Richard Blade series
Dates: 12/4/99,2:50 PM through 12/6/99,9:40 AM (4 postings)
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FROM: "Patricia Gibson" <[removed]@tnrdlib.bc.ca>
REC'D: 12/4/99, 2:50 PM
FROM: "Jim Norman" <[removed]@lib.ci.phoenix.az.us>
REC'D: 12/4/99, 4:06 PM
Thanks,
Jim
Jim Norman, Library Assistant
Special Needs Center
Burton Barr Central Library
Phoenix Public Library
1221 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona 85004-1867
(602) 291-8690
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Patricia Gibson wrote:
> Hi All!
> I have a patron looking for a Sci-Fi series whose main character is Richard
> Blade. Patron cannot remember the author but he says there are many books
> in the series. He believes Richard Blade is a special agent and the books
> deal with inter-dimensional travel. Does this ring any chimes with you?
> Thanks for your help on my inspirational fiction query.
> Patricia.
> Kamloops Public
> British Columbia
>
FROM: "Diana Tixier Herald" <[removed]@wic.net>
REC'D: 12/4/99, 8:23 PM
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Happy reading,
Di Herald
[removed]@wic.net see the Genreflecting page at <A HREF="http://www.mancon.com/genre/">http://www.mancon.com/genre/</A>
Rosenberg's First Law of Reading "Never apologize for your reading tastes."
> On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Patricia Gibson wrote:
>
> > Hi All!
> > I have a patron looking for a Sci-Fi series whose main character is Richard
> > Blade. Patron cannot remember the author but he says there are many books
> > in the series. He believes Richard Blade is a special agent and the books
> > deal with inter-dimensional travel. Does this ring any chimes with you?
> > Thanks for your help on my inspirational fiction query.
> > Patricia.
> > Kamloops Public
> > British Columbia
> >
FROM: "Dennis K. Lien" <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 12/6/99, 9:40 AM
A bit more: all are paperback originals. The first six were published by
MacFadden Books; the rest by Pinnacle (same company, I believe). The
"Jeffrey Lord" pseudonym conceals Manning Lee Stokes (books 1-8); Ray
F. Nelson (book 30, DIMENSION OF HORROR); and Roland Green (all the rest).
The series ran from #1, THE BRONZE AXE, in 1969 to #37, WARRIORS OF
LATAN, in 1984.
Stokes was primarily a mystery writer and such comments as I've seen on
his BLADE books is that they are very routine. Green is a more-or-less
fulltime SF and fantasy writer (mostly either military SF or sword and
sorcery fantasy) and his books, especially the later ones, are supposed
to be much better. Nelson is also a professional SF author, but an
eclectic one whose other works bear little resemblance to this one.
(He's perhaps best known as the author of the original short story
that became the movie THEY LIVE--the one about the special glasses that
enables someone--Roddy Piper in the movie--to recognize the huge
numbers around of aliens masquerading as human.)
I've not actually read any of these, though I've skimmed some of them.
Many books; little time... The books are fairly common in paperback
traders and in sf speciality stores, and do not generally command any
sort of premium prices (although the first printings of the first few
titles are uncommon--they were later reprinted with a uniform cover
design package in line with the later volumes of the series).
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
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