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
Meeting at Infinity / Beyond the Silver Sky (Vintage Ace Double, D-507) (1961) — Tekijä — 44 kappaletta
The Balintol Cycle II [The fourteenth Dray Prescot omnibus] (The Saga of Dray Prescot Omnibus) (2015) 5 kappaletta
The Balintol Cycle I: The thirteenth Dray Prescot omnibus (The Saga of Dray Prescot omnibus Book 13) (2015) 5 kappaletta
The Spectre Cycle: The fifteenth Dray Prescot omnibus (The Saga of Dray Prescot omnibus Book 15) (2015) 4 kappaletta
Earth's Long Shadow 4 kappaletta
Stazione spaziale 539 [Challenge] 3 kappaletta
Ryder Hook - Der Nova Mann - Zyklus (Der Nova-Mann - Die Hypno-Falle - Star City - Das Männlichkeits-Gen -… (1987) 2 kappaletta
The star venturers 2 kappaletta
O MUNDO EM CHAMAS (WORLD AFLAME) 1 kappale
Green Shadows 1 kappale
Lallia The Slave Girl 1 kappale
The Stars are Ours 1 kappale
Legion of Antares 1 kappale
Ice and Fire 1 kappale
World Aflame 1 kappale
Cybernetic Controller 1 kappale
Sunset [short fiction] 1 kappale
New Writings in SF 29. 1 kappale
There's no business [short fiction] 1 kappale
The great armadas [short fiction] 1 kappale
1981 1 kappale
La arenas del infierno 1 kappale
The stars are ours 1 kappale
New writings in SF: 22 1 kappale
The Chariots Of Ra/Earthstrings 1 kappale
The ties of iron [short fiction] 1 kappale
Wisdom of the gods [part 4 of 4] 1 kappale
Wisdom of the gods [part 3 of 4] 1 kappale
Survey corpse [short fiction] 1 kappale
The fowling 1 kappale
Associated Works
The Mammoth Book of Men O'War: Stories from the Glory Days of Sail (1999) — Avustaja — 88 kappaletta
The Mammoth Book of Hearts of Oak: Classic and New Stories from the Age of Fighting Sail (2001) — Avustaja — 31 kappaletta
Merkitty avainsanalla
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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New Writings in SF 24 Tekijä: Kenneth Bulmer
Quite enjoyed Cherry Wilder's The Ark of James Carlyle, and No Certain Armour by John Kippax. None of the rest particularly stood out.
El representante de Asia Sudoriental en la Confederación de Naciones es asesinado vandálicamente por un robot, y Alberto Duchein, miembro de la Coordinación Mundial, es comisionado para resolver el caso. Pero Duchein no sabe que aquel inexplicable asesinaro va a llevarle a descubrimiento de la que es en verdad la Sociedad de los Hombres, sociedad secreta que lucha contra el creciente poder de las máquinas, y a una nueva concepción de su mundo, mucho menos perfecto de lo que pudiera parecer.
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)
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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