tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post5475899067277505660..comments2024-03-28T02:29:37.413-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Forgotten Books: Who Done It? -- Alice Laurance & Isaac Asimov, EditorsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-2482074685647245992012-03-31T06:46:57.376-05:002012-03-31T06:46:57.376-05:00Thanks, Todd. Very interesting.Thanks, Todd. Very interesting.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-61927471108474839852012-03-31T04:52:34.672-05:002012-03-31T04:52:34.672-05:00And I knew this conceit seemed familiar in an Asim...And I knew this conceit seemed familiar in an Asimovian context, as well...the duo also edited _Speculations : 17 Stories Written Especially for This Volume By Well-Known Science Fiction Authors, But Their Names are Concealed By a Code and It's Up to You to Figure Out Who Wrote What_...you will note some similarity among the participants...<br /><br />ix • Foreword: The Scope of Science Fiction • essay by Isaac Asimov<br />1 • Nor Iron Bars a Cage • novelette by Roger Robert Lovin<br />28 • Surfeit • [Humanx Commonwealth • 5] • novelette by Alan Dean Foster<br />52 • The Winds of Change • shortstory by Isaac Asimov<br />71 • Harpist • shortstory by Joe L. Hensley<br />80 • Great Tom Fool or The Conundrum of the Calais Customhouse Coffers • shortstory by R. A. Lafferty<br />114 • The Hand of the Bard • shortstory by Mack Reynolds<br />133 • The Man Who Floated in Time • shortstory by Robert Silverberg<br />147 • Flee to the Mountains • shortstory by Rachel Cosgrove Payes<br />162 • Last Day • shortstory by Gene Wolfe<br />167 • The Newest Profession • novelette by Phyllis Gotlieb<br />191 • A Break for the Dinosaurs • shortstory by Jack Williamson<br />201 • Event at Holiday Rock • shortstory by Jacqueline Lichtenberg<br />206 • A Touch of Truth • shortstory by Alice Laurance and William K. Carlson<br />217 • "Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?" • shortstory by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg<br />225 • ...Old...As a Garment • shortstory by Zenna Henderson<br />236 • Flatsquid Thrills • shortstory by Scott Baker<br />245 • The Mystery of the Young Gentleman • novelette by Joanna Russ<br />277 • Biographies of the Authors • essay by uncredited<br />287 • To Break the Code • essay by uncreditedTodd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-32340325974178373182012-03-30T14:15:01.914-05:002012-03-30T14:15:01.914-05:00One of these days I gotta start proofing these pos...One of these days I gotta start proofing these posts.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-30947499669349554832012-03-30T14:08:28.377-05:002012-03-30T14:08:28.377-05:00Dannay would put such challenges in EQMM from time...Dannay would put such challenges in EQMM from time to time, too.<br /><br />I missed the typo on Patricia Moyes before...Mayberry another writer I'm pretty sure that I first read thanks to Robert Arthur under the Hitch Presents aegis.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-88110765639363923532012-03-30T13:06:02.504-05:002012-03-30T13:06:02.504-05:00Did Asimov confess in his intro to borrowing this ...Did Asimov confess in his intro to borrowing this idea from "Ellery Queen" when that writing team published an anthology of unattributed shorts in CHALLENGE TO THE READER decades before? Even the detectives' names were changed to obscure the author's identity. Sounds very similar. I doubt I'd be able to get half of these based on style and plotting alone. Never heard of seven of these writers.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-25164610691350649852012-03-30T09:57:26.269-05:002012-03-30T09:57:26.269-05:00Thanks, Todd. I fixed the spelling. I've nev...Thanks, Todd. I fixed the spelling. I've never read anything by Gresham or Mayberry except in this volume.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-59600439593995552372012-03-30T09:44:02.344-05:002012-03-30T09:44:02.344-05:00I will have to seek this out, I suspect...and Laff...I will have to seek this out, I suspect...and Lafferty was a chameleon, not all of his work so challenging as several found PAST MASTER (see George Kelley's review last week). You typo Joe Hensley's name slightly...and I'm a little surprised that you weren't at least familiar with nearly all the names...the only one I'm sure I haven't come across before is Elizabeth Gresham's, and aside from wondering if she's related to William L. Gresham, she seems to have been a reasonably prolific YA novelist. Gatenby is the only other I'm pretty sure I've never read...Steve Lewis has her obit:<br />http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=290<br /><br />D. F. Lewis, a writer of brilliant and sometimes puzzling vignettes, produced a decent run of a magazine (or periodical book), NEMONYMOUS, based on a similar principal to this book's gimmick, and I've never fully agreed that such hide and seek was fully worthwhile.Todd Masonhttp://www.socialistjazz.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com