tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post8682883125245928356..comments2024-03-28T04:15:00.814-07:00Comments on Jerry's House of Everything: FORGOTTEN BOOKS: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER EDITIONJerry Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-59187492544699418492012-11-23T16:25:43.452-08:002012-11-23T16:25:43.452-08:00Mahaffey was around for this one (and for the next...Mahaffey was around for this one (and for the next four issues of OTHER WORLDS SCIENCE STORIES). In fact, she had a filler piece in this issue of UNIVERSE titled "I'm Bea." (Palmer also had a piece titled "I'm Ray.")<br /><br />Caravan's four other stories were published in F&SF -- one of which was a version of the story purloined by Palmer.Jerry Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-46457139572604106282012-11-23T16:18:36.023-08:002012-11-23T16:18:36.023-08:00This was actually the first St. Clair novel I have...This was actually the first St. Clair novel I have read, Todd, but I have always enjoyed her stories, both under her own name and as "Idris Seabright." A far better introduction to St. Clair would be 1985's THE BEST OF MARGARET ST. CLAIR, edited by Marty Greenberg. For me, I think I'll concentrate on her later novels from now on.Jerry Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-67570975129757567782012-11-23T15:08:56.238-08:002012-11-23T15:08:56.238-08:00Meanwhile, I can only agree, as far as I got with ...Meanwhile, I can only agree, as far as I got with a copy of THE GREEN QUEEN I picked up somewhere, years back, and put down again quickly without getting very far with it...St. Clair's worst published work I'd read, and still, with any opportunity for improvement, probably as you suggest a potential contender.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-60695102688101402922012-11-23T15:05:28.430-08:002012-11-23T15:05:28.430-08:00Ah, well. He also published a lot of good work, if...Ah, well. He also published a lot of good work, if not nearly as much as the hack and the ballyhoo nonsense, was the last steady market for Edgar Rice Burroughs, and was a steady market for decent work by Robert Bloch and the emerging William McGivern. "T.P. Caravan" also published in F&SF, with better work, no doubt. Had Bea Mahaffey left UNIVERSE by this time? Probably...but when the magazine started, with the other split off part of OTHER WORLDS called simply SCIENCE STORIES and still more under Palmer's direct control, UNIVERSE was publishing the likes of Theodore Sturgeon's "The World Well Lost"...and I suspect it wasn't as much the sf titles weren't selling reasonably well, in the depressed sf market of the late '50s, as they didn't sell as well as FATE. And, as you almost note, Palmer wasn't the only major editor to eventually specialize in pernicious bullshit to the detriment of the fiction he published, and to society as a whole to some extent.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com