I've still only read the one so far, but I have no doubt that they're all top quality. I love the Black Widowers stories, but Bradbury's stuff is going to be so different that they'll be hard to compare. Asimov's stories are pure logic and deduction worked out as a thought experiment by a bunch of talking heads sitting around a table, while Bradbury's are going to be prose poems illustrating some element of the human condition.
^^ That's fascinating. If Bradbury's mysteries, I'll read them for sure. I'm thirsty for good mysteries, especially those with some kind of sci-fi angle to them.
I have a book put aside for Halloween called Shadows Over Baker Street which involves Sherlock Holmes and the Lovecraft Mythos. I'll see what else I can think of.
Yeah, I'm excited to get into it, as soon as I finish Stranger in a Strange Land. The other book I'll be reading for Halloween is Quest for Cthulhu, by August Derleth (I've always wondered if you pronounce that like August 31st or like august edifice).
The collection appears to be still in print. If you like Black Widowers, you will probably like these stories. It's kind of like a cross between Black Widowers and "The World of Commander McBragg."
I'm still working my way through the Solar Pons collections and I recently finished volume 5 and, while the stories were still excellent, the editing and formatting were horrible. Quotes run together, so it's hard to tell who's talking and paragraphs split and indent randomly. It's very distracting. Since it's an e-book you'd think they could polish it and re-upload it.
Before I start on volume 6, which is a couple of novels, I'm dipping into an anthology of new Domino Lady stories called Sex As A Weapon. The theme of this anthology is that she meets various other fictional adventurers. The first story I read was "The Strange Case of the Domino Lady and Mr. Holmes" by Nancy Holder, which obviously teams Domino with Sherlock. The MacGuffin of the story is the theft of the last vial of Henry Jekyll's formula, which was a great idea-- that the writer unfortunately did nothing with. It was literally just a MacGuffin to create a reason for the sexually liberated Domino Lady to meet and interact with the elderly and studious Holmes, which was magical. As a character study, it was pure perfection. She just should have saved the Jekyll formula for another story.
I read another story from the Domino Lady: Sex As A Weapon anthology, "Masks of Madness," by Martin Powell. She meets The Phantom in this one (and kind of gets to be a Jungle Girl, briefly). She also discovers the identity of the man who killed her father and tracks him down, which really surprised me-- I thought that would be one of those things that remained a mystery forever.
I found it at DriveThruFiction, which has a ton of great Pulp-related titles, most of them available for download (although I have the paperback of that particular book).
Man, it's been a long time since we dusted off this thread. I guess that's because I've been mostly dipping randomly into the various anthologies I've got lying around.
But today the new Jack McDevitt novel, Village in the Sky. It will be nice to visit with Chase and Alex again.
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