Mark Hodgson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and MR Hyde: And Other Tales of Terror
Robert Louis Stevenson
Arrived today, a 1975 #NewEnglishLibrary edition of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with a quite terrifying cover (artist uncredited, but probably Josh Kirby). https://t.co/2MgIZNE6mt
Paperback, 2003
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The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
The best of the cover art inside includes Bruce Pennington’s painting for Lin Carter’s Jandar of Callisto, and Patrick Woodroffe’s for Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War. https://t.co/J55c2uioAs
Paperback, 2009
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Nightmare Alley
William Lindsay Gresham
Still haven’t read William Lindsay Gresham’s Nightmare Alley. But meantime, I’ve found a couple of his short stories in these old digests. https://t.co/lG2ogLJgZI
Paperback, 2010
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Witchfinder General
Ian Cooper
The tie-in paperback for Witchfinder General was a long, dry history lesson. Leaving more fast-paced novels to pick up the slack with fiction from the same era. I’d lost Robert Neill’s Witch Bane with the lurid Witchfinder cash-in cover, and have bought this 1968 edition instead. https://t.co/zOMD6pY1rl
Paperback, 2011
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The Drought
J. G. Ballard
Back to 1974 with #ScienceFictionMonthly number 7. Bruce Pennington on the cover - his art for Clifford Simak’s Out of Their Minds, David Pelham’s painting for JG Ballard’s The Drought , and Karel Thole’s scary art for Brian Aldiss’ Earthworks. #NewEnglishLibrary monthly magazine https://t.co/oQtDTJRtwP
Paperback, 2012
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The Green Brain
Frank Herbert
#ScienceFictionMonthly magazine, from 1974, number 6. Bruce Pennington’s striking cover for Frank Herbert’s The Green Brain as a textless centrefold poster, an interview with artist Eddie Jones and a full page review of new movie release Zardoz! #NewEnglishLibrary https://t.co/ygSZVjdeAF
Paperback, 2002
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The Keep: A Novel of the Adversary Cycle
F. Paul Wilson
F Paul Wilson’s The Tomb from #NewEnglishLibrary also arrived today. Still haven’t read The Keep! https://t.co/aRrSm09aWN
Paperback, 2010
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Blade Runner
Philip K. Dick
To tie-in to the movie release in 1982, Philip K Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? was republished as Blade Runner. There was also a large-type novelisation full of colour photos, and a comic strip adaption. That’s my round-up of early Blade Runner paperbacks! https://t.co/QT6s6yPWQu
Paperback, Mass Market, 2017
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Edge
Adam Stone
Ah, the ‘Fortune’ series by ‘Thomas H Stone’ is actually by Terry Harknett, who wrote hundreds of books under many names, including the highly successful Edge, Adam Steele and Apache western novels. Unknowingly, I already own one of his books, the Fistful of Dollars adaption. https://t.co/3wb1P8NrGm
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Future Shock
Alvin Toffler
Shouldn’t expect a 1970 book of predictions to be accurate now, but the crux of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, is about accelerating change in society and technology, and the effects of an increasing deluge of information… https://t.co/nzDDpvB201
Paperback, Mass Market, 1984
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