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So over my trip I reread the old Jack Yeovil books