#anthony boucher

[magic-space-games]

This segment from the introduction to New Tales of Space and Time is my go-to antidote to doomerism, especially that last line. Anthony Boucher really said fuck your doom and gloom, and fuck your lack of faith in humanity, the future's gonna be better, and we're gonna make it together.

@hopepunk-humanity

#hopepunk #anthony boucher #new tales of space and time

[gtetrahedron]

Other Worlds, Other Gods

finished "other worlds, other gods" a '71 short story collection focusing on religion in science fiction. lots of it is real pulpy, with only the slightest hints of new wave shining through (mostly via john brunner), but its some good pulp. not a long or heavy read, only a day or two.

most of the stories were from the late 50s and early 60s, with a few from the 40s and late 60s. highlights include lee suttons soul mate, john brunners the vitanuls, anthony bouchers the quest for saint aquin, and damon knights shall the dust praise thee. 

i would recommend it with the caveat that theres nothing super weird, unfortunately (which would be my main criticism). it mostly stuck to christianity (primarily catholicism!) and pastiches of such, with a few jewish cameos and one of hinduism and buddhism each. no alien religions, really. weirdest one was definitely soul mate. nothing ubik-level, lol.

side-note if any of my followers is more learned in hinduism: id be curious about your reading of the vitanuls; im not sure how accurate of a representation it is, being written by a brit, but it seems decent enough? i have very little knowledge of the religion, though, and am supremely unconfident saying that.

#literature #scifi #new wave #short story #short stories #review #john brunner #arthur c clarke #anthony boucher #damon knight #lee sutton #pulp sci fi #pulp science fiction #pulp art #aliens #religion #i would have tagged this with bookblr but from what i can tell that tag is comprised #entirely of people taking dark academia pictures #lol

[ratlas-t-ratlas]

Shoutout to Dee at the county library who just helped me find the werewolf short story I've been trying to find again for over five years, you're a real one.

It was 'The Compleat Werewolf' by Anthony Boucher, coincidentally also free as part of project Gutenberg! It's so much goddamn fun. It's about Professor Wolfe Wolf who gets dumped by his girlfriend, gets drunk with a wizard who teaches him how to turn into a wolf, and spends the next few weeks trying to figure out how this will help him get his girlfriend back. Did I mention he solves crimes?

Anyway, read it right now! It's free! No one can stop you!

https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/bouchera-compleatwerewolf/bouchera-compleatwerewolf-00-h.html

#werewolf #werewolves #the compleat werewolf #short stories #books & libraries #public libraries #support libraries #anthony boucher

[veryslowreader]

A Treasury of Great Science Fiction

To the Stars

#a treasury of great science fiction #anthony boucher #to the stars #kara hayward

[bookmaven]

PILGRIMAGE: THE BOOK OF THE PEOPLE by Zenna Henderson (Garden City, Doubleday, 1961) Cover art by Mel Hunter. // (London: Gollancz, 1962)

PILGRIMAGE is a ‘fix-up novel’ of Henderson’s first six stories about The People, a society whose members control special psychic abilities. The stories premiered separately in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher, and were later “refurbished” into the longer form.

“Ararat” — October, 1952

“Gilead” — August, 1954

“Pottage” — September, 1955

“Wilderness” — January 1957

“Captivity” — June, 1958

“Jordan” — March, 1959

“Wilderness”, January 1957. Cover by Paul Blaisdell. // “Captivity”, June 1958. Cover by Mel Hunter.

(New York: Avon, 1965) Cover by Neil Boyle. // (London: Panther, 1965) Cover by Michael Leonard. // (New York: Avon, 1965) Cover by Hector Garrido.

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[thegothiclibrary]

Humorous Ghost Stories

Not every ghost story has to be terrifying! Indeed, horror and humor are surprisingly similar modes of writing—both depend on eliciting certain emotional reactions from the reader through carefully timed revelations and unexpected juxtapositions. Horror can all too easily give way into unintentional humor, as any connoisseur of schlocky B-movies can tell you. But that blurred line can also be…

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#Anthony Boucher #Christmas ghost stories #ghost stories #horror #humor #John Kendricks Bangs #oscar wilde #Short stories #The Canterville Ghost #The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall #Ye Goode Olde Ghoste Storie

[theamazingstories]

RETRO REVIEW –STAR SCIENCE FICTION #2 (1954)

