Category: Authors

A New Doc Savage novel 0

A New Doc Savage novel

After eighteen years, the publication of a new Doc Savage novel is finally on the horizon. The Desert Demons, written by Lester Dent and Will Murray writing as Kenneth Robeson, makes its debut in...

Buy this album – Tracks in the Dust: Songs from Afghanistan 0

Buy this album – Tracks in the Dust: Songs from Afghanistan

From Kabul, Afghanistan, using random quiet time, personal recording equipment bought and scavanged from everywhere, and a strong love of music, my friend Vince and ten of his comrades in arms have recorded an...

Shadowplay by Tad Williams 0

Shadowplay by Tad Williams

Volume 2 in the four volume Shadowmarch series. As readers, we are lucky that Tad Williams backs the Golden State Warriors; for if he needed to spend more time backing a winning basketball team,...

Python Isle by Kenneth Robeson (Will Murray) 2

Python Isle by Kenneth Robeson (Will Murray)

This is the first of the Doc Savage novels penned by Will Murray under the Kenneth Robeson moniker. From a Doc chronological perspective, it is usually placed after Death in Silver (which is referred...

The Squeaking Goblin (Doc Savage #35) 0

The Squeaking Goblin (Doc Savage #35)

This is the 18th story in Street and Smith’s original publishing order. Doc goes to Maine, at the request of Chelton Raymond. He finds not only an assassin whose bullets vanish and who moves...

The King Maker (Doc Savage #80) 0

The King Maker (Doc Savage #80)

This is the 16th story in Street and Smith’s original publishing order and the first one not written entirely by Lester Dent (Harold A. Davis is co-author). This finishes a sprint of sorts, reading...

2011 – The year of the Indie Bookstores 0

2011 – The year of the Indie Bookstores

Many of my friends will derive from the title of this post that I am still under the influence of New Year’s libations. With the demise of Border’s and the rise of eBooks, it...

The Mystery on the Snow (Doc Savage #69) 0

The Mystery on the Snow (Doc Savage #69)

This is the 15th story in Street and Smith’s original publishing order. A sleazy mystic named Mahal is checking up on Doc, but doesn’t know that Doc has found him out and is having...

The Monsters (Doc Savage #7) 1

The Monsters (Doc Savage #7)

This is the 14th story in Street and Smith’s original publishing order. When you have 180+ stories, there are going to be some lemons, and this was certainly one.  The story starts out promising,...

Meteor Menace (Doc Savage #3) 0

Meteor Menace (Doc Savage #3)

This is the 13th story in Street and Smith’s original publishing order. As I’ve stated many times, re-reading the books in the originally published order links them together. This story starts in Chile, where...