10702 Sun February 07 2010 - 06:26:34 Fullname: Darkomik77 Email: Comments: I went over to IMDb and found three of his books that are adapted. "The Paper Dolls" was adapted for British television back in the '60s in both Journey Into Unknown and Journey Into Darkness. The shows are the same but it's the first episode. The second one's Project X directed by William Castle based on the novel, The Artificial Man. The website didn't say it but I checked other sources that said it's based on that book. The third one, of course, was Groundstar Conspiracy based on the book "The Alien." I wished they were all on DVD. :( 10701 Sun February 07 2010 - 03:23:59 Fullname: Randy Email: Comments: I meant it as a compliment. I lifted that bio from product description of one of his books at Amazon. 10700 Sat February 06 2010 - 06:19:05 Fullname: Darkomik77 Email: Comments: I take that as a compliment. Thanks. :) Yeah, I've read that bio many times over at Wikipedia. Still, it's a pity we won't be able to locate his stories published under various pseudonyms. The only pseudonym I know of was Leslie Verdre of two of his novels, Tell It To the Dead and The Nameless Ones. Then they were republished under his own name as, The Reluctant Medium aka Tell It To the Dead, and A Grave Matter aka The Nameless Ones. Despite his bio, Davies still remains an enigmatic one. 10699 Fri February 05 2010 - 12:37:58 Fullname: Randy Email: Comments: Dark, you are an author's dream reader, that is, you keep them alive by reading their works long after they've died. I'd never heard of Davies but I found a pretty good nutshell bio: Leslie Purnell Davies (20 October 1914 - 6 January 1988) was a British novelist whose works typically combine elements of horror, science fiction and mystery. He also wrote many short stories under several pseudonyms. Davies' books deal with the defects, evolution or manipulation of human consciousness, and in some ways are comparable to the works of Philip K. Dick. (The premise of The Artificial Man certainly bears some resemblance to that of Dick's Time Out of Joint.) His protagonists frequently suffer from amnesia or other loss of identity, and their quest to find out who they really are drives the plot. Davies' novel The Alien (1968) was very freely adapted into the 1972 film The Groundstar Conspiracy, starring George Peppard and Michael Sarrazin. Davies worked as a pharmacist, postmaster, optometrist and gift shop owner, and served in the British Army Medical Corps in France, Italy and North Africa. 10698 Fri February 05 2010 - 07:14:10 Fullname: Darkomik77 Email: Comments: Never did get his other stuff. I only got a copy of Catcher In the Rye and that's it. Right now, I'm busy reading several of L.P. Davies' novels. Mind blowers they are. He's at his best when dealing with the subject of memory, identity, and reality being seriously skewered. Just about finished with "Who Is Lewis Pinder?" aka "Man Out Of Nowhere." A man was found unconscious with no memory. Later, a handful of people claimed to recognize him as four seperate people who are already dead back in the time of WWII. This is going to be one interesting puzzle in a strange mystery. 10697 Tue February 02 2010 - 13:17:09 Fullname: Randy Email: Comments: Sorry to be so slow to respond but my old computer went belly-up and we had to get a new one. Personlly, I think Salinger was overrated a bit. Did you ever try to read some of his other stuff? I never could get into them. CATCHER came along at the right time but it was mostly for its time and not later, as I see it. To me his significance is mostly historical. 10696 Fri January 29 2010 - 05:19:03 Fullname: Darkomik77 Email: Comments: Then again, I could be wrong. Maybe he does have manuscripts left behind. But like I said, I'm not holding my breath on that one. This is just my cynical self. 10695 Fri January 29 2010 - 05:05:41 Fullname: Darkomik77 Email: Comments: Well, it's RIP all over again, J.D. Salinger, the guy who gave us Catcher In The Rye, has passed away in his own home. Predictably, his fanboys everywhere are salivating at the possibility of posthumous works being published at long last. I, for one, am not holding my breath. Ten bucks says he's either destroyed his manuscripts or hasn't written a single word after the 1951 publication of his famous work. Just remember, he's famously reclusive. He scowls at anyone who dared snap a picture of him. He refused to grant interviews, except for one time in 1980s. He refused to publish anything else after 1975. He's also refused to grant movie rights, radio rights, not even a comic book adaptation. He's basically not having anything to do with the world. Except to keep his work in print, and defend violently against anything with a hint of plagiarism. Just ask the Swedish guy who tried to publish a sequel last year. 10694 Fri January 22 2010 - 03:38:27 Fullname: Darkomik77 Email: Comments: Yep, and that includes his westerns. 10693 Wed January 20 2010 - 13:38:21 Fullname: Randy Email: Comments: I first got the sad news at The Big Adios (thanks, Dave). But Parker left behind a library of his books. A great and intense movie is THE HURT LOCKER, by my favorite lady director, Kathryn Bigelow. But enough politics. I have another story online at DEADLINES -- this one is a reprint of "The Seventh Demon" which was part of the HELP anthology fund-raiser for Preditors & Editors (tho I never saw a copy and have no idea if anyone ever read it). It's here: http://deadlineszine.com/CurrentIssue.aspx 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >>
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