I was just getting ready to introduce
myself to the group.
I'm Jerry Page; I've been writing and
editing under the name Gerald Page since the 1960s, mostly
science fiction and fantasy, but I did appear in Mike
Shayne's Mystery Magazine toward its end. In the 70s I was
the editor for DAW Books of the annual The Year's Best Horror
Stories anthologies.
Most of my fiction is science fiction
or fantasy. There's an emphasis on space adventure in
Planetary Stories, and cosmic horror at Abberant
Dreams.
I'm a little surprised to discover
that very little of my stuff online is hardboiled. In
Planetary Stories 6 there's a humorous story that owes a lot
to Chandler and company, "Blood on the Armadillo's Snout." In
Pulp Spirit, under the name Fran Douglas there's a series of
pulp-style detective stories called "The Diamondville Dolls,"
but it probably owes more to Norbert Davis and Robert Leslie
Bellem than Chandler and Hammett. Think "screwboiled," not
"hardboiled."
Both Planetary Stories and Pulp
Spirit can be found at www.planetarystories.com. (Pulp Spirit
was a feature of Planetary Stories for several issues and
became a separate webzine at the same site with
PlanetaryStories # 10. Planetary Stories # 11 and Pulp Spirit
2 go online July 1.
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: Juri Nummelin
To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 11:37 AM
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Gerald Page
Welcome, Jerry! Good to have you here, your posts
on the topic have been
interesting on the PulpMags list.
You have lots of stories on-line, for example on
Planetary Stories. Would
you describe any of them hardboiled?
Juri
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