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Talbot Mundy’s “For the Salt He Had Eaten”

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Talbot Mundy was born on this date, April 23, in 1879. He passed away in 1940.  Mundy was one of the premier writers of adventure fiction of the early 20th Century.  While not as well-remembered today as Haggard or Kipling, Mundy was prolific and left a substantial body of work that is held in high regard by connoisseurs of adventure tales set in far-off, exotic lands. I’ve read a few of his short stories and liked them,  but this is the first longer work of Mundy’s I’ve read. I quite enjoyed.

“For the Salt He Had Eaten” first appeared in the March 1913 issue of Adventure.   I read it in The Talbot Mundy Megapack, which you can grab for just ninety-nine cents. Continue reading →

If You Were Stranded on a Desert Island…

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If you were stranded on a desert island and could have one complete run of a pulp magazine to help you while away the hours, which one would it be?  For those of you who are anal retentive, assume that food, water, and shelter are not an issue.

Oh, and you’re alone.  I don’t want to know what type of harem you would have on a desert island.  That’s a different blog post on a different blog written by a different blogger.  The thought of what some of you people might come up with on that one frankly scares me.

For the purposes of this thought experiment, any pulp that survived after the early 1950s (I’m thinking Astounding here) when the pulp market collapsed can only be included up through 1953.  Any magazine that started in the 1950s (F&SF, Galaxy, etc.) is outside the bounds of consideration.  Here are my top ten choices: Continue reading →