With my friend Christopher Paul Carey now officially continuing the Opar series begun so long ago by Philip Jose Farmer, I've decided it's time to reread the first book and finally read the rest of the series ( Read more... )

A few years back, noticing a deficiency in my reading history, I set myself to reading all of the original Sherlock Holmes short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I made it through the first two collections and then fell off. This year, I'm resetting myself the challenge, but also including all of the original Doyle novels. I may or may not reread ( Read more... )

2015 Book 97: Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-Fifth Street: The Life and Times of America's Largest Detective by William S. Baring-Gould; isbn 9780670413720; 203 pages; Viking; hardcover; $25.00 (used copy; $5.50 original cover price)

The Premise: (from Goodreads): The private life of America’s favorite detective is finally revealed! William S. Baring- ( Read more... )

2015 Book 82: Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street by William S. Baring-Gould; isbn 9780517038178; 300 pages; Clarkson Potter; softcover; $5.00

The Premise: (from the Goodreads page) Although millions know of Sherlock Holmes through the chronicles of his exploits written by Dr. Watson, it is only now that, owing to his recent death, the full biography ( Read more... )

2015 Book 66: Venus on the Half-Shell  by Philip Jose Farmer writing as Kilgore Trout; isbn 9781781163061; 314 pages; Titan Books; softcover; $12.95

The Premise: (from the back cover page)  When the planet is destroyed during a botched cleaning operation, Simon Wagstaff narrowly escapes the deluge on an abandoned Chinese spaceship and becomes ( Read more... )

2015 Book 19: Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows by Josh Reynolds, isbn 9780983746164, Meteor House, 124 pgs, $15.00

The Premise: (from the Goodreads page): The Other Log of Phileas Fogg was only the beginning! It is 1889 and Phileas Fogg has settled into a life of quiet sequestration in the rural idyll of his family estate with his wife and ( Read more... )

Book 48: Tales of Jack the Ripper edited by Ross E. Lockhart,  isbn: 9781939905000, Word Horde, 245 pages, $15.99

The Premise: (from Goodreads page) 1888: A killer stalks the streets of London’s Whitechapel district, brutally-some would say ritualistically-murdering women. With each slaying, the killer grows bolder, his crimes more extreme. So far ( Read more... )

Book 33: HONEY WEST & T.H.E. CAT: A GIRL AND HER CAT  by Win Scott Eckert and Matthew Baugh,  isbn: 9781936814671, Moonstone Books, 143 pages, $26.95

The Premise: (from the Goodreads page) When an exotic green-eyed Asian doctor hires Honey to recover a stolen sample of a new influenza vaccine from a rival scientist, the blonde bombshell private ( Read more... )

Book 32: Tales of the Wold Newton Universe  by Philip Jose Farmer, edited by Win Scott Eckert and Christopher Paul Carey, isbn: 9781781163047, Titan Books, 492 pages, $15.95

The Premise: (from the back cover): On December 13, 1795, a meteorite plunged to Earth, landing near the sleepy Yorkshire village of Wold Newton. As the star fell, seven ( Read more... )

Oh, and did I mention the TOC for Volume 10 of TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN has been posted to the Black Coat Press website?  http://www.blackcoatpress.com/talesshadowmen10.htmhttp://www.blackcoatpress.com/talesshadowmen10.htmMy story "So Much Loss," which focuses on Doctor ( Read more... )