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Killer by Robert Silverberg

Killer by Robert SilverbergComing soon: Black Gat No. 37.

Originally published as Passion Killer by Don Elliott for Sundown Reader in 1965, this sleaze paperback seems like an odd choice for the Black Gat imprint. Maybe it’s an experiment to test the waters. Weighing in at 163 pages, I’d guess well over three quarters of this is one boring soft-core sex scene after another. Marie and Dolores’ cups runneth over explicitly above the waist, but anything below is a mere hint and a wink other than their rear ends that are described a lot like their tatas sans nipples.

The plot that moves intermittently forward as interludes between all the sex scenes ain’t bad. It could’ve easily been the basis for a good crime novel about a rich dude who hires a hit man to snuff his wife so he can marry his much younger, voluptuous girlfriend. Obviously, Silverberg can write. Unfortunately, the soft porn dominates too many pages and I couldn’t wait to finish unfulfilled.

Collectors will want this volume to keep their Black Gat runs complete, but I hope if Stark House continues with this genre they’ll  spin it off in a line of its own.

Killer by Robert Silverberg back cover

Startling Stories No. 1

Startling Stories Vol. 34 No. 1, 2021 issue

Startling Stories [v34 #1, 2021 issue] ex. ed. John Betancourt, ed. Douglas Draa (Wildside Press, $19.99, 252pp, pulp)
1 • A Voice from the Ether • Douglas Draa • ed
• Contents Pages
2 • Cradle of the Deep • Mike Chinn • ss
20 • Invasion of the Deadly Brain from Alpha-IX • Scott Emerson • ss • illustration by Allen K.
27 • Evidence of the Mirror • Harb Kauderer • ss
36 • Mothership • Stephen Pershing • ss
50 • Timeline Murders • Janet Fox • pm
51 • Hazthrog’s Contempt • Maxwell I. Gold • ss
59 • New Life • Mark Slade • ss
65 • Red Dragon • Shadrick Beechem • ss
73 • Snack Time • Franklyn Searight • ss
88 • Amiri • Nicole Givens Kurtz • ss
93 • Sticks and Stones • John B. Rosenman • ss
98 • T. Gips and the Time Flies • Ahmed A. Khan • ss
100 • The Angry Planet • D.J. Turer • ss
107 • The Heart of a Hitman • Rie Sheridan Rose • ss
113 • The Kidnapped Prince • Cynthia Ward • ss
125 • The Outpost, Outside • Larry Hinkle • ss
130 • The Vaults of Ban-Erach. • Steve Dilks • ss
142 • Totality • Andre E. Harewood • ss
149 • Triplet Cross • Patrick S. Baker • ss
164 • Sea Bound-1 • Eddie D. Moore • ss
176 • The Blood Red Sky of Mars • Adrian Cole • ss
192 • Horizon • John Gregory Betancourt • nv
243 • Sunrise on Mercury • Robert Silverberg • ss Science Fiction Stories May 1957 as by Calvin M. Knox

Wildside Press Website
Print $19.99

Galaxy Dec. 1970

Galaxy Dec. 1970

Contents Page
Ejler Jakobsson’s Editor’s Page: 43° N, 154° E (location of the moon crater named for Willy Ley)
James Blish “Darkside Crossing”
Ernest Hill “The Stenth Dimension”
Robert Silverberg “We Are Well Organized”
Grahame Leman “2001 Hours’ Solo”
Stephen Tall “The Mad Scientist and the FBI”
Algis Budrys: Galaxy Bookshelf
Robert A. Heinlein “I Will Fear No Evil” Part IV
Keith Laumer’s Science Feature: The Limiting Velocity of Orthodoxy

Galaxy Magazine Vol. 31 No. 1 Dec. 1970
Publisher: Arnold E. Abramson
Assoc. Publisher: Bernard Williams
Editor: Ejler Jakobsson
Science Editor: Donald H. Menzel
Feature Editor: Lester del Rey
Managing Editor: Judy-Lynn Benjamin
Art Director: Franc L. Roggeri
Assoc. Art Director: Jack Gaughan
Cover and interior art: Jack Gaughan
5.25” x 7.75” 192 pages 75¢

