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Kenneth Bulmer (1921–2005)

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(eng) Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) was the actual name of this author. His pseudonymns included Alan Burt Akers, Frank Brandon, Rupert Clinton, Ernest Corley, Dael Forest, Peter Green, Adam Hardy, Philip Kent, Bruno Krauss, Karl Maras, Manning Norvil, Chesman Scot, Nelson Sherwood, Richard Silver, H. Philip Stratford, and Tully Zetford. Kenneth Johns was a collective pseudonym used for a collaboration with author John Newman. Some of Bulmer's works were published along with the works of other authors under "house names" (collective pseudonyms) Ken Blake (for a series of tie-ins with the 1970s television programme The Professionals), Arthur Frazier, Neil Langholm, Charles R. Pike, and Andrew Quiller.

(ger) Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) war der bürgerliche Name dieses Autors. Zu seinen Pseudonymen gehörten Alan Burt Akers, Frank Brandon, Rupert Clinton, Ernest Corley, Dael Forest, Peter Green, Adam Hardy, Philip Kent, Bruno Krauss, Karl Maras, Manning Norvil, Chesman Scot, Nelson Sherwood, Richard Silver, H. Philip Stratford, und Tully Zetford. Kenneth Johns war ein Sammelpseudonym, das benutzt wurde für die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Autor John Newman. Einige von Bulmers Werken wurden mit denen anderer Autoren unter den "house names" (kollektive Pseudonyme) Ken Blake (für eine Buchreihe zur Fernsehserie "The Professionals"), Arthur Frazier, Neil Langholm, Charles R. Pike und Andrew Quiller veröffentlicht.