Figure 1 Srar Science Fiction #2 Cover by John Berkey I had planned to review the British (Sky) science fiction series, The Lazarus Project, now about to enter Season 2, for this week; it’s pure SF with only a minimum of technobabble (just enough to enable the premise), but I think I’ll need to devote a lot of thought to how one can review a continuing series without entirely spoiling the whole…

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#"Upstairs #“The Marching Morons” #“The Seventh Victim” #$7.99 (CDN) #A.J. Budrys #Alfred Bester #Amazon.ca #Anthony Boucher #Ballantine Books #Bill Mumy #C. M. Kornbluth #Column 372 #copyright 1954 #Darker Than You Think #David Duncan #Downstairs" #Downton Abbey #Due South #E.E. Doc Smith #Eight Keys to Eden #Famous Monsters of Filmland #Fletcher Pratt #Forrest J. Ackerman #Frederik Pohl #Galactic Derelict #Groff Conklin #Hal Clement #Harry Stubbs #J. Francis McComas #Jack Williamson

[hisfearlesshaz]

How to cope with your friend being murdered by mexican bandits

a guide by Anthony Boucher

Step one: pick up a paper cutter said friend gifted you

Step two: say naaah, and pick up a pencil instead

Step three: write a threnody

Step four: fry an egg (!!)

#???? #ok sam whatever you say #anthony boucher #short crime story #this is me not wanting to do my homework’s

[sharry-arry-odd]

He went through all the proper mental processes for saying /Absarka!/ but all that came out of his muzzle was a sort of clicking whine. And he was still a conservatively dressed and helpless wolf.

Unnatural Creatures, stories selected by Neil Gaiman “The Compleat Werewolf”, by Anthony Boucher

#page 312 #the compleat werewolf #anthony boucher #unnatural creatures #stories selected by #neil gaiman #fantasy #supernatural #creature #werewolf #absarka! #quote #quotes #literature #book #booklr #reading

[parkstone-international]

Capturing Brilliance: 1000 Portraits of Genius Illuminate the World

Capturing Brilliance: 1000 Portraits of Genius Illuminate the World

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#1000 Portraits of Genius #Albrecht Dürer #Amedeo Modigliani #Anthony van Dyck #Arcimboldo #Art #Art History #book #Caravaggio #Chuck Close #ebook #Edgar Degas #Fra Angelico #François Boucher #Frans Hals #Gainsborough #Gauguin #Genius #Goya #Gustav Caillebotte #Gustave Courbet #Hans Holbein #Hans Memling #history #Hopper #Jacques-Louis David #Jean Fouquet #Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres #John Constable #kindle book

[nofatclips]

Des noeuds dans les doigts by Thierry Larose - Réalisation: Anthony Coveney

#music #canadian music #thierry larose #jean étienne collin marcoux #tim buron #lou adriane cassidy #marianne boucher #phil gosselin #charles antoine olivier #bravo musique #alexandre martel #music video #yan bienvenue #xavier bossé #anthony coveney #marie florence gagnon #thomas d'auteuil #thomas d’auteuil #video

[radiofreeskaro]

Radio Free Skaro #884 - Holiday Special Deathmatch

Radio Free Skaro #884 - Holiday Special Deathmatch - #DoctorWho trailer talk! - Holiday Special Deathmatch! - w/guests @HollyGoDarkly and @xanister!

http://traffic.libsyn.com/freyburg/rfs884.mp3 Download MP3 Happy Holidays all and especially a Happy Boxing Day to those in Canada and the UK. And quite a sock to the jaw it was to see a Doctor Who 60th anniversary trailer on Xmas Day! Still nothing new with Ncuti Gatwa’s incarnation of the Doctor but we do have more of Tennant’s Who the 14th, Donna Noble, and most importantly, Beep The Meep!…

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#60th Anniversay #Big Finish #Blair Shedd #Chris Boucher #Christopher Jones #Daisy Ashford #Daniel Anthony #Gallifrey One #Jamie Magnus Stone #Jon Culshaw #Katy Manning #Kenny Smith #Lauren Cornelius #Mark Tonderai #Matt Fitton #Obituary #Patrick O&039;Kane #Ruth Madelay #Season 14 #Stephen Greif #Toby Hadoke

