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Black Cat Weekly #94

This issue features three original stories—a pair of mysteries (by Mindy Quigley and Mark Thielman, thanks to Acquiring Editors Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman), plus John Gregory Betancourt's “Sympathy for Invisible Men,” part of a series of meditations on classic monsters he has been writing for about 30 years now. Plus—if you’ve been following the lamentations of science fiction magazines about AI submissions—you will find Norman Spinrad’s essay on the subject fascinating. And of course there is plenty of great reading from old masters like Robert E. Howard and Marie Beloc Lowndes and (relatively) newer writers like Robert Abernathy, Stephen Marlowe, and Louis Carbonneau. Of course, no issue is complete without a solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles, too!

Here’s the complete lineup:

Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure:

“The Meeting,” by Mark Thielman [Michael Bracken Presents short story]

“The Case of the Patriotic Pilferage,” Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery]

“Worth the Wait,” by Mindy Quigley [Barb Goffman Presents short story]

The Terriford Mystery, by Marie Belloc Lowndes [novel]

Essay:

“Save the SF Magazines from AI, Amazon, And SFWA?” by Norman Spinrad

Science Fiction & Fantasy:

“Sympathy for Invisible Men,” by John Gregory Betancourt [short story]

“Righteous Plague,” by Robert Abernathy [novella]

“Fugue,” by Stephen Marlowe [novella]

“Skulls in the Stars,” by Robert E. Howard [Solomon Kane series, short story]

The Sentinel Stars, by Louis Charbonneau [novel]


Authors:

  • Mindy Quigley
  • Mark Thielman
  • Norman Spinrad
  • John Gregory Betancourt
  • Hal Charles
  • Robert E. Howard
  • Stephen Marlowe
  • Marie Belloc Lowndes
  • Robert Abernathy
  • Louis Charbonneau

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  • E-book

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  • 532 pages

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English

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  • Fantasy and Sci-Fi
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  • 17 books

    John Gregory Betancourt

    John Gregory Betancourt is the bestselling author of more thirty books, including several Star Trek novels and the Dawn of Amber trilogy.

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  • 19 books

    Stephen Marlowe

    Stephen Marlowe (1928–2008) was the author of more than fifty novels, including nearly two dozen featuring globe-trotting private eye Chester Drum. Born Milton Lesser, Marlowe was raised in Brooklyn and attended the College of William and Mary. After several years writing science fiction under his given name, he legally adopted his pen name, and began focusing on Chester Drum, the Washington-based detective who first appeared in The Second Longest Night (1955). Although a private detective akin to Raymond Chandler’s characters, Drum was distinguished by his jet-setting lifestyle, which carried him to various exotic locales from Mecca to South America. These espionage-tinged stories won Marlowe acclaim, and he produced more than one a year before ending the series in 1968. After spending the 1970s writing suspense novels like The Summit (1970) and The Cawthorn Journals (1975), Marlowe turned to scholarly historical fiction. He lived much of his life abroad, in Switzerland, Spain, and France, and died in Virginia in 2008.

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