Who says a private eye has to walk the mean streets of LA? Burkett has found an apt home for hardboiled p.i. Eddie Hummel in that rainy city of Seattle. An outstanding read." - H.L. Osterman, Short Changed Seattle private eye Eddie Hummel gets called onto the case of a family with a missing twenty-year-old daughter. However, there's more to the Filmore family than meets the eye. Here, in the hardboiled '70s, Hummel puts his sleuthing skills into high gear and starts rattling a few ... family skeletons.
For Bill Burkett, life has been an extended series of duck hunts. Here are his personal diaries that describe memorable hunts along with the high points of his journalistic career. Any hunter will identify and find these tales as exhilarating as taking down that first bluebill, canvasback, or greenwing teal.
The career of a newspaper journalist told as a series of short stories, each more fascinating than the one before. This saga of a reporter's career is real enough to be true. A roman à clef? A memoir? Never mind, just let former newspaper gypsy Bill Burkett tell you his stories.
While serving as a husky young MP in Europe, noted sci-fi author Bill Burkett kept a diary of his misadventures, encounters, romances, and sightseeing. Later, he turned these scribblings into what he calls Brautigans, so named after a writer named Richard Brautigan whose short story style he admired. Many of these stories never made it into collections of Burkett's work, so he refers to them as "orphans," unclaimed writing that have been pulled together under the general theme of soldiering. But in addition to stories of Burkett's military days you will also be treated to adventures in the Bahamas and the American northwest. "A real treat," says anthologist Hollis George, who worked with Burkett in their early newspapering days.
Science Fiction Encyclopedia described this as a "hard-edged" tale of the 24th-century conquest of Earth by an alien empire the humans had judged too stupid to pull off such a coup. Only a handful of humans escaped the effects of a mutated narcoleptic drug that put humanity into protracted hibernation. The battle to liberate Earth is fought by those few with the aid of a vengeful ghost called "Gremper" by the aliens. The action is fast and furious, while the genius general of the invading fleet goes slowly insane at the disruption of his well-laid plans. "A natural-born storyteller," said bestselling author Frank G. Slaughter. A classic reprint of a sci-fi masterpiece.
Burkett sees his life as a series of literary vignettes, and here are those stories capturing his days in the military. Not tales of a shooting war — rather they're the sharp observations of a young man facing a cold war of the heart." - Shirrel Rhoades Former Associate Publisher, Harper's Magazine Another masterful collection of short fiction from the author of Mean Grey Old Morning, After August, Twin Killing, and Sleeping Planet. Here are impressionistic stories about his military days in Europe and budding love in the City of Lights.
Man Meets Ball The all-brain cyborg known as Ball and I are old friends. We met as big-game hunters, stalking the most vicious creature in the Universe'the Pondoro Wolverine, also known as the greer. Now we're on the planet Ptolemy for an even more dangerous contest'a ritual renga competition (plus a little sport shooting of dragons). First prize is a parasitic life-form with hyper-Newtonian communicative abilities. The loser gets Death. The winner gets to envy the loser. And the game is about to begin....
Me and my robot. We're big game hunters. And we're after the biggest game in the known universe. The Pondoro Wolverine -- also known as the greer. Smart. Fast. And deadly. The hunter who taught me to stalk them had to grow a new leg to replace the one a greer boar ripped off. The greer fight to death -- and a little beyond -- because they have a great secret to protect. Which is all right with me and my robot. That secret is the trophy we've come to collect. Dead or alive...
After being banished into deep space and forgotten, these outcasts made contact with alien species and raised a great army for their return. But an ensuing stalemate between the forces required new tactics. So the enemy infiltrated the isolated planet as stealthily as a virus and like a virus was mutating the native beings for the enemy's use. And they recruited a penetration agent of peculiarly powerful mental abilities, built him a perfect clone body, and sent him to find out if the infection was so advanced they might have to kill the host by destroying the planet that its inhabitants called Earth ... It was simply a matter of logistics!
