Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Woodward Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Bullard of the Space Patrol Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 22:26:30 -0700 Organization: home user Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <87msle9zvx.fsf@comcast.net.invalid> X-Trace: individual.net dCqtpUaJhQySDkZplwVYTgJm2lZytW3V2MOUwrp0YraaZMH9QG X-Orig-Path: robertaw Cancel-Lock: sha1:Vvg6JCzgBYtwT37m9rLekaGmoYY= sha256:W5U2DgkBygvNTKDgBNTxrL5VVUQwHwYjuwkztng78bo= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Bytes: 3096 In article <87msle9zvx.fsf@comcast.net.invalid>, Don_from_AZ wrote: > Recent posts involving libraries and how people got started reading SF > got me thinking about my first experiences in finding books at the > library. I'm sure I encountered Asimov and Heinlein there fairly early > on, but the book that made the earliest strong impression was "Bullard > of the Space Patrol" by Malcolm Jameson. "Who?" you may well ask. Not > nearly as well known as other Golden Age authors, he apparently wrote > mostly short stories and novellas. > > A series of short stories involving the space naval career of the > eponymous Bullard[1], from Lieutenant to Admiral, was collected in > "Bullard of the Space Patrol", edited by Andre Norton. The one that > stuck with me longest was "Bullard Reflects", in which Bullard and his > crew were captured by space pirates, turned loose weaponless in > spacesuits to be hunted down for sport. Bullard turns the tables on the > bad guys in a quite surprising and clever way. > IIRC, one of the stories in that collection wasn't a Bullard story in the original magazine publication. The main character's name was changed for the collection. > Curious to see if I could find this book again, I googled Bullard and > Malcolm Jameson and found quite a few references online, in ISFDB, > Wikipedia and elsewhere. > > https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?448 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Jameson > > Not only that, but the "Bullard of the Space Patrol" book is available > in hardcover online for prices up to $60 and even $100 dollars! Even > more surprising, a Kindle ebook version from Amazon at only $2.99! > (Guess which one I bought.) I am about to discover how well the stories > have held up in the 65 years since I first encountered them. > -Don- If the e-book you bought was _Bullard: Tales of the Space Patrol_, it has a short story and a short-short that didn't appear in the early 1950s hardcover. It also has an article on space warfare published in 1939 that, IMHO, holds up very well. -- "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement." Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ------------------------------------------------------- Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com