Re: Bullard of the Space Patrol

Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> writes:

In article <87msle9zvx.fsf@comcast.net.invalid>,
 Don_from_AZ <djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid> wrote:
>

Recent posts involving libraries and how people got started reading SF
got me thinking about my first experiences in finding books at the
library. I'm sure I encountered Asimov and Heinlein there fairly early
on, but the book that made the earliest strong impression was "Bullard
of the Space Patrol" by Malcolm Jameson. "Who?" you may well ask. Not
nearly as well known as other Golden Age authors, he apparently wrote
mostly short stories and novellas.
 
A series of short stories involving the space naval career of the
eponymous Bullard[1], from Lieutenant to Admiral, was collected in
"Bullard of the Space Patrol", edited by Andre Norton. The one that
stuck with me longest was "Bullard Reflects", in which Bullard and his
crew were captured by space pirates, turned loose weaponless in
spacesuits to be hunted down for sport. Bullard turns the tables on the
bad guys in a quite surprising and clever way.
 

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IIRC, one of the stories in that collection wasn't a Bullard story in
the original magazine publication. The main character's name was changed
for the collection.
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Curious to see if I could find this book again, I googled Bullard and
Malcolm Jameson and found quite a few references online, in ISFDB,
Wikipedia and elsewhere.
 
  https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?448
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Jameson
 
Not only that, but the "Bullard of the Space Patrol" book is available
in hardcover online for prices up to $60 and even $100 dollars! Even
more surprising, a Kindle ebook version from Amazon at only $2.99!
(Guess which one I bought.) I am about to discover how well the stories
have held up in the 65 years since I first encountered them.
  -Don-

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If the e-book you bought was _Bullard: Tales of the Space Patrol_, it
has a short story and a short-short that didn't appear in the early
1950s hardcover. It also has an article on space warfare published in
1939 that, IMHO, holds up very well.

Yes, that's the one. It has ten stories and two articles: "Space War
Tactics" and "Space War Strategy".
  -Don-