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Tekijän teokset

Transit to Scorpio (1972) 201 kappaletta
The Suns of Scorpio (1973) 162 kappaletta
Warrior of Scorpio (1973) 154 kappaletta
Swordships of Scorpio (1973) 141 kappaletta
Prince of Scorpio (1974) 122 kappaletta
To Outrun Doomsday (1967) 115 kappaletta
Fliers of Antares (1975) 104 kappaletta
Bladesman of Antares (1975) 104 kappaletta
Krozair of Kregen (1977) 99 kappaletta
Armada of Antares (1976) 98 kappaletta
Renegade of Kregen (1976) 98 kappaletta
The Tides of Kregen (1976) 96 kappaletta
Avenger of Antares (1975) 93 kappaletta
Arena of Antares (1974) 90 kappaletta
The Million Year Hunt / Ships to the Stars (1964) — Tekijä — 86 kappaletta
Secret Scorpio (1977) 84 kappaletta
On the Symb-Socket Circuit (1967) 81 kappaletta
Manhounds of Antares (1974) 81 kappaletta
Golden Scorpio (1978) 78 kappaletta
A Sword for Kregen (1979) 78 kappaletta
The Fall of the Dream Machine / The Star Venturers (1969) — Tekijä — 77 kappaletta
Captive Scorpio (1978) 75 kappaletta
The Wizard of Starship Poseidon / Let The Spacemen Beware (1963) — Avustaja — 74 kappaletta
A Fortune for Kregen (1979) 74 kappaletta
A Victory for Kregen (1980) 74 kappaletta
Cradle of the Sun / The Wizards of Senchuria (1969) — Tekijä — 73 kappaletta
A Life for Kregen (1979) 71 kappaletta
Savage Scorpio (1978) 69 kappaletta
New Writings in SF-24 (1974) — Toimittaja — 68 kappaletta
Mayday Orbit / No Man's World (1961) — Tekijä — 67 kappaletta
Behold the Stars (1965) — Tekijä — 65 kappaletta
Delia of Vallia (1982) 64 kappaletta
Rebel of Antares (1980) 63 kappaletta
Storm Over Vallia (1985) 61 kappaletta
Mazes of Scorpio (1979) 60 kappaletta
Beasts of Antares (1980) 60 kappaletta
Whirlpool of Stars (1974) 57 kappaletta
Behold the Stars / Planetary Agent X (1965) — Tekijä — 57 kappaletta
Fires of Scorpio (1983) 56 kappaletta
Masks of Scorpio (1984) 55 kappaletta
Seg the Bowman (1984) 55 kappaletta
Allies of Antares (1981) 55 kappaletta
New Writings in SF-25 (1975) — Toimittaja — 55 kappaletta
The Boosted Man (1974) 54 kappaletta
City Under the Sea (1961) 53 kappaletta
The Diamond Contessa (1983) 53 kappaletta
Legions of Antares (1981) 53 kappaletta
New Writings in SF-22 (1975) — Toimittaja — 52 kappaletta
New Writings in SF-26 (1975) — Toimittaja — 52 kappaletta
Fugitive of the Stars / Land Beyond the Map (Ace M-111) (1965) — Tekijä — 50 kappaletta
Star City (1974) 50 kappaletta
Werewolves of Kregen (1985) 50 kappaletta
Talons of Scorpio (1983) 49 kappaletta
Whetted Bronze (1978) 49 kappaletta
Witches of Kregen (1985) 48 kappaletta
New Writings in SF-23 (1973) — Toimittaja — 48 kappaletta
Worlds for the Taking (1966) 46 kappaletta
Demons' World / I Want the Stars (1964) — Tekijä — 45 kappaletta
The Ships of Durostorum / Alton's Unguessable (1970) — Tekijä — 44 kappaletta
Warlord of Antares (1988) 44 kappaletta
The Omens of Kregen (1985) 43 kappaletta
The Games of Neith / The Earth Gods are Coming (1960) — Avustaja — 43 kappaletta
Cycle of Nemesis (1967) 41 kappaletta
Virility Gene (1975) 39 kappaletta
The Hunters of Jundagai / Project Jove (1971) — Tekijä — 39 kappaletta
New Writings in SF-27 (1977) — Toimittaja — 38 kappaletta
The Chariots of Ra / Earthstrings (Ace SF Double, 10293) (1972) — Tekijä — 38 kappaletta
City Under the Sea / Star Ways (Ace Double D-255) (1957) — Tekijä — 36 kappaletta
Roller Coaster World (1972) 36 kappaletta
Kandar (1969) 35 kappaletta
Swords of the Barbarians (1970) 32 kappaletta
New Writings in SF-29 (1976) — Toimittaja — 31 kappaletta
The Doomsday Men (1968) 30 kappaletta
Crown of the Sword God (1980) 29 kappaletta
New Writings in SF-28 (1976) — Toimittaja — 29 kappaletta
Dream Chariots (1977) 28 kappaletta
New Writings in SF-30 (1977) — Toimittaja — 23 kappaletta
The Insane City (1971) 20 kappaletta
Stained-glass World (1969) 18 kappaletta
Demon's World (1964) 17 kappaletta
Blazon (1970) 16 kappaletta
You'll be All Right (1982) 16 kappaletta
The electric sword-swallowers (1974) 15 kappaletta
Meuchelmörder von Scorpio (1991) 12 kappaletta
Wiedergeborenes Scorpio (1994) 12 kappaletta
Blood Sacrifice (1975) 12 kappaletta
The Key to Irunium (1967) 12 kappaletta
The Changeling Worlds (1961) 12 kappaletta
Beyond the Silver Sky (2011) 11 kappaletta
Die Scorpio Bänder (1996) 11 kappaletta
Die Banditen von Antares (1994) 10 kappaletta
The Wizards of Senchuria (1969) 10 kappaletta
Land beyond the map (2011) 9 kappaletta
The Chariots of Ra (1972) 9 kappaletta
Der Triumph von Scorpio (1994) 9 kappaletta
The Wizard of Starship Poseidon (1963) 9 kappaletta
Scorpio in Flammen (1994) 9 kappaletta
Aufruhr auf Kregen (1997) 9 kappaletta
Die Trommeln von Scorpio (1994) 9 kappaletta
Of Earth Foretold (2013) 8 kappaletta
The ships of Durostorum (1970) — Tekijä — 8 kappaletta
Schatten über Kregen (1996) 8 kappaletta
The secret of Zi (1958) 7 kappaletta
The earth gods are coming (1960) 7 kappaletta
The Key to Venudine (1968) 7 kappaletta
Ryder Hook - Der Nova-Mann (1987) 7 kappaletta
Defiance (1963) 6 kappaletta
Haesel the Slave (1975) 6 kappaletta
Le gabbie dell'infinito (1965) 6 kappaletta
The Million Year Hunt (1964) 5 kappaletta
Corissa Vestal Virgin (1976) 5 kappaletta
No Man's World (1961) 4 kappaletta
Earth's Long Shadow 4 kappaletta
The hunters of Jundagai (1971) 4 kappaletta
Sun in the Night (1975) 4 kappaletta
Shark North (1978) 3 kappaletta
Steel Shark (1978) 3 kappaletta
Encounter in Space (1952) 3 kappaletta
Shark Raid (Sea Wolf 6) (1982) 3 kappaletta
The Vikings: Trail of Blood (1976) 3 kappaletta
Shark Hunt (1980) 3 kappaletta
Verrat auf Kregen (1998) 3 kappaletta
Brotan the Breeder (1979) 3 kappaletta
Shark Pack (1978) 3 kappaletta
New Writings in SF - Special 2 (1978) — Toimittaja — 3 kappaletta
The Wind of Liberty (1961) 3 kappaletta
The Fatal Fire (1969) 2 kappaletta
Wizard of Scorpio (1976) 2 kappaletta
The star venturers 2 kappaletta
EMPIRE OF CHAOS (1953) 1 kappale
Green Shadows 1 kappale
Shark Africa (1981) 1 kappale
Ice and Fire 1 kappale
Vargflockarna (1980) 1 kappale
World Aflame 1 kappale
New Writings in SF - Special 3 (1978) — Toimittaja; Esipuhe — 1 kappale
SEA WOLF 3-SHARK PLA (1981) 1 kappale
1981 1 kappale
Teräsnyrkki (2012) 1 kappale
The patient dark (1969) 1 kappale
Verbotene Welten (1960) 1 kappale
The fowling 1 kappale

