G. W. THOMAS on HAWK CARSE

My partner in literary crime and extortion, G. W. Thomas has a guest post at Michael May's Adventure Blog. It's all about a little remembered Sci-fi hero from the pulp era; Hawk Carse.

As usual, Thomas' knowledge of the subject is voluminous and fascinating. Check it out!

The author of “Hawk Carse” was one of the Age of Wonder’s great mysteries. Who was Anthony Gilmore? The answer turned out to be Harry Bates and Desmond W. Hall, the editor and assistant editor of the magazine that published Hawk’s four original adventures, Astounding Stories of Super-Science, what fans now call the Clayton Astounding. This magazine was the first to offer Science Fiction as an adventure medium (not a hobbyist magazine like Amazing or the high-brow of Campbell’sAstounding in 1938) for Pulp readers during the Depression era. And the hero of such a magazine would have to be an amazing adventurer.


Living on the Saturnine moon, Iapetus, Hawk roars around the solar system in The Star Devil, the fastest and most up-to-date cruiser. Amongst Hawk’s allies is Friday, the black man rescued from a Venusian slave-ship by Carse, nick-named ‘Eclipse’. He is a muscular and quick-witted friend. Master Scientist Eliot Leithgow (or M. S.) is the scientific mind behind Carse’s modern gadgetry, working away in his secret laboratory to create new and exciting weapons for Carse to use against his sinister enemies such as Kui Su, the evil puppet-master behind the criminals of the solar system, master to men like Judd the Kite. The model for this dastardly villain isn’t hard to spot: Sax Rohmer’s Dr. Fu Manchu. Along with Rohmer’s good guys and bad guys, Gilmore also inherited his racial elements, but more on that later.

Read the rest of the article here.

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SPACE WESTERNS!

So I've been busy.


I am a partner in a publishing venture, R a g e  M a c h i n e Books. We recently had a conference where we set a number of goals to finish before the end of the year. This means that I am going to be busy doing covers for the various publication that we will be putting out as well as writing a number of them (as Jack Mackenzie). Between that and the commissions I have undertaken I will not be able to blog with a great deal of frequency. It is a very exciting time, though!

The newest books (available soon) feature G. W. Thomas' space cowboy Ranger Nealy. Set on the planet Utukku, Ranger Neely has to deal with bandits, Central Command disconnect, the local indigenous lifeforms and even a lost race of called the Harlequins.

If you`re a fan of Space Westerns, Firefly, or just great action adventure, then these books will be right up your alley.


Visit G. W. Thomas`blog here. The books will be available very soon from Amazon.com exclusively for the Kindle.




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BODY OF WORK

Original illustration for "Body of Work" by M. D. Jackson

"Body of Work" by G. W. Thomas

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Cthulhu Mythos Mystery at 4290 wrds.

The book had disappeared and the man who had stolen it was dead. How was he going to make a dead man give up his secret?

Series: The Book Collector and Cthulhu Mythos series

Original illustration for "Body of Work" by M. D. Jackson

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BLACK SUN

Original Illustration for "Black Sun by M. D. Jackson

"Black Sun" by G. W. Thomas

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Cthulhu Mythos Horror at 5849 wrds.

"A Fan tour de force!"

The Dark Man has come to Space Station 7734 -- or Station Hell as the inhabitants call it--and the terror has just begun.

Original illustration for "Black Sun" by M. D. Jackson

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THE CASE OF THE PHANTOM LEGION

The Case of the Phantom Legion by G. W. Thomas is a supernatural adventure novel in the great old pulp magazine tradition. I did the cover art as well as the cover design and the interior of the book. I tried to make it look like you were holding an old- beat-up pulp magazine from the '30's.

What's it about?

The Athenodorians, a secret organization headed by the Baron von Klarnstein, must fight an invisible enemy that drains its victims. The Baron's daughter, Orestia, has her sword ready to face an unfaceable terror.

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It's also available as a trade paberback

$13.49 from Lulu

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