On Monday, before all the trouble with my eye, we were out running errands and stopped by Half Price Books. For the first time ever, I found a pulp there: the March 1947 issue of MAMMOTH ADVENTURE. Now, I'm not that big a fan of the Ziff-Davis pulps, and I'd never heard of most of the authors in this issue, but you know I wasn't just about to leave it there. There are only four stories, two novellas and two novelettes: "Valley of the Big Smoke", a Northern by Frances M. Deegan; "No Holds Barred", a wrestling yarn by Alexander Blade (a Z-D house name; I don't know who really wrote this one); "Cavern's End" by C.A. Baldwin, a sea-going adventure despite the title; and "Panama Adder", a Central American jungle tale by H.B. Hickey. I haven't read any of them yet, but I'll bet at least some of them are pretty entertaining.
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I miss Half Price Books. We were in Austin for over two months after Katrina and I got used to mining those stores at least once a week. None of them around here in Louisiana.
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