Associated Works

The DAW science fiction reader (1976) — Avustaja — 89 kappaletta
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 16th Series (1967) — Avustaja — 68 kappaletta
New Writings in SF-19 (1971) — Avustaja — 57 kappaletta
The Best of British SF 2 (1977) — Avustaja — 57 kappaletta
Car Sinister (1979) — Avustaja — 47 kappaletta
No Stone (1948) — Tekijä — 20 kappaletta
Drabble Project (1988) — Avustaja — 17 kappaletta
The Giant Book of Fantasy Tales (1996) — Avustaja — 11 kappaletta
Ashtaru der Schreckliche. (1982) — Avustaja, eräät painokset9 kappaletta
Fantasy Tales Volume 10, No. 2 (1989) — Avustaja — 6 kappaletta
Marriage and the Family Through Science Fiction (1988) — Avustaja — 6 kappaletta
SF Impulse 10 (1966) — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta

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Yleistieto

Kanoninen nimi
Bulmer, Kenneth
Virallinen nimi
Bulmer, Henry Kenneth
Muut nimet
Akers, Alan Burt
Brandon, Frank
Clinton, Rupert
Corley, Ernest
Forest, Dael
Green, Peter (näytä kaikki 17)
Hardy, Adam
Kent, Philip
Krauss, Bruno
Maras, Karl
Norvil, Manning
Scot, Chesman
Sherwood, Nelson
Silver, Richard
Stratford, H. Philip
Zetford, Tully
Prescot, Dray
Syntymäaika
1921-01-14
Kuolinaika
2005-12-16
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
England
UK
Syntymäpaikka
London, England, UK
Kuolinpaikka
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK
Asuinpaikat
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK
Ammatit
science fiction writer
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1968)
Erotteluhuomautus
Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) was the actual name of this author. His pseudonymns included Alan Burt Akers, Frank Brandon, Rupert Clinton, Ernest Corley, Dael Forest, Peter Green, Adam Hardy, Philip Kent, Bruno Krauss, Karl Maras, Manning Norvil, Chesman Scot, Nelson Sherwood, Richard Silver, H. Philip Stratford, and Tully Zetford. Kenneth Johns was a collective pseudonym used for a collaboration with author John Newman. Some of Bulmer's works were published along with the works of other authors under "house names" (collective pseudonyms) Ken Blake (for a series of tie-ins with the 1970s television programme The Professionals), Arthur Frazier, Neil Langholm, Charles R. Pike, and Andrew Quiller.

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Quite enjoyed Cherry Wilder's The Ark of James Carlyle, and No Certain Armour by John Kippax. None of the rest particularly stood out.
 
