I first read RED PLANET when I was twelve or thirteen and a couple of times since then, though it had been many years since the last time. When R.T. covered this one in last Friday’s Forgotten B… more →
Not The Baseball Pitcherrandy Johnson wrote 13 hours ago: I first read RED PLANET when I was twelve or thirteen and a couple of times since then, though it ha … more →
randy Johnson wrote 6 days ago: When Evan Lewis recommended this one back on November 20th, I knew I had to dig this one out and rea … more →
randy Johnson wrote 3 weeks ago: Stephen Marlowe was born Milton Lesser in 1928 and Marlowe was just one of a series of pseudonyms un … more →
Ben Friedlander wrote 1 month ago: I’m a big fan of the University of Michigan’s digital library, Making of America. MOA gi … more →
randy Johnson wrote 1 month ago: My selection this week on Patti Abbott’s Forgotten Books is a pair of westerns featuring a cha … more →
Ben Friedlander wrote 1 month ago: Theodore Parker at Age 39 In 1859, no longer able to speak from a pulpit (he had TB), Theodore Parke … more →
randy Johnson wrote 1 month ago: HAVE GAT-WILL TRAVEL was published in 1957 and gathered together six short stories from the early fi … more →
randy Johnson wrote 1 month ago: My selection this week is a third pick of Frank Gruber’s Johnny Fletcher mystery series. First … more →
Jenny Haddon wrote 1 month ago: Radio 4 is going to dramatise a neglected classic next year and is asking people to vote on which on … more →
randy Johnson wrote 1 month ago: My selection this week is TOP TEN, first published in October,1999. It’s the story of a serial … more →
cynthia wrote 1 month ago: The books that sit on Lynn Neary’s “shelf of constant reproach” are “the boo … more →
randy Johnson wrote 2 months ago: I’m not sure whether my selection this week should be considered science fiction or science fa … more →
cynthia wrote 2 months ago: Poemcrazy: freeing your life with words by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is a book I forgot I had on my … more →
randy Johnson wrote 2 months ago: Last week I posted on one of MacDonald’s science fiction novels and earlier had posted on anot … more →
randy Johnson wrote 2 months ago: WINE OF THE DREAMERS is my selection this week, one of John D. MacDonald’s three science ficti … more →
randy Johnson wrote 2 months ago: My selection for Forgotten Books this week is THE MOONSHINE WAR by Elmore Leonard. This is a new rea … more →
randy Johnson wrote 2 months ago: My selection this week is ARMAGEDDON 2419 A. D., the novel that spawned all things Buck Rogers. All … more →
randy Johnson wrote 3 months ago: Richard Matheson is a remarkably talented writer who’s written novels , short stories, did tel … more →
randy Johnson wrote 4 months ago: Cut Short is not forgotten, but a new book that I feel deserves notice. It’s a first novel, I … more →