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 This afternoon I stopped into Curious Books in East Lansing and picked up a UK paperback of The Cat Who Walks through Walls plus the first of three installments of Podkayne of Mars in the November 1962 Worlds of If, illustrated by Virgil Finlay. I have posted the cover art of both novel and magazine, plus the two interiors by Finlay, to their appropriate places in my Heinlein galleries.
Enjoy, Rafeeq
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 A little while ago I was invited to contribute to a text by Salem Press called Critical Survey of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
My own part was comparatively minor—simply to write an introduction of 6000 words, or the equivalent of a 20-page term paper, plus an annotated bibliography of web resources for students and educators—but I confess I felt like I really did have to work for my money on this one. It was fun, though, and it was exciting to have the opportunity to publish on a big name like Shakespeare. I sent everything to my editor this morning, over a week under the deadline—because that’s the kind of sweetheart I am—and now I can hang loose until the book comes out in May. Rafeeq  Ah, at last my Jim Burns print has come back from the framing shop! It was already beautiful, but when matted and framed, and hung on a dark red wall, I think it looks doubly handsome. This baby is signed and numbered, and I absolutely love it. To see shots of the hand-numbering and signature, click on my “Other SF Art” page.
Rafeeq  Today I posted another half-dozen pics in my Big Illustrated Books section, “Flights of Fancy” folder. Aside from redoing my front scan of Harry Harrison’s Mechanismo, with its beautiful Jim Burns cover—for the book is oblong, and hence impossible to capture in a single scan—I also added some nifty interiors as well. All, I think, are colorful and varied and fun.
Enjoy, Rafeeq  Ah, at last, at last has arrived my signed and numbered print of Sol Transit Complex 7 (Janus), the classic Jim Burns masterpiece at left!
Are you a lover of such beautiful SF art? If so, remember that on my “Links” page I have a link to the site where you can purchase such things directly from the artist himself—who is quite a nice gent, by the way. Do there exist reasons not to buy such art? Why, of course. If, for example, one is starving and scrounging food from garbage-heaps— If one needs money for bail so that one can be free to hunt down the perpetrator of the heinous crime of which one is wrongfully accused— No, in such cases, one certainly should not take the plunge. Otherwise, though... Well, it’s awfully hard to resist. In any event, once I get the complete package back from the framing shop in a week or two, I will try to take a pic of the actual thing on my wall and post it. Finally, please note that I have added some more interior illustrations in the “Big Illustrated Books” section of my SF art galleries. Enjoy, Rafeeq |
AuthorAuthor of several dozen pieces of literary criticism, reference entries, and reviews; novel Student Body; memoir Tiger Hunts, Thunder Bay, and Treasure Chests; how-to The Bibliophile's Personal Library; humorous Have You Ever Been to an Irishman's Shanty?; some poetry; and quite a bit of advising/Banner training materials. Archives
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