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furicle | Aug 5, 2023 |
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Natt90 | Jun 23, 2022 |
review of
Kenneth Bulmer's / Mack Reynolds's Behold the Stars / Planetary Agent X
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - July 18, 2018


Here's another Ace Double that I got for the Reynolds story — only to realize once I got it home that I already had Planetary Agent X in a different edition. Duh. I wasn't that excited about reading another bk by Bulmer since I hadn't liked the only other thing I read by him very much (see my review of his The Key to Venudine here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2460708541 ). However, it was a quick read & an easy review & I liked it more so here's the thin skivvy:

"He would look forward to the reunion hopefully, as each year passed and his buddies filled out and married and became good citizens—they really had been a tear-away bunch. He would go along to enjoy himself in the old talk and the jargon and the memories. But each year brought the same jokes and the same memories that yet were subtly not the same, so that the outlines blurred and—was it Johnny Red who got that Venie gunner on their forward base or was it Jackie Franks?—no, he bought it in the drop on Suvla—surely that was when that new blond young shavetail got his when his parapack roman-candled—no, you're thinking of that guy, what was his name? was always sick when we went through the box . . ." - p 6

An ex-military guy goes to a reunion of his former unit members. These days, his job is to service space freighters that're accessed thru faster-than-light boxes that were the same boxes that enabled him & his unit to drop in uninvited on the Venies they were fighting. The bk was published in 1965 & we're in the future where it's possible to travel to very far-away places almost instantaneously.. but some things just never change:

"As soon as he decently could after the meal, when the ex-troopers were once again standing and sitting around the bar and looking forward to a night of it, Ward walked through to the phone booths." - p 8

Yes, phone booths are still w/ us, maybe tape is too, alcohol is bound to be. Anyway, there's talk of another possible-threat-to-humans-from-another-exraterrestrial-but-people-are-not-in-any-hurry-for-yet-another-war:

""Stupid talk. Those aliens may look like us and the Venies and the Centaurians and Procyns and a dozen other local stellar races; but they're more alien, if you allow a vague sentiment like that—"

""We know what you mean." Crombie sat quietly with the others now, his usual liveliness not evident. "We remember the Venies as they were—oh—ten years ago. But today they're just another friendly race in our local interstellar civilization. Sometimes you can make contact with an alien race and remain friends and sometimes there just has to be a dumb stupid war. But so far we haven't bumped into any alien aliens so hostile that they won't see sense."" - p 9

My description of the boxes as FTL isn't quite accurate:

"Zukowsky switched his train of thought: "Pal of mine working for SSA tells me they're still a million parsecs from ever pushing a ship along at FTL."

""I don't think they ever will. Einstein won't be mocked."

""We do, don't we, every day, after a fashion? We break down a person or a load of freight, shoot them along our beams from one box to the receiver box and recreate them. Just about instantaneously too."" - p 26

Close enuf for me. But what about the possibilites for things not working as you've intended? Computers & marriages are bad enuf:

"He'd shown himself to be a coward; in a way that step across the matter transmitter threshold was in a very real sense a step towards his own mental rehabilitation.

"He stepped out the far door, adjusting his body to the anticipated near free-fall conditions in the carrier and fell full length on his face, his body crushed down by a stunning and unexpected and altogether terrifying acceleration." - pp 44-45

Some violence ensues but he survives & the next thing he knows he's encountering a conspiracy of pacifists. PACI-FIST? That wd make a nice knuckle tattoo. A variation on LOVE HATE that plays off the hand position.

""So you've seen . . ?"

""I've seen tough men talking like pacifists. There's no harm in that, it's the only sensible way to think about aliens when the aliens come in friendship. But I've been worried—"

""Something—or someone—is deliberately forcing our fighting men to demand peace at any price. You have the wit to guess what that will do if the Gershmi are out for a fight? Steve was assigned a task in trying to uncover the truth. He has disappeared."" - p 62

But what I want to know is Do the Gershmi have any natural resources that we want?

"Jordan shook his head. "I can understand why you are saying this, Dave. And I can understand what you are saying. But, surely you realize that I cannot feel it at all? You know the detractors take away all combative feeling for aliens? I just can't envisage what you're suggesting, and the effort to achieve the impossible makes my head ache. . . ."" - p 107

Don't worry, there's bound to be a Happy Pill for that soonish. SF is full of stories of battle between Earthlings & Extraterrestrials, it's full of stories of Earth being quarantined b/c of human violence. Behold the Stars puts a slightly new twist on it.

As for Planetary Agent X? You can read my review of that here: https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/629641-gotta-luv-ya-mack-reynolds .

Have a nice day.
… (lisätietoja)
 
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