Up in the Pacific Northwest, folks whisper about big hairy human-like creatures they call skooks. Others might refer to them as sasquatch, or Big Foot. A down-on-his-luck ex-newspaperman lives there on the plateau with his family, not far from the Gorge where strange sightings take place. When his son is kidnapped by one of these mysterious creatures, he hunts it down and retrieves his son. But according to an old mountaineer known as Joe Consonant, the boy is “marked” and the mysterious visitors will come back for him. Is a 30.06, a trusty dog, and an elephant bell enough to protect his family? Maybe not.
The Duck Hunter Diaries is about hunting and the pleasures of the outdoors ... but it's really about life, the life of a wandering journalist whose days of bagging ducks is a metaphor for his own struggling existence." —Hollis George, editor Writing Tips: From the Pens of Famous Writers. "Bill Burkett has spent a good portion of his life hunting ducks. And writing about it. His diaries will make you feel like you're out there on the water with him." —Shirrel Rhoades, former associate publisher, Harper's Magazine
Who says a private eye has to walk the mean streets of LA? Burkett has found an apt home for hardboiled p.i. Eddie Hummel in that rainy city of Seattle. An outstanding read." - H.L. Osterman, Short Changed Seattle private eye Eddie Hummel gets called onto the case of a family with a missing twenty-year-old daughter. However, there's more to the Filmore family than meets the eye. Here, in the hardboiled '70s, Hummel puts his sleuthing skills into high gear and starts rattling a few ... family skeletons.
The Duck Hunter Diaries is about hunting and the pleasures of the outdoors ... but it's really about life, the life of a wandering journalist whose days of bagging ducks is a metaphor for his own struggling existence." —Hollis George, editor Writing Tips: From the Pens of Famous Writers. "Bill Burkett has spent a good portion of his life hunting ducks. And writing about it. His diaries will make you feel like you're out there on the water with him." —Shirrel Rhoades, former associate publisher, Harper's Magazine
For Bill Burkett, life has been an extended series of duck hunts. Here are his personal diaries that describe memorable hunts along with the high points of his journalistic career. Any hunter will identify and find these tales as exhilarating as taking down that first bluebill, canvasback, or greenwing teal.
After being banished into deep space and forgotten, these outcasts made contact with alien species and raised a great army for their return. But an ensuing stalemate between the forces required new tactics. So the enemy infiltrated the isolated planet as stealthily as a virus and like a virus was mutating the native beings for the enemy's use. And they recruited a penetration agent of peculiarly powerful mental abilities, built him a perfect clone body, and sent him to find out if the infection was so advanced they might have to kill the host by destroying the planet that its inhabitants called Earth ... It was simply a matter of logistics!
Science Fiction Encyclopedia described this as a "hard-edged" tale of the 24th-century conquest of Earth by an alien empire the humans had judged too stupid to pull off such a coup. Only a handful of humans escaped the effects of a mutated narcoleptic drug that put humanity into protracted hibernation. The battle to liberate Earth is fought by those few with the aid of a vengeful ghost called "Gremper" by the aliens. The action is fast and furious, while the genius general of the invading fleet goes slowly insane at the disruption of his well-laid plans. "A natural-born storyteller," said bestselling author Frank G. Slaughter. A classic reprint of a sci-fi masterpiece.
Burkett sees his life as a series of literary vignettes, and here are those stories capturing his days in the military. Not tales of a shooting war — rather they're the sharp observations of a young man facing a cold war of the heart." - Shirrel Rhoades Former Associate Publisher, Harper's Magazine Another masterful collection of short fiction from the author of Mean Grey Old Morning, After August, Twin Killing, and Sleeping Planet. Here are impressionistic stories about his military days in Europe and budding love in the City of Lights.
Ever read a story that made the hairs on your arms stand up? Well, get ready for a few unexpected chills as you read this new collection of short stories from the pen of William R. Burkett, Jr. Each of these stories are slightly off-center, just enough to be … unsettling. From the title story (it first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post) to encounters with flying saucers and near-encounters with Santa Claus, Burkett will keep you guessing just where the boundaries of reality lie. “Top-notch storytelling,” says Hollis George, editor of Mary Shelley's Forbidden Dreams and Bram Stoker Without Fangs.
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