First, love what you're doing. My dream is somehow buying the rights for Doc Savage from Berkeley to reprint the entire set again, in chronological as printed order, with the new works of Will Murray added into the timeline. Dreams, ah but aren't they wonderful?
Anyway, my question is one of rights. When you hunt up these stories do you contact the respective estates to see if there are unpublished works stashed in a cabinent somewhere to publish? Or do you just seek reprint rights to gather everything together that's already seen the printed page in a single package?
Doc Savage was part of what got me into specfic. I would so love to see the set published in its entirety, chronologically to original appearance, with the newer works from Will Murray added into the timeline. I'd love to see it all in a uniform series design, with the Bantam Bama & Whelan covers (wonder if he would consider new work? I hear he is still alive and painting.).
Just as an aside, Erik, I was rereading a great book by E. Hoffman Price that you'd no doubt love.
Book of the Dead--Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers & Others
ISBN 087054179X
Great Arkham House collection of his reminisces and eulogies of all the pulp writers he met over his career. 9 page chapter on Kuttner, including some interesting bits about a visit with Price to Clark Ashton Smith.
Looking forward to more Kuttner; if there's a few anthos or things eluding you, let me know titles and I'll pop over to Argos books, as I think they have some Kuttner stuff in their ample stacks.
I've only read one Moore/Kuttner collaboration - The last Citadel, and it was pretty great. Very much an A. Merritt style story, with World War 2 spies thrown forward to the last days of Earth.
Interesting stuff! I look forward to future posts (and ultimately the anthology).
I think you're right not to take Moskowitz too seriously. For me the defining Kuttner trait is deftness. I'm not sure how to put it otherwise; it seems to me that whatever he does in a story he does on purpose and for a very good storytelling reason.
It's difficult to avoid once you get into the 40s, even on the stuff with only one author's name in the byline. I'm starting with the oldest stuff that I have first, though, so I may focus on the pre-marriage material if possible.
At the very least, the anthology will include stories published exclusively under Kuttner's name or one of his pseudonyms (Will Garth, Keith Hammond, etc.). I don't plan to include any Lewis Padgett material, since most of those are collaborations with Catherine and that material is more likely to have been reprinted.
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First, love what you're doing. My dream is somehow buying the rights for Doc Savage from Berkeley to reprint the entire set again, in chronological as printed order, with the new works of Will Murray added into the timeline. Dreams, ah but aren't they wonderful?
Anyway, my question is one of rights. When you hunt up these stories do you contact the respective estates to see if there are unpublished works stashed in a cabinent somewhere to publish? Or do you just seek reprint rights to gather everything together that's already seen the printed page in a single package?
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Especially as a bunch have been done recently.
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Doc Savage was part of what got me into specfic. I would so love to see the set published in its entirety, chronologically to original appearance, with the newer works from Will Murray added into the timeline. I'd love to see it all in a uniform series design, with the Bantam Bama & Whelan covers (wonder if he would consider new work? I hear he is still alive and painting.).
Like I said -- dreams. Gotta love 'em!
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Book of the Dead--Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers & Others
ISBN 087054179X
Great Arkham House collection of his reminisces and eulogies of all the pulp writers he met over his career. 9 page chapter on Kuttner, including some interesting bits about a visit with Price to Clark Ashton Smith.
Looking forward to more Kuttner; if there's a few anthos or things eluding you, let me know titles and I'll pop over to Argos books, as I think they have some Kuttner stuff in their ample stacks.
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Thanks for posting your research.
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I think you're right not to take Moskowitz too seriously. For me the defining Kuttner trait is deftness. I'm not sure how to put it otherwise; it seems to me that whatever he does in a story he does on purpose and for a very good storytelling reason.
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Anthology? So you will have with-Moore stories in ther too not just Kuttner?
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At the very least, the anthology will include stories published exclusively under Kuttner's name or one of his pseudonyms (Will Garth, Keith Hammond, etc.). I don't plan to include any Lewis Padgett material, since most of those are collaborations with Catherine and that material is more likely to have been reprinted.
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You are probably right as far as the famous short stories goes - maybe not as much for the novels that are collaborations?
Older sounds simpler, anyway!
Have you read We Guard the Black Planet? Which is a pretty cool title, too, possibly nickable for collections.
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What's it about?
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