Galaxy Oct/Nov 1970

Galaxy Oct/Nov 1970

Contents Page
Letters (with Editor Ejler Jakobsson’s responses)
Robert Silverberg “The World Outside”
Harold Kraus “A New Life”
William T. Powers “Readout Time”
Galaxy Stars: Algis Budrys
William Earls “Traffic Problem”
Michael Bishop “Piñon Fall”
Robert A. Heinlein “I Will Fear No Evil” Part III

Galaxy Magazine Vol. 30 No. 6 Oct/Nov 1970
Publisher: Arnold E. Abramson
Assoc. Publisher: Bernard Williams
Editor: Ejler Jakobsson
Science Editor: Donald H. Menzel
Feature Editor: Lester del Rey
Managing Editor: Judy-Lynn Benjamin
Art Director: Franc L. Roggeri
Assoc. Art Director: Jack Gaughan
Cover and interior art: Jack Gaughan
5.25” x 7.75” 192 pages 75¢

Galaxy July 1970

Galaxy July 1970

Contents Page
Ejler Jakobsson: Asbestos, Too
Robert A. Heinlein “I Will Fear No Evil” Part I art by Jack Gaughan
Robert Silverberg “The Throwbacks” (Urban Monad) art by Jack Gaughan
Lauri Virta’s Containers for the Condition of Man with photos by Leroy Woodson
Wilma Shore “Goodbye Amanda Jean” art by Jack Gaughan
Galaxy Stars: Anne McCaffrey
R.A. Lafferty “The All-At-Once Man” art by Jack Gaughan
Dannie Plachta “The Hookup” art by Jack Gaughan
Andrew J. Offutt “Ask a Silly Question” art by Jack Gaughan
Anne McCaffrey “Sittik” art by Jack Gaughan
Algis Budrys: Galaxy Bookshelf
— Anne McCaffrey The Ship Who Sang
— C.L Moore Jirel of Joiry

Galaxy Magazine Vol. 30 No. 4 July 1970
Publisher: Arnold E. Abramson
Assoc. Publisher: Bernard Williams
Editor: Ejler Jakobsson
Science Editor: Donald H. Menzel
Feature Editor: Lester del Rey
Managing Editor: Judy-Lynn Benjamin
Art Director: Franc L. Roggeri
Assoc. Art Director: Jack Gaughan
Cover: Jack Gaughan
5.25” x 7.75” 160 pages 60¢

Galaxy June 1970

Galaxy June 1970

Contents
Ejler Jakobsson: I Will Fear No Evil
Carl Jacobi “The Player at Yellow Silence” art by Jack Gaughan
John Brunner “Out of Mindshot” art by Jack Gaughan
William Rotsler “Ship Me Tomorrow” art by Jack Gaughan
Algis Budrys: Galaxy Bookshelf
— T.L. Sherred Alien Island
— David Guy Compton The Steel Crocodile
— Philip José Farmer Lord Tyger
Hayden Howard “Oil-Mad Bug-Eyed Monsters” art by Jack Gaughan
Duncan Lunan “The Moon of Thin Reality” art by Jack Gaughan
Robert Silverberg “The Tower of Glass”* Part III art by Jack Gaughan
Lawrence Mayer “Children’s Crusade”
Galaxy Stars: William Rotsler art by William Rotsler

Galaxy Magazine Vol. 30 No. 3 June 1970
Publisher: Arnold E. Abramson
Associ. Publisher: Bernard Williams
Editor: Ejler Jakobsson
Editor Emeritus: Frederik Pohl
Science Editor: Donald H. Menzel
Feature Editor: Lester del Rey
Managing Editor: Judy-Lynn Benjamin
Art Director: Franc L. Roggeri
Assoc. Art Director: Jack Gaughan
Cover: Jack Gaughan

Galaxy May 1970

Galaxy May 1970

Contents
Ejler Jakobsson: The DDTs
James Blish “A Style in Treason”
David Gerrold “The God Machine”
Arthur C. Clarke “Neutron Tide”
Robert Silverberg “The Tower of Glass”* Part II
Avram Davidson “Timeserver”
Algis Budrys: Galaxy Bookshelf
Michael G. Coney “Whatever Became of the McGowans?”
Vaughn Bodé “Sunpot” (comic)
Frederik Pohl’s Editorial View: Overkill
Galaxy Stars: Robert Silverberg