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

taylor swift lyrics x colors x textiles in art – blue

Tim McGraw – Taylor Swift // Portrait of Marie-Joseph Peyre – Marie-Suzanne Giroust 💙 Tim McGraw – Taylor Swift // Lady in the Boudoir – Gustav Holweg-Glantschnigg 💙 A Place in This World – Taylor Swift // Portrait of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester – Jean-Étienne Liotard 💙 Dear John – Speak Now // Young Woman in a Blue Dress – Jacopo Negretti 💙 State of Grace – Red // Portrait of Mrs. Matthew Tilghman and her Daughter – John Hesselius 💙 Red – Red // An Unknown Man – Joseph Highmore 💙 All Too Well – Red // Portrait of a Man with a Quilted Sleeve – Titian 💙 Everything Has Changed – Red // Portrait of the Marquis de Saint-Paul – Jean-Baptiste Greuze 💙 Starlight – Red // Mrs. Richard Brown – John Hesselius 💙 Run – Red // Judith with the Head of Holofernes – Felice Ficherelli 💙 This Love – 1989 // Fair Rosamund – John William Waterhouse 💙 Delicate – Reputation // Miss Elizabeth Ingram – Joshua Reynolds 💙 Gorgeous – Reputation // Marguerite Hessein, Lady of Rambouillet de la Sablière – workshop of Henri and Charles Beaubrun 💙 Dancing with Our Hands Tied – Reputation // George Albert, Prince of East Frisia – Johann Conrad Eichler

Cruel Summer – Lover // Peter August Friedrich von Koskull – Michael Ludwig Claus 💙 Lover – Lover // Lady Oxenden – Joseph Wright of Derby 💙 Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince – Lover // Portrait of Ivan Ivanovich Betskoi – Alexander Roslin 💙 Paper Rings – Lover // Young Woman in a Blue Dress – Jacopo Negretti 💙 London Boy – Lover // Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson – Anthony van Dyck 💙 Afterglow – Lover // Portrait of Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn – Fyodor Rokotov 💙 Christmas Tree Farm – Christmas Tree Farm // Portrait of Mary Ruthven, Lady van Dyck – Anthony van Dyck 💙 invisible string – folklore // Two Altar Wings with the Visitation of Mary – unknown artist 💙 invisible string – folklore // Portrait of Madame de Pompadour – François Boucher 💙 peace – folklore // Fair Rosamund – John William Waterhouse 💙 hoax – folklore // Portrait of Charles le Normant du Coudray – Jean-Baptiste Perronneau 💙 coney island – evermore // Portrait of the Marquis de Saint-Paul – Jean-Baptiste Greuze 💙 Carolina – Carolina // Mrs. Daniel Sargent – John Singleton Copley 💙 Bejeweled – Midnights // Elsa Elisabeth Brahe – David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl 💙 The Great War – Midnights // Portrait of Françoise Marie de Bourbon – attributed to François de Troy 💙 Hits Different – Midnights // Mrs. Benjamin Pickman – John Singleton Copley

#taylor swift lyrics x colors x textiles in art #blue #taylor swift debut #speak now #speak now taylor swift #red album #red taylor swift #1989 #1989 album #reputation #reputation taylor swift #lover #lover album #folklore #folklore album #evermore #evermore album #midnights #midnights album #ts edit #tswiftedit #long post #taylor swift

[nem0c]

Vietnam War - Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, June 1968

Sourced from: http://natsmusic.net/articles_galaxy_magazine_viet_nam_war.htm

Transcript Below

We the undersigned believe the United States must remain in Vietnam to fulfill its responsibilities to the people of that country.

