Mark Hodgson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Mark Hodgson

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

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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

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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

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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

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Author and physician Alan Edward Nourse wrote sci-fi, some with a futuristic surgical angle, like Star Surgeon. The BladeRunner was about a kid who literally ran around supplying surgical kits (including knives) to illegally practising surgeons. Nourse also wrote medical texts. https://t.co/OTHgihkDk3

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#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

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F Paul Wilson’s The Tomb from #NewEnglishLibrary also arrived today. Still haven’t read The Keep! https://t.co/aRrSm09aWN

Mark Hodgson

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

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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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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