@LieutenantRusty@heroesahead@ArchivistPulp Posting this reply to Simon Hogwood: C.L. Moore wrote the "Northwest Smith" stories, not Brackett. Brackett's hero was "Eric John Stark."
@heroesahead Watch the scene in RIO BRAVO between Duke and Ward Bond talking about Ricky Nelson's character. Bond could delivered is book-end words vs. swallowing them when Duke delivers his lines.
@heroesahead Producer/Director Howard Hawks worked with his screenwriters and actors to inform the audience the important dialogue and bookend it with words that could spoken-over.
@heroesahead I'm arguably the world's biggest Leigh Brackett fan, but in no way should she be credited with inventing "Rapid Fire Dialogue." What she *was* involved with was overlapping dialogue as seen in RIO BRAVO.
@HaikuFictionDJU@SCWKorsgaard@BrainLeakage03 I think it's more of a "push." If an enterprising publisher were to reissue the 5 novels as trade paperbacks, they'd charge $19.95 each, no? When you add-up the contents of the Haffner COMPLETE JOHN THE BALLADEER two-volume hc set @ $122.50 shipped, it looks even-Steven to me.🦉
@PopulusRe@Technovelgy Heh, I have a US 1st Edition of LAST AND FIRST MEN that belonged to Edmond Hamilton. Hamilton loaned it to Jack Williamson to read circa 1934.
@Diamandahagan Heckuva nice guy, too. Jack Williamson was the Grand Old Man of SF and he played the role graciously. An annual Lectureship (est. 1977) is held in his honor every spring at Eastern New Mexico University in his hometown of Portales, NM.
@schweizercomics @BenABender They're not in hand yet. The bindery is finishing things up and then it's a few days to ship and receive them. Then, it will be WEEKS in packing out 600+ preorders. #myachingback