Galaxy Magazine Vol. 30 No. 2 May 1970
Publisher: Arnold E. Abramson
Associ. Publisher: Bernard Williams
Editor: Ejler Jakobsson
Editor Emeritus: Frederik Pohl
Science Editor: Donald H. Menzel
Feature Editor: Lester del Rey
Managing Editor: Judy-Lynn Benjamin
Art Director: Franc L. Roggeri
Assoc. Art Director: Jack Gaughan
Cover and interior art: Jack Gaughan

Galaxy April 1970

Galaxy April 1970

Contents
Ejler Jakobsson: On Genetics and Consensus
Stephen Tall “Allison, Carmichael and Tattersall”*
Michael G. Coney “Discover a Latent Moses”*
Robert Silverberg “The Tower of Glass”* Part I
Ray Bradbury “Darwin in the Fields” (verse)
A. Bertram Chandler “The Rub”*
Vaughn Bodé “Sunpot” (comic)
Algis Budrys: Galaxy Bookshelf
Robert Conquest “No Planet Like Home”*
James E. Gunn “Kindergarten”*

Galaxy Magazine Vol. 30 No. 1 April 1970
Publisher: Arnold E. Abramson
Associ. Publisher: Bernard Williams
Editor: Ejler Jakobsson
Editor Emeritus: Frederik Pohl
Science Editor: Donald H. Menzel
Feature Editor: Lester del Rey
Managing Editor: Judy-Lynn Benjamin
Art Director: Franc L. Roggeri
Assoc. Art Director: Jack Gaughan
*Cover and interior art: Jack Gaughan

Fantasy & Science Fiction Sep/Oct 2019

Fantasy & Science Fiction Sep/Oct 2019

As Gordon Van Gelder promised in TDE10, “Our 70th anniversary issue is going to be good one.”

Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol. 137 No. 3 and 4, No. 745, Sep/Oct 2019
Contents
Kelly Link “The White Cat’s Divorce”
Paolo Bacigalupi “American Gold Mine”
Y.M. Pang “Little Inn on the Jianghu
Mary Soon Lee “Last Human in the Olympics” (verse)
Robert Silverberg: Three Score and Ten
Charles de Lint: Books to Look For
James Sallis: Books
Michael Moorcock “Kabul”
Maureen McHugh “Under the Hill”
Amanda Hollander “Madness Afoot”
Nick Wolven “The Light on Eldoreth”
Elizabeth Bear “Erase, Erase, Erase”
Karin Lowachee: Films—Love Death + Some Regression
Jerry Oltion: Science—Net Up or Net Down?
Paul De Filippo: Plumage From Pegasus—A Giraffe Yoked to an Ox: A Review of Flora Columbia: Goddess of a New Age
Jeff Crandall “Halstead IV” (verse)
Ken Liu “Booksavr”
Esther Friesner “The Wrong Badger”
Michael Swanwick “Ghost Ships”
Gardner Dozois “Homecoming”
Coming Attractions
Market Place
Thomas Kaufsek’s Curiosities—Science Fiction: Complete with Everything: Aliens, Giant Ants, Space Cadets, Robots, and One Plucky Girl by No-Frills Entertainment (1981)

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: David A. Hardy
Cartoons: Mark Heath, Danny Shanahan
258 pages, $8.99 on newsstands until Nov. 4, 2019
Fantasy & Science Fiction website

Galaxy March 1970

Galaxy March 1970

Contents
Ejler Jakobsson: Man in Eternity
Algis Budrys: Galaxy Bookshelf
Harlan Ellison “The Region Between”
Leo P. Kelley “The Propheteer”
George C. Willick “A Place of Strange”
Robert Silverberg “Downward to the Earth” Part IV conclusion
Vaughn Bodé “Sunpot” (comic)
Robert F. Young “Reflections”

Galaxy Magazine Vol. 29 No. 6 March 1970
Publisher: Arnold E. Abramson
Associ. Publisher: Bernard Williams
Editor: Ejler Jakobsson
Editor Emeritus: Frederik Pohl
Science Editor: Donald H. Menzel
Feature Editor: Lester del Rey
Managing Editor: Judy-Lynn Benjamin
Art Director: Franc L. Roggeri
Assoc. Art Director: Jack Gaughan
Cover and interior art: Jack Gaughan