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Tag Archives: 1969

Ubik – Philip K. Dick

2016-01-23

Glen Runciter is dead. Or is it that his team of anti-psychics led are all dead? Dick’s surreal masterpiece questions the nature of reality, an existential nightmare trapped in half-life.

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I Am Crying All Inside – The Complete Clifford D. Simak, Vol. 1

2015-09-12

By the time he was named the third Science Fiction Grand Master in 1977, Clifford D. Simak had already been …

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Richard Matheson – Assorted Short Stories

2013-07-29

Ten stories of horror, fantasy, and science-fiction that come bundled in the one Tor/Orb version of I Am Legend. Mostly old magazine reprints; mostly hit or miss.

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One Endless Hour – Dan Marlowe

2013-02-19

Battered, burned, and captured, the man who will call himself Earl Drake is looking for an escape route out of a hospital ward. That escape comes in the form of a Pakistani plastic surgeon.

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Adventures in Art – Late-’60s Avon Horror

2012-10-31

To be honest, I’m not a big horror fiction reader, in part because I’m not sure where to start. Though I do get a kick out of horror novel covers. Like these very ambient covers for Avon in the late 1960s; very evocative, definitely horror, nice colors, and an interesting running theme (same angle, same color pattern).

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The Ship Who Sang – Anne McCaffrey

2012-08-27

Girl born with severe physical deformities is encased in titanium and linked up to become the “brain” of a starship. Collects various stories of her many adventures.

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The Starchild Trilogy – Jack Williamson & Frederik Pohl

2012-01-01

Three loosely related novels of adventure set in a universe which could never be: it uses Hoyle’s obsolescent steady-state physics as a backdrop.

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Somebody Owes Me Money – Donald Westlake

2011-12-14

Hapless New York cabbie gets a hot tip on a winning horse, but somebody offs his bookie before he’s paid. Now he’s looking to collect. Fantastic old romp by Westlake.

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Adventures in Art – ’60s-’70s Horror Digests

2011-10-31

You never know what you’re going to find at library bag sales; those things are a great dumping place for …

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Zero Cool – John Lange

2011-01-12

Witty radiologist vacationing in Spain finds himself mixed up in murder and intrigue; he has to stay one step ahead of a French-speaking cowboy, a crazy mathematician, and a dwarf wealthy beyond measure. Really.

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