charles de Lint: Books to Look For
Michelle West: Musing on Books
Mary Soon Lee “In the Caverns of the Moon” (verse)
Sophie M. White “Away” (verse)
R.S. Benedict “All of Me”
Tina Connolly “miscellaneous notes from the time an alien came to band camp disguised as my alto sax”
John Kessel “The Mark of Cain”
Diana Peterfreund “Playscape”
Margaret Killjoy “The Free Orcs of Cascadia”
Paul Park “Dear Sir or Madam”
Jerry Oltion’s Science: E.T. Shmee-T
David J. Skal’s Films: The Yawning Abyss
Jerome Stueart “Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun”
Nick DiChario “Bella and the Blessed Stone”
Rich Larson “Contagion’s Eve at the House Noctambulous”
Coming Attractions
Market Place
Graham Andrews’ Curiosities: The Brontés Went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson (1931)

Publisher: Gordon Van Gelder
Editor: C.C. Finlay
Assistant Publishers: Barbara J. Norton, Keith Kahla
Assistant Editors: Robin O’Connor, Stephen L. Mazur, Lisa Rogers
Contests Editor: Carol Pinchefsky
Cover: Ken Bash “Contagion’s Eve at the House Noctambulous”
Cartoons: Nick Downes, Bill Long, Arthur Mascar, Danny Shanahan
258 pages, $8.99 on newsstands until April 29, 2019
Fantasy & Science Fiction website