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Oo audible might be cool.The Imaro books have been reissued and are available on Kindle and Audible.
Oo audible might be cool.
Just added it to my Audible list, the reader Mirron Willis sounds good on the sample available, I find a good reader is really important for audiobooks.
The Lin Carter edited Adult Fantasy line had the best psychedelic/pastoral covers.
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I had no idea that Carter was involved with an edition of Orlando Furioso.
I assume it's a partial translation; the Penguin edition is two big, fat volumes:
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Not at all pulpy, but what the heck.
I think Orlando Furioso was the popular litetature of its time and so sort of pulp in that regard.
I'm sure I've read something by Chelsea Quinn Yarboro - maybe a post-apocalyptic setting where people can regenerate limbs. Can't remember the title, though.
I could well be wrong. The review/summary I linked to above claims thatI don't remember regeneration as part of False Dawn - as I recall most of the mutations leaned toward the somewhat plausible - but it's been a couple of decades since I've read it so I may well be misremembering. It was a pretty dark read.
She also wrote a short story prequel that appears in one of her anthology books.
That rings a bell. I thought the bandit leader was growing his arm back.Could be. Like I said, it's been a few decades since I've read it.
I think the female lead had something unusual with her eyes, like a nictitating membrane on her eyelids or somesuch?
That rings a bell. I thought the bandit leader was growing his arm back.
Edit: It was False Dawn. I recognised this cover.
Alright give me a synopsis of False Dawn. I'm curious but don't have time to read it.
Alright give me a synopsis of False Dawn. I'm curious but don't have time to read it.
But I was going to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters...
I remember seeing that in Warren Ellis' "Fuck you, spaceship" collection on his blog.
Her one sf novel, the Young Adult Out There (1971), significantly anticipates many later novels, being set in an early twenty-first century Dystopian Near Future where a diminished population lives in Keeps insulated from the countryside, which has been devastated by Pollution. The cast of young protagonists, led by an older woman who remembers the real world, venture into the badlands, eventually finding signs of a living flora and fauna (see Ecology) in the Sierra Nevada; the novel ends without any assurance that, now that it has been discovered, the land will remain immune from the old exploitative cycle that had brought the planet to the edge of extinction. Stoutenburg wrote several nonfiction volumes about the extinction of animal species; Out There is eloquent and deeply felt.
I had a copy of the '73 Ace double at one point, but it got lost somewhere along the way over the years.
That 1989 cover clearly takes some inspiration from the shape of Jabba's palace in Return of the Jedi.I am a big fan of Jack Vance's "The Last Castle." It's a novella, so there are not that many covers featuring it--it often shows up in collections of Vance's works, not as a stand-alone publication. There have been a number of 'doubles' over the years for it, though.
The cover of April 1966 Galaxy, where it first appeared, and its first book publication (as an Ace Double) in 1967, both by Jack Gaughan:
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Some interior art by Gaughan from Galaxy, showing a Phane and an Mek:
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The 1973 Ace Double cover by Josh Kirby and the Best of Jack Vance (1979) cover by David Schleinkofer. I think it may illustrate "The Last Castle."
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The 1982 Ace Double cover by Richard Courtney and the 1989 Tor by Brian Waugh:
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