Todd Mason wrote:
> From: Craig Smith [mailto:
craismith@earthlink.net]
>> The most startling thing about these magazines,
perhaps, is that in the
> work
>> that Avram Davidson published in at least some
of them was actually, to
> the
>> best of his ability to make it so, true.
TM
>
> How so and do you mean Davidson's writing in
CAVALIER, or the "Men's True
> Guts" type magazines?
> I haven't located my own copy of his Edgar-winning
nonfiction book, but as I
> understand it he wrote both for the CAVALIER-level
of pretty respectable
> skin mags and for the hairy-chest lurids, with
integrity that Algis Budrys
> reports had him and AD's other colleagues in the
racket rolling their eyes
> more in wonder than anything else. He would do
research, sometimes at
> considerable expense, rather than making things up
out of whole cloth, as
> did Budrys, Robert Silverberg, Harry Harrison and
other talented
> contributors to the likes of MAN and MEN'S
ADVENTURE. TM
That's interesting, I'd like to read more. When you say, "his
Edgar-winning nonfiction book", do you mean Davidson or
someone else? I wasn't aware of Davidson winning a nonfiction
Edgar.
Craig Smith
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