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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Bullard of the Space Patrol
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 22:26:30 -0700
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In article <87msle9zvx.fsf@comcast.net.invalid>,
 Don_from_AZ <djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid> 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_.
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Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com