Anthony Boucher
Birth date: August 21, 1911
Died: April 29, 1968
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Rocket to the Morgue by Anthony Boucher is one of the classic mysteries re-printed by Penzler Publishers under their American Mystery Classics imprint. Writing in the 1940s, Boucher was known for his versatile talents within Science Fiction, Fantasy and Mystery fiction. A prolific contributor to e...
(Original Review, 1980-09-11)I tend to think in too cynical channels, and some comments sort of swept me back to the days when I found a Pocketbook (that's the trademarked name, not the generic) called NEW TALES OF SPACE AND TIME on the racks in our local US Import bookshop, plunked down my 2 escudo...
If I try to remove my bias, this is probably more a 4.5 star read, but my unapologetic adoration of Sherlock Holmes makes it impossible; this story was just too much fun for a fan like me. In brief (ok, not really): a movie is being made of The Adventure of the Speckled Band and a Holmesian socie...
I've been reading quite a few science fiction books lately, particularly anthologies, and this one stands out as special. It's comprised of the 26 stories voted into the "Science Fiction Hall of Fame" as the best in the genre under 15,000 words by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Spanning fro...
The Unknown was a magazine published between about 1939 and 1943. This is an anthology from it published in 1963 to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of its demise. It was purportedly a magazine of fantasy, but a lot of these stories, even though technically fantasy, would be appropriately be cl...