One Hit Wonders (SFF Authors that are noted for just one story)

[J-WO]

Blimey, Dask; you're on a roll!

 

[dask]

Thank you. CLOUD CHAMBER by Howard L. Myers

 

[con]

spiggots quest gary kilworth was annoyed as really liked it at time

 

[dask]

Didn't he write KILLERBOWL?

 

[con]

no that gary k wolf i think

 

[dask]

Sounds right. Thanks.

 

[con]

no worries.killerbowl any good?

 

[dask]

Haven't read it, just remember seeing it when it came out. Checked my card catalog a minute ago and I do have it but it's not on my shelf, which means it's buried in a box in the attic. I've wanted to read it, maybe I'll go dig it out next weekend and set it aside. Think I bought it because of Rollerball.

 

[con]

im assuming its sf not fantasy?

 

[dask]

It was on my shelf, I just didn't see it. Blind without my reading glasses. Judging from the cover it could swing either way depending on the force of one's biases. I had my next book picked out but now I may postpone it.

 

[Omphalos]

I wonder if that's Gary K. Wolfe? He wrote an author study and some academic genre books.

 

[iansales]

He also reviews books for Locus. I have his collection of reviews, Soundings. I assume it's the same bloke.

 

[dask]

SPACE LAWYER by Nat Schachner

 

[dask]

NIGHT MARE by Morton J. Golding

 

[dask]

AND HAVING WRIT... by Donald R. Bensen

 

[J-WO]

Dask, I'm beginning to suspect you are some form of literary terminator, going back in time and eliminating these authors before their second novel.

 

[rai]

are we talking about 'hits'?

I have never heard of these books.​

 

[dask]

"Hits" or "SFF Authors that are noted for just one story."

WORLD OF THE SLEEPER by Tony Russell Wayman

 

[Daisy-Boo]

The Minds Of Billy Milligan is a fascinating non-fiction study of multiple-personality; my copy happens to reside on the shelf right beside my computer.

I read that book many years ago and was very impressed. I need to go hunt down a copy now...

 

[Daisy-Boo]

are we talking about 'hits'?​

I have never heard of these books.​

I'm grateful I'm not the only one who was thinking that. I haven't heard of most of these books too. Though, in my defense, SF&F books made up only a small portion of books in stores and libraries when I was growing up (in South Africa).