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News
& What's New - September 2012 |
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Cover
reveal: The Mad Goblin |
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Sep 2012
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Recycling
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27
Sep 2012
When
I wrote the previous entry, about the new Italian publications, I
noticed a remarkable coincidence. On three books exactly the same
zeppelin. Have a look at these pictures, on which you can click to
see them larger.
The three books are: Il grande disegno (The Dark Design,
Fanucci, 2012), Sense of
Wonder (anthology with the story "Riverworld",
Wildside Press/Swordsmith Books, 2011) and The
Wind Whales of Ishmael (Titan Books, to be published in March
2013).
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"Ciclo
del Mondo del Fiume" in Italy |
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26
Sep 2012
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Frenta |
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French
books |
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21
Sep 2012
While
in France I visited several book shops, with new or second hand books.
Alas, only two books were found for my collection. One in a better
condition than the one I already had, and the other one is the 11th
printing of Le Monde du fleuve (To
Your Scattered Bodies Go), from October 2011.
This edition has been added on the book page.
I found only about twenty other French Farmer books, but they
already were included in my collection.
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Manchu |
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The Song
of Kwasin : WOW! |
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20
Sep 2012
I
am just back from a vacation in France. My wife and I had a great time
over there and very lovely weather. We both had the time to read a lot
of books. One of the books that I read of course was Gods
of Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa.
Let's start with a huge compliment to Christopher Paul Carey for
finishing the third Opar / Khokarsa novel, The
Song of Kwasin. I enjoyed this novel immensely!
I did not grow up with the Tarzan stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs. I
read some Tarzan comics and saw some of the older Tarzan movies. That
was it. Tarzan did not very much appeal to me. I certainly did not
share Philip José Farmer's love with the Tarzan stories.
So, when Phil wrote the first two Opar novels I had my doubts at the
time if I
would like to read them. I did read them, more than thirty years ago,
and I must
admit that I discovered –much to my own surprise–
that I liked them very much! For years I hoped that Phil
would write more novels in the series, but that never happened. He had
promised to write more Opar novels (see Announced
books), but didn't, and finally announced a third and final
novel in the series, Kwasin
of Opar. We never saw that novel in print.
Until Carey got Phil's permission to finish this once started novel,
which has now been published as The
Song of Kwasin.
I started of course rereading the first two Opar / Khokarsa novels, Hadon
of Ancient Opar and Flight to Opar. After more
than thirty years I remembered some of the story, but none of the
details anymore.
I liked them even more than when I first read them, maybe because this
time I
wasn't so skeptical about the novels. I enjoyed both novels and could
not stop reading.
And then to The Song of
Kwasin.
The biggest difference with the first two novels is that the story is
not about Hadon, but about the adventures of his cousin Kwasin. But the
novel reads and feels like the other two, full of action, treachery,
bravery, religious beliefs, love, sex, and battles. Many battles.
Kwasin is a
real fighter, together with his battle-ax.
Written in a style, like it was written by Farmer some thirty years
ago. Chris has done a great job completing the novel, and he has done
me –and I know many other readers– a great joy with
it.
I sure would love more Opar / Khokarsa novels, but I'm very
glad that we finally have this third and concluding novel. It was very
nice to be back
again in ancient Africa, on a tremendous trip. It left me breathless.
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Bob Eggleton |
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Books |
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages this month.
 1770
publications
1159 different
covers
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