tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post670080992687811883..comments2024-03-28T16:17:20.965-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Forgotten Books: THE EUREKA YEARS -- Annette Peltz McComas, Editormybillcriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-31797615367341252112010-10-15T21:23:16.517-05:002010-10-15T21:23:16.517-05:00Bantam's malicious nonchalance was Just That G...Bantam's malicious nonchalance was Just That Good. Algis Budrys reviewed it for F&SF, I believe, which is probably how I was first aware of it.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-88026872800630454552010-10-15T20:06:15.859-05:002010-10-15T20:06:15.859-05:00I will have to get a copy of this one too. DOn...I will have to get a copy of this one too. DOn't know how I missed it either.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-3646093048908454682010-10-15T19:11:31.003-05:002010-10-15T19:11:31.003-05:00What I remember best about this (some twenty-five ...What I remember best about this (some twenty-five years after reading it) is, as others have said, the correspondence between the editors and the authors. As a non-author, I always pictured editors making vague generalizations about what is wrong with a story; I was amazed at how specific the suggestions really were. I especially recall one of the editors telling the then-unpublished Zenna Henderson some things that might improve a story she had submitted. Then you read the story, "Come On, Wagon" and realize Henderson had incorporated every suggestion - but the story somehow stayed clearly her work.SteveHLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01745665231586422220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-91369617184444216852010-10-15T18:52:18.945-05:002010-10-15T18:52:18.945-05:00I remember being steered to this title by someone ...I remember being steered to this title by someone on FidoNet lo, these many years ago. I had to use the 'Net to get a copy, as I'd never seen it on either the new or used shelves. It quickly became one of my favorites, and I was delighted when my then-new editor, Mark Kreighbaum at the SFWA BULLETIN, green-lighted it.Bud Websternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-64432733368274238032010-10-15T18:07:39.320-05:002010-10-15T18:07:39.320-05:00My copy went walkabout a number of years ago, so r...My copy went walkabout a number of years ago, so recently I've been haunting the thrift stores trying to find a copy for a quarter or so. I'm afraid I'm going to have to go online and actually buy a copy at a fair price.Jerry Housenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-83852449770315320182010-10-15T11:58:19.500-05:002010-10-15T11:58:19.500-05:00Clearly, I should've done this one as an FFB y...Clearly, I should've done this one as an FFB years ago...maybe when Jeff Segal stumbled across it about the time FFB was beginning, and had his doors blown off by it, too...ONCE AND FUTURE TALES, anyone?Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-69835345405006212302010-10-15T11:26:43.693-05:002010-10-15T11:26:43.693-05:00I wish more collections and anthologies would incl...I wish more collections and anthologies would include correspondence between the editors and authors, although with e-mail and texts, I guess that's never going to happen these days. (You're more likely to find it piece-meal on blogs.) I'll have to track this one down for the hubster, who is particularly a sci-fi fiction fan.BV Lawsonhttp://inreferencetomurder.typepad.com/my_weblog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-12259445777535014772010-10-15T10:38:27.617-05:002010-10-15T10:38:27.617-05:00Definitely should have mentioned McComas, and it w...Definitely should have mentioned McComas, and it was his wife who put the book together. The letters are priceless. I'm sorry I missed this, but it's great to have it now.mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-22282533285911793672010-10-15T10:02:41.449-05:002010-10-15T10:02:41.449-05:00Well, Bantam threw it onto the bookshelves and pac...Well, Bantam threw it onto the bookshelves and packaged it rather awkwardly (albeit that's a better cover than Doubleday gave nearly ANY of the BEST OF F&SFs...and the less said of the 1970s Ace covers for the paperbacks of those volumes, the better). The loving care with which they didn't care about the book is indicated by the (iirc) unpaginated table of contents. But it's a very good book to have, with the editorial correpsondence actually better reading than a few of the stories (it's not a best of). And I really should've dropped a line in my FFB just now about McComas co-founding F&SF, as should you, Bill...you get a slightly better sense of McComas's role with this book than with any other from the magazine, given how much more forceful a literary presence Boucher was.<br /><br />But, really, guys, how'd you miss it?Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-26183272342809265382010-10-15T07:39:46.011-05:002010-10-15T07:39:46.011-05:00Wow! I've never heard of this book, either. ...Wow! I've never heard of this book, either. I'm tracking down a copy now. Have fun at BOUCHERCON!Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-80537524546104646252010-10-15T07:23:51.080-05:002010-10-15T07:23:51.080-05:00Thanks, Bill and hope you are having fun.Thanks, Bill and hope you are having fun.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com