Karen K. Anderson, Poul Anderson, Harry Bates, Lloyd Biggle Jr., J. F. Bone, Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mario Brand, R. Bretnor, Frederic Brown, Doris Pitkin Buck, William R. Burkett Jr., Elinor Busby, F. M. Busby, John W. Campbell, Louis Charbonneau, Hal Clement, Compton Crook, Hank Davis, L. Sprague de Camp, Charles V. de Vet, William B. Ellern, Richard H. Eney, T. R. Fehrenbach, R. C. FitzPatrick, Daniel F. Galouye, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert M. Green Jr., Frances T. Hall, Edmond Hamilton, Robert A. Heinlein, Joe L. Hensley, Paul G. Herkart, Dean C. Ing, Jay Kay Klein, David A. Kyle, R. A. Lafferty, Robert J. Leman, C. C. MacApp, Robert Mason, D. M. Melton, Norman Metcalf, P. Schuyler Miller, Sam Moskowitz, John Myers Myers, Larry Niven, Alan Nourse, Stuart Palmer, Gerald W. Page, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Lawrence A. Perkins, Jerry E. Pournelle, Joe Poyer, E. Hoffmann Price, George W. Price, Alva Rogers, Fred Saberhagen, George O. Smith, W. E. Sprague, G. Harry Stine (Lee Correy), Dwight V. Swain, Thomas Burnett Swann, Albert Teichner, Theodore L. Thomas, Rena M. Vale, Jack Vance, Harl Vincent, Don Walsh Jr., Robert Moore Williams, Jack Williamson, Rosco E. Wright, Karl Würf.

We oppose the participation of the United States in the war in Vietnam.

Forrest J. Ackerman, Isaac Asimov, Peter S. Beagle, Jerome Bixby, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Lyle G. Boyd, Ray Bradbury, Jonathan Brand, Stuart J. Byrne, Terry Carr, Carroll J. Clem, Ed M. Clinton, Theodore R. Cogswell, Arthur Jean Cox, Allan Danzig, Jon DeCles, Miriam Allen deFord, Samuel R. Delany, Lester del Rey, Philip K. Dick, Thomas M. Disch, Sonya Dorman, Larry Eisenberg, Harlan Ellison, Carol Emshwiller, Philip José Farmer, David E. Fisher, Ron Goulart, Joseph Green, Jim Harmon, Harry Harrison, H. H. Hollis, J. Hunter Holly, James D. Houston, Edward Jesby, Leo P. Kelley, Daniel Keyes, Virginia Kidd, Damon Knight, Allen Lang, March Laumer, Ursula K. LeGuin, Fritz Leiber, Irwin Lewis, A. M. Lightner, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Katherine MacLean, Barry Malzberg, Robert E. Margroff, Anne Marple, Ardrey Marshall, Bruce McAllister, Judith Merril, Robert P. Mills, Howard L. Morris, Kris Neville, Alexei Panshin, Emil Petaja, J. R. Pierce, Arthur Porges, Mack Reynolds, Gene Roddenberry, Joanna Russ, James Sallis, William Sambrot, Hans Stefan Santesson, J. W. Schutz, Robin Scott, Larry T. Shaw, John Shepley, T. L. Sherred, Robert Silverberg, Henry Slesar, Jerry Sohl, Norman Spinrad, Margaret St. Clair, Jacob Transue, Thurlow Weed, Kate Wilhelm, Richard Wilson, Donald A. Wollheim.

#sf #vietnam war #galaxy science fiction

[bloodgulchblog]

Lmao so I finally started reading that old sf zine discussion from the 60s about Starship Troopers.

Anthony Boucher provided a reprint of a review he wrote.

Kill him, Tony.

Of note there is overall a great deal of concern about who is this book intended for? from multiple writers.

The book was listed both for adults and for 12 and up in the publisher's catalog sections.

Dean McLaughlin has a long letter from the following month and I'm still not done with him but he's off to a good start:

#starship troopers #not halo

[bookmaven]

JUDGEMENT NIGHT by C.L. Moore (New York: Gnome Press, ) Cover art by Frank Kelly Freas.

Astounding Science-Fiction v31 #6, August 1943 edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover by William Timmins

JUDGEMENT NIGHT by C.L. Moore. Illustrated by A. Williams [Part 1 of 2]

“The Mutant’s Brother” by Fritz Leiber, Jr. Illustrated by F. Kramer

“One-Way Trip” by Anthony Boucher. Illustrated by Kolliker

“Endowment Policy” by Lewis Padgett. Illustrated by Hall

“M 33 in Andromeda” by A.E. van Vogt. Illustrated by A. Williams [Beagle]

“When Is When?” by Malcolm Jameson. Illustrated by F. Kramer [Anachron, Inc.]

(New York: Popular Library, 1965) Cover artist unknown. // [aka LA NUIT DU JUGEMENT] (Paris: J’ai Lu, 1966) Cover art by Wojtek Siudmak.

#book blog #books #books books books #book cover #pulp art #science fiction #science fantasy #beautiful books #c.l. moore #frank kelly freas #gnome press #astounding #william timmons