Tag Archives: Brian Leno

Rediscovered: In the Annals of Sword-and-Sorcery

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Don

Brian Leno, trapped in his Last Redoubt in Bismarck, North Dakota, nonetheless managed to pop a review to me in my Last Redoubt — the good old sanctum sanctorum — which I’ll toss out to people stuck in their Last … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Even in Bismarck

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Don

Yep, no one better positioned to appreciate the COVID-19 outbreak than science fiction fans. It’s like living the la vida loca of a Zombie Apocalypse without the severe downside of rampaging zombies. But I would have thought if anyone I … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Bitten by a Radioactive John Hancock

Posted on January 31, 2020 by Don

When laying out his origin story as a collector of signed books the other day, Kevin Cook told me not to bother using the details about hanging out with Karl Edward Wagner, watching the local college team on the tube, … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Chinese Gordon’s Last Stand

Posted on January 26, 2020 by Don

Yesterday’s Autograph Hound Saturday was pretty cool — so what’s up for Autograph Hound Super-Sunday? Brian Leno has been keeping his eye on the calendar, too — 135 years slips past so quickly! Adventure, John Hancocks, Last Stands. . . … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: The Self-Driving Car in 1963

Posted on January 18, 2020 by Don

I pretty much knew doing the little article on David (Kavin’s World) Mason for the new Bill Breiding zine would rekindle my interest in researching that largely forgotten San Francisco writer. Stumbling across my file of info from the early … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Max Z

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Don

While I don’t proselytize for it every day, I am a big fan of the Max Brooks novel World War Z — not so much for the movie they named after it. Brian Leno nabbed me a couple of Brooks … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Zombiemeister

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Don

Autograph Hound Super-Sunday once again, and do we have anything super to offer? I think so. Yesterday we pinned the label of neat-nik on Kevin Cook, preferring as he does nice clean signatures you can actually read. I think Autograph … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Lighting Up with Lester Dent

Posted on January 1, 2020 by Don

You know Brian Leno. The guy’s got a competitive edge. He’s already duked it out mano a mano with Kevin Cook a few times with samples from their autograph collections, notably the Cornell Woolrich face-off back in August. When Kevin … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Top Ten, Baby

Posted on December 29, 2019 by Don

Brian Leno keeps his thumb on the pulse, and just popped in the news that Robert E. Howard’s landmark Cthulhu Mythos yarn “The Black Stone” made the cut for Library of America’s ten most read stories of the year — … Continue reading →

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Death Lit: Reliquaries of the Weird

Posted on November 22, 2019 by Don

The other day Brian Leno mentioned that he’d heard good things about the novel Relic by Preston & Child — but even more specifically, he got the major tip-off from me. Brian notes, “You told me about this book over … Continue reading →

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