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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, John Armstrong
<pachuco@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks Kat - I'll look for Shetterly.
>
> BTW, M W Wellman's name came up in a recent post and
that got me on -
> don't ask how my brain works - a jag about
three-name authors and pulp,
> and the first that came to mine was Robert Leslie
Bellem.
> I thought his stuff was dreadful, but it had an
outrageous,
over-the-top
> charm regardless. At least it did 30 years ago, when
I last read any of
> his stories.
I'm a Bellem fan and I've never gotten tired of his
brilliantly inept stories. Whatever he needs, he brings into
the story. If an evil dwarf will wrap it up, he creates one,
and if the evil dwarf needs to be the incestuous son of the
villain, he makes him one. He's often compared to Prather,
but Prather was realistic, relatively speaking. Bellem was
out there. To speak of bad writing is to miss the point of
his comic genius.
Best,
mrt
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