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Essex House (publisher)
Essex House is a Los Angeles publishing imprint, a subsidiary of Milton Luros's Parliament News, Inc, which between 1968 and 1969, published 37 erotica novels. About half the 37 titles published by Essex House were Science fiction, sci-fi/fantasy; the authors published include Philip José Farmer, David Meltzer (poet), David Meltzer, Michael Perkins (poet), Michael Perkins, Jean Marie Stine, Charles Bukowski. Bibliography * Paul V. Dallas, ''Binding with Briars'', 1968 * Richard E. Geis, ''Ravished'', 1968 * Philip José Farmer, ''Image of the Beast (novel), Image of the Beast'', 1968 * Michael Perkins, ''Blue Movie'', 1968 * David Meltzer, ''The Agency'', 1968 * David Meltzer, ''The Agent'', 1968 * David Meltzer ''How Many Blocks in the Pile'', 1968 * David Meltzer, ''Orf'', 1968 * Michael Perkins, ''Down Here'', 1968 * Michael Perkins, ''Evil companions'', 1968 * Michael Perkins, ''Queen of Heat'', 1968 * Gil Porter, ''Coupled'', 1968 * Jerry Anderson, ''Trans'', 1969 * Gary Bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving Magic (supernatural), magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century, it has expanded further into various media, including film, television, graphic novels, manga, animations and video games. Fantasy is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror fiction, horror by the respective absence of scientific or macabre themes, although these genres overlap. In popular culture, the fantasy genre predominantly features settings that emulate Earth, but with a sense of otherness. In its broadest sense, however, fantasy consists of works by many writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians from ancient mythology, myths and legends to many recent and popular works. Traits Most fantasy uses magic (paranormal), magic or other supernatural elements as a ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip José Farmer
Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. Obituary. Farmer is best known for his sequences of novels, especially the ''World of Tiers'' (1965–93) and ''Riverworld'' (1971–83) series. He is noted for the pioneering use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for, and reworking of, the lore of celebrated pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional characters. Farmer often mixed real and classic fictional characters and worlds and real and fake authors as epitomized by his Wold Newton family group of books. These tie all classic fictional characters together as real people and blood relatives resulting from an alien conspiracy. Such works as ''The Other Log of Phileas Fogg'' (1973) and '' Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life'' (1973) are early examples of literary mashup novel. Literary critic Leslie Fiedler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Meltzer (poet)
David Meltzer (February 17, 1937 – December 31, 2016) was an Americans, American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Lawrence Ferlinghetti described him as "one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San Francisco poets and musicians". Meltzer came to prominence with inclusion of his work in the anthology, ''The New American Poetry 1945–1960''. Biography Early life Meltzer was born in Rochester, New York, the son of a cello, cellist and a harpist. In 1940, the family moved to Brooklyn. At the age of 11, he wrote his first poem, on the topic of the New York City subway system. He performed on radio and TV in ''The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour''. The family moved once again to Rockville Centre. His parents separated, and he accompanied his father to Los Angeles in 1954. In 1957, he moved to San Francisco, California, and became part of a circle of writers based around Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan (poet), Robert Duncan. In 1958, he recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Perkins (poet)
Michael Perkins (born November 3, 1942) is an American poet. Life and work Michael Perkins grew up in Portsmouth and Dayton, Ohio. His family was from Eastern Kentucky, of Welsh and Cherokee lineage. He graduated from Ohio University, Athens, 1963 after studies at The New School. At 16 he sent poems to ''Evergreen Review'', and received encouragement from editor Irving Rosenthal, author of ''Sheeper'' and editor of ''Big Table'' magazine. Perkins lived in the East Village, Manhattan from 1963 to 1969, working as a bookstore owner, caseworker, and remedial reading teacher. He became editor of Tompkins Square Press, wrote for ''The Village Voice'', and published in little magazines. He associated with Samuel R. Delany, Andrei Codrescu, Thomas M. Disch, John Wieners, Rene Ricard, Ira Cohen, Ray and Bonnie Bremser. His wife, the painter Renie Perkins, committed suicide in 1968, leaving two children. He traveled in Europe with them in 1969–70. He began writing erotic novels fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Marie Stine
Jean Marie Stine (born Henry Eugene Stine, 1945 in Sikeston, Missouri) is an American editor, writer, anthologist, and publisher. Career Stine worked as a book acquisitions and development editor for Newcastle Publishing and Leisure Books. For a number of years, she was a senior editor specializing in self-help titles for publisher Jeremy P. Tarcher. Stine's own non-fiction books include ''Double Your Brain Power'' (Prentice-Hall 1997), a selection of the Quality Paperback Book Club, which was translated into five languages. Stine has served as publisher for O'Hara Publications, The Donning Company, the International Foundation for Gender Education, and Renaissance E Books. Anthologies she has edited include ''The Great Women Detectives: Seven Classic Novelettes'', ''Hearts of the West'', ''Reel Futures: Classic Stories that Became Great SF Movies'' (with Forrest J Ackerman), and ''Those Doggone Dogs''. During the late 1960s Stine worked as a personal assistant to '' Star Tre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. Bukowski's work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column '' Notes of a Dirty Old Man'' in the LA underground newspaper ''Open City''. Bukowski published extensively in small literary magazines and with small presses beginning in the early 1940s and continuing on through the early 1990s. He wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books during the course of his career. Some of these works include his ''Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window'', published by his friend and fellow poet Charles Potts, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foundation (journal)
''Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction'' is a critical peer-reviewed literary journal established in 1972 that publishes articles and reviews about science fiction. It is published triannually (spring, summer, and winter) by the Science Fiction Foundation. ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' has called it "perhaps the liveliest and indeed the most critical of the big three critical journals" (the others being ''Extrapolation'' and ''Science Fiction Studies''). A long-running feature was the series of interviews and autobiographical pieces with leading writers, entitled "The Profession of Science Fiction", a selection of which was edited and published by Macmillan Publishers in 1992. Several issues have been themed, including #93 (''A Celebration of British Science Fiction'', 2005), also published as part of the Foundation Studies in Science Fiction. The hundredth edition (Summer 2007) was unusual in that it was an all-fiction issue, including stories by such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Image Of The Beast (novel)
'' Image of the Beast '' ( 1968) is a horror erotic novel by American writer Philip José Farmer. Background The story follows Herald Childe, a private detective, who is sent a snuff film of his partner being murdered by what appears to be a vampire. His investigation into the identity of the killers leads him into a world of apparent monsters who have a predilection for brutal and supernatural sex. The monsters include vampires, werewolves, snake-women, and other undefined shape-changers. The first printing or first edition of ''Image of the Beast'' was written for sf-porn publisher Essex House. It was a paperback selling at $1.95. The sequel to this novel is '' Blown''. ''Image of the Beast'' was adapted by artist Tim Boxell (under the pseudonym "Grisly") as a comic book published by Last Gasp Last Gasp or The Last Gasp may refer to * Last Gasp (publisher) * ''Last Gasp'' (''Inside No. 9''), a TV episode * '' The Last Gasp'', a 2007 album by Impaled * ''The Last Gasp'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notes Of A Dirty Old Man
''Notes of a Dirty Old Man'' (1969) is a collection of underground newspaper columns written by Charles Bukowski for the ''Open City'' newspaper that were collated and published by Essex House in 1969. His short articles were marked by his trademark crude humor, as well as his attempts to present a "truthful" or objective viewpoint of various events in his life and his own subjective responses to those events. The series is currently published by City Lights Publishing Company but can also be found in '' Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook'', which is a collection of some of Bukowski's rare and obscure works. Plot summary Bukowski uses his own life as the basis for his series of articles, and characteristically leaves nothing out. The different stories range from hooking up with the wife of a stranger who invites him over for dinner to admire his work, to Bukowski's versions of "debates" with other writers at "Open City". Bukowski goes through life and each event without car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Feast Unknown
''A Feast Unknown'' is a novel written by American author Philip José Farmer. The novel is a pastiche of pulp fiction, erotica, and horror fiction. It was originally published in 1969, and was followed by two sequels, '' Lord of the Trees'' and '' The Mad Goblin''. The book contains many elements in common with Farmer's Wold Newton family concept, but there is some dispute as to whether it actually takes place in the same setting with Farmer's other Wold Newton fiction. In addition, the novel is infamous for its graphic depictions of sex and violence, and especially the combination of the two. Plot summary The two main characters are thinly-veiled versions of two of Farmer's favorite characters, Tarzan and Doc Savage. Called "Lord Grandrith" and "Doc Caliban", respectively, the two are recognizable as the iconic characters, but still unique. The two, half-brothers with the same father (the infamous Victorian era serial killer Jack the Ripper) share a horrible affliction thanks t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Book Publishing Companies Of The United States
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