tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post6073823505700492781..comments2024-03-26T22:05:12.894+00:00Comments on Bear Alley: Eric Frank Russell cover galleryStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-30006081465855376242010-07-24T20:56:26.933+01:002010-07-24T20:56:26.933+01:00Thanks Chris,
For anyone looking for a copy of In...Thanks Chris,<br /><br />For anyone looking for a copy of <i>Into Your Tent: The Life and Work and Family Background of Eric Frank Russell</i> by John L. Ingham it's available from Amazon <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0956457606?ie=UTF8&tag=beaall-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0956457606" rel="nofollow">here</a>Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-82232367416772620042010-07-24T19:25:28.797+01:002010-07-24T19:25:28.797+01:00There is a new biography of Russell just published...There is a new biography of Russell just published (2010) called Into Your Tent with a Foreward by Alan Dean Foster.<br /><br />Listed on Amazon.co.ukchris kinakaidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-11303459387779547922010-03-25T12:44:39.446+00:002010-03-25T12:44:39.446+00:00My favourite author and I suspect many others SF f...My favourite author and I suspect many others SF fans as well. I think he achieved his stated ambition 'to entertain so many readers so well that some may have a momentary regret when they bury me'. I loved his gentle humour and quirky story lines.<br />I have managed to have pretty much obtained a 'Complete Stories of ...' collection now including stuff from pulps, fanzines and Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10127737717777339250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-21280104002995845172008-07-20T20:48:00.000+01:002008-07-20T20:48:00.000+01:00I'd read science fiction before 'Alamagoosa'—the f...I'd read science fiction before 'Alamagoosa'—the first would probably have been one of the Dr. Palfrey/Department Z5 global catastrophe novels by John Creasey as my Dad was a big fan of Creasey and his books were always laying around. The first SF I remember actively seeking out was the Star Trek adaptations by James Blish and some of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars and Venus novels (which had Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12010426017572710283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-2163752863590673422008-07-20T19:56:00.000+01:002008-07-20T19:56:00.000+01:00That's odd. 'Alamagoosa' was my first too - conver...That's odd. 'Alamagoosa' was my first too - converting me overnight from a hardened Enid Blyton fanatic to a neophyte SF fan! Before that it never even occurred to me that there might be books in the 'Grown Up Library' that I would enjoy.<BR/><BR/> - Phil RushtonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32738097.post-60592572443653627032008-07-20T16:02:00.000+01:002008-07-20T16:02:00.000+01:00My brother had LERN YERSELF SCOUSE -- it was hilar...My brother had LERN YERSELF SCOUSE -- it was hilarious -- I even put a line from it into a recent issue of ELEPHANTMEN -- "I'm sweating like a glassblower's arse!" Translation: "I am perspiring profusely."<BR/><BR/>Rich!Richard Starkingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13453828986133764398noreply@blogger.com