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| Posted By : chuck g. - 10/12/2005 4:49 AM | Hello everyone,
Just wanted to introduce myself and ask a question. I'm a big fan of sword and planet, especially the Llarn books by Fox and the Prescott of Antares books by Bulmer, and most of Leigh Brackett's fantasies. I see Amazon has Best of Planet Stories#1 and was wondering if anyone has read it. Are the stories sword and sorcery or are they more science fiction? Even though I love this genre, I had never heard of Planet Stories until I read about it on this forum. Thanks for providing a place for those of us who enjoy a good action packed story.
Chuck |
| Posted By : John Hocking - 10/12/2005 5:00 AM | Hi Chuck,
The book is good.
'Planet Stories' was the Throbbing Purple Heart of Space Opera, so most of the tales in the book are science fiction, albeit of the pulpy/mythic variety that casts Mars as an arid desert studded with the ruins of a lost civilization, and Venus as a swampy jungle full of dinosaurs and giant insects.
There's a little sword & planet in there, but it's basically old school s.f.
John |
| Posted By : MichaelEhart - 10/12/2005 7:43 AM | Hyeas chuck, and welcome! Any fan of Llarn will fit in just fine here!
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| Posted By : erazmus - 10/12/2005 7:59 AM | Planet stories was well discribed by John, but I got to add that they had the best cheezy cover art in the genre! I love the cool/ corny covers so much I include the title in my pulp wants, even though my reading leans toward the weird tales sort of writing.
Mike
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| Posted By : John Hocking - 10/12/2005 8:11 AM | Ahem.
Why, look!
It's a French site with all the covers!
http://www.noosfere.com/showcase/planet_stories_page_1.htm
My favorite?
Summer, 1944.
Or Ete, 1944, if you're French.
Sweet Ishtar but that's beautiful. |
| Posted By : erazmus - 10/12/2005 8:26 AM | Thanks John, that rocks!
Mike
Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
"Two Ravens" in Amazing Journeys Magazine coming Sept. 05
"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises |
| Posted By : jonesha - 10/12/2005 8:30 AM | Wow, thanks Hocking! Check out winter of 43 with the light saber daggers and that Kuttner tale "Crypt City of the Deathless One!" Damn but I'd love to read that...
All those names by authors I love, along side folks I've never heard of, too. Shame they don't reprint those in omnibuses or something. SOMEONE really should do that.
best,
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| Posted By : PaulMc - 10/12/2005 8:42 AM | quote:
Originally posted by John Hocking
It's a French site with all the covers!
http://www.noosfere.com/showcase/planet_stories_page_1.htm
My favorite?
Summer, 1944.
Or Ete, 1944, if you're French.
Sweet Ishtar but that's beautiful.
Dammit! I'm trying to get work done here! {easily distracted by all the pretty covers ... oooooo ....}
-- Paul McNamee
http://writer.paulmcnamee.net
http://www.dorancoyle.net |
| Posted By : Bruce Durham - 10/12/2005 11:07 AM | Wow. What a hockey-sock full of talent. I like that each cover has a damsel in distress. And the price...
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| Posted By : MichaelEhart - 10/12/2005 11:12 AM | Wow! How could any kid of 12 pass by a magazine stand and not pick up a mag with covers like those? Every one a pulpy beauty, and I agree--- I want to read them. In truth, many of the stories probably sucked, but it was a glowing, golden-age sort of suckation.
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| Posted By : erazmus - 10/12/2005 11:44 AM | They probably did suck, but like the blind pig and the acorn some are probably brilliant. And with covers like those . . .
Mike
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| Posted By : jonesha - 10/12/2005 12:36 PM | Check out how much Brackett and Kuttner you see slapped across there. Now THOSE didn't suck, almost certainly...
Chris, didn't Poul Anderson have some outrageous planetary Viking tales in Planet Stories? Or was it another mag?
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| Posted By : baritsu6 - 10/12/2005 3:05 PM | anderson had 3 sword and planet or sorcery mixes in planet magazine--two were reprinted----one was never reprinted.----all were good blood and thunder-----witch of the demon sea and the swordsman of lost terra were reprinted---the virgin of valkarion was not----i think the reprints can be found in1] SWORDSMAN IN THE SKY and 2]swords against tomorrow-------ralph
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| Posted By : jonesha - 10/12/2005 4:01 PM | Thanks Ralph. I actually HAVE both of those but have been too busy with the master's degree to crack them open. I've accumulated books in the last two years that I ahven't had time to read.
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| Posted By : erazmus - 10/12/2005 9:41 PM | I think Greg Bear and his wife, Poul's daughter, controll his literary estate now, maybe that third story is available to a certain on-line magazine . . .
Mike
Michael D. Turner
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| Posted By : jonesha - 10/12/2005 10:05 PM | Well now, Mike, that would be pretty darned swell--how does one get ahold of these folks? And would they even be interested in doing business with a guy who doesn't pay for reprints?
Still, an exciting thought.
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| Posted By : erazmus - 10/12/2005 10:11 PM | Howard,
I don't have Gregs address, haven't talked to him since high school, but I bet he has a web page, being a best selling science fiction author and all. He's also active with the science fiction museum, he's on the board, and probably has an e-mail address posted somehwere. I'd check the SFWA registry as well.
No rush, the story hasn't seen print in a couple of decades, its not going anywhere.
Mike
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"Two Ravens" in Amazing Journeys Magazine coming Sept. 05
"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises |
| Posted By : MichaelEhart - 10/12/2005 10:20 PM | Are you sure that Karen doesn't have control?
Greg is active on his site, and would undoubtably answer the question.
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| Posted By : erazmus - 10/12/2005 10:20 PM | And for a Paul Anderson story that hasn't seen print since 1953 or so, you might consider offering your going rate for new stories, 'cause when you reprint it, you're going to tell everyone on earth who owns a computer and a lot of them are going to come and see and some of them will stay because of all the other fine things you publish and some of those will buy a copy of Lords of Swords to support you, like I did.
I wouldn't encourage you to pay to reprint a story of mine, or even one by any living author. But _this story_ you might think about doing it for.
Mike
Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
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"Two Ravens" in Amazing Journeys Magazine coming Sept. 05
"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises |
| Posted By : erazmus - 10/12/2005 10:23 PM | Perhaps it is Karen. Still, tracking her down can't be that hard.
Mike
Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
"Two Ravens" in Amazing Journeys Magazine coming Sept. 05
"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises |
| Posted By : MichaelEhart - 10/12/2005 10:32 PM | Not hard at all. I have her business card in my wallet. :)
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| Posted By : MichaelEhart - 10/13/2005 9:12 AM | Emailed Karen Anderson this morning re the story---- we will see what happens.
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| Posted By : jonesha - 10/13/2005 10:13 AM | Wow--well, thanks, Michael. I look forward to hearing what she has to say.
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| Posted By : MichaelEhart - 10/14/2005 6:30 AM | Howard--
I have forwarded Karen's response.
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