Re: Ace Double Reviews, 68: Bulmer/Hamilton

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 09:41:46 GMT, ted@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ted Nolan
<tednolan>) wrote:

>In article <3bd5t1p1bm613ej30qv16btgq2iv7csksj@xxxxxxx>,
>Rich Horton <rrhorton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>Ace Double Reviews, 68: Land Beyond the Map, by Kenneth
>>Bulmer/Fugitive of the Stars, by Edmond Hamilton (#M-111, 1965, $0.45)
>>
>>Kenneth Bulmer died just recently. He was a very prolific British
>>writer, best known perhaps for his Dray Prescot series for DAW as by
>>"Alan Burt Akers". I've read a few previous Ace Doubles, and found his
>>work competent but uninspiring for the most part. _Land Beyond the
>>Map_ is about 48,000 words long, and seems to be a standalone work.
>
>I may be wrong, but I think it's either part of or a precursor of
>his "KEYS TO THE DIMENSIONS SERIES". An online bibliography at
>http://www.myunicorn.com/bibl30/bibl3011.html suggests these are the
>books in the series proper:
>
> THE KEY TO IRUNIUM ...................................... 1967
> THE KEY TO VENUDINE ..................................... 1968
> THE WIZARDS OF SENCHURIA ................................ 1969
> THE SHIPS OF DUROSTORUM ................................. 1970
> THE HUNTERS OF JUNDAGAI ................................. 1971
> THE CHARIOTS OF RA ...................................... 1972
> THE DIAMOND CONTESSAE ................................... 1983
>
>but I remember specifically thinking that they were tied to _Land Byond
>the Map_, for reasons I can't recall right now. (Did LBTM have individuals
>called "porteurs" who could dimension hop?)

Hmmm. It doesn't have porteurs. It involves only one additional
dimension explicitly -- though it implies more.

It could be a precursor, either in concept or in reality. I.e., Bulmer
may have intended the characters in LBTM to be doing the same thing as
the people in the Keys stories, but not as knowingly. I can't make a
specific connection, however -- but there may be one.

I've only read _The Wizards of Senchuria_, by the way.
.

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