Fox B Holden
I stayed up till 2.00 AM last night writing (mainly a review). What I like about the holidays is not having to get up at 6.00 AM.Following Homie Bear's comment I started to wonder about the pulp writer Fox B Holden. The British Science Fiction Association have a list of his works here. He doesn't seem to have written much SF, writing mainly for Planet Stories and Imagination.
Poking around the web, I found a lovely piece of Fannish history by Richard Lupoff that mentions Holden:
That was the genesis of Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure, my first book. After five more years of balancing my work for IBM with my literary career, I gave up on the computer industry. My manager in those last days was Fox B. Holden, a onetime pulp writer whose stories had graced the pages of Planet Stories and Imagination in the 1940s and '50s. I think Fox saw me as a surrogate for himself; he'd reached the same fork in the road, years earlier, that I reached in 1970. He felt that he'd taken the wrong path, and he was relieved to see my make the right choice.
On a completely unrelated note, today's poem is Villon's Ballad of the Dead Ladies.
Labels: sf
posted by harvey molloy @ 9:55 AM
2 Comments:
That's cool eh! I am reading an intersting book by Edmund Cooper called the Overman Culture. have you heard of him? From what I can tell he was a British sf writer who wrote mostly n the 70s.
Yea, I remember him from my 70s childhood in Oldham, Lancashire. I remember reading a short story collection and a book called 'Who Needs Men'?
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