Tag Archives: Fritz Leiber

Tour: The Maltese Eagle Caper

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Don

When I say that the usual Sunday Hammett Tour takes four hours, trust me, I’m not kidding. Four solid hours with one brief break in the middle, and if people ask a lot of questions, make that four hours and … Continue reading →

Posted in Frisco, News, Tour | Tagged 891 Post, Dwight Frye, Fritz Leiber, Golden Eagle, Ha-Ra Bar, James Flood Building, Jerry Hill, Jo Hammett, John's Grill, Maltese Eagle, Ron Shore, Wyatt Earp |

Two-Gun Bob: PulpFest 2012

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Don

Among other things PulpFest is going to commemorate this year will be the eightieth anniversary of the coming of Robert E. Howard’s Conan — exploding into the culture in the December 1932 issue of Weird Tales. In many ways, and given that Howard … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News, REH | Tagged Argosy, Brian Leno, Conan, Fritz Leiber, Harry Otto Fischer, John D. Squires, Karl Edward Wagner, Kid Dula, PulpFest, Pulps, Rusty Burke, Steve Eng, Sword-and-Sorcery, Weird Tales |

Tour: Some Kindle Some More

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Don

Got another note from Vince Emery, letting me know that the dustup between Amazon and IPG — Independent Publisher Group — has been resolved and you can once again purchase the Hammett Tour book on your Kindle, if you’ve got a … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, News, Tour, Willeford | Tagged Book Collecting, Frederic Dannay, Fritz Leiber, Hammett Tour Book, Kindle, Lillian Hellman, Philip K. Dick, Vince Emery |

Sinister Cinema: John Carter of Mars

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Don

Keeping my Memorial March theme going, I caught John Carter yesterday so I could review it today — for the sixty-second anniversary of the death of Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1950. Brilliant adaptation of the source material, fast-paced, funny (I’m amazed … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Lit | Tagged Bill Crider, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fritz Leiber, Gods of Mars, Indiana Jones, John Carter, Pauline Kael, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, The Wanderer |

Rediscovered: PKD, 30 Years After

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Don

For the thirtieth anniversary of the passing of Philip K. Dick, today, my occasional Guest Blogger Brian Leno has put up a post about how he’s finally getting around to reading that titan of science fiction — and, yes, better … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged Avram Davidson, Brian Leno, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, Lovecraft, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Peter S. Beagle, Philip K. Dick, Richard A. Lupoff, Robert Silverberg, Selected Letters of PKD, Terry Carr |

Sinister Cinema: John Stanley on Cheese Theatre

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Don

— and you can read the rest of the description of the most recent book from the long time host of Creature Features on John Stanley’s website, check out what else he’s been up to lately. Among other things I’ve done in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Frisco, News | Tagged Bill Arney, Cheese Theatre, Creature Features, Fritz Leiber, John Law, John Stanley |

Frisco Beat: The Return of Donald Sidney-Fryer

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Don

This coming Saturday, September 17, starting at 3p.m., you’ll find Donald Sidney-Fryer back in town for a signing in Borderlands. He did his stint as a San Francisco writer, starting sometime in the 1960s, tossing himself full tilt into the Hippie Scene … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Frisco, Lit, News | Tagged Ambrose Bierce, August Derleth, Book Collecting, Clark Ashton Smith, Donald Sidney-Fryer, Donald Wandrei, E. Hoffmann Price, Fritz Leiber, George Sterling, Guillermo del Toro, H. Warner Munn, Leo Grin, Lovecraft, Musso & Frank |

Sinister Cinema: A Couple of Popes

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Don

Breaking the pattern of recent years, this season I didn’t offer the usual Palm Sunday Tour in honor of Charles Willeford’s death, which fell on a Palm Sunday, March 27, 1988 — Willeford, who would be crowned posthumously by the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Tour, Willeford | Tagged Burt Young, Change War, Daryl Hannah, Eric Roberts, Fritz Leiber, Gary Oldman, Mickey Rourke, Palm Sunday Tour, Palookaville, Sid and Nancy, The Pope of Greenwich Village |

Rediscovered: The Kindle in 1959

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Don

For no special reason I got the urge to reread Fritz Leiber’s Change War series, off and on, over the last few weeks, still have at least one or two more to go (since they never all quite saw a … Continue reading →

Posted in Frisco, Lit | Tagged "The Mind Spider", 811 Geary, Change War, Fantastic, Fritz Leiber, Kindle, Our Lady of Darkness |

Frisco Beat: 100, and Counting

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Don

During the throes of repainting the old website in the closing months of 2010, knocking together the current blog format, I had to sit on the sidelines and watch news and anniversaries pass by. The one I most regret not being on … Continue reading →