Archive for June, 2010
Ross MacDonald- The Moving Target (1949)
Posted by labeau on June 23rd, 2010 filed in books
This is the first of the Lew Archer books—-a detective series that eventually stretched to 18 novels and 3 short story collections. The series was popular during its run (from 1946, when the character first appeared in the story “Find the Woman,” to 1976, when the final installment “The Blue Hammer” was published) and inspired [...]
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Posted by labeau on June 10th, 2010 filed in books
Originally published in 1949. Frederic Brown was a creature of the pulps, a master of several genres, with stories ready to go for whichever magazines was willing to buy them. When Keith Winton, the pulp editor hero of this novel, finds himself lost in an alternate universe where Earth is under attack by creatures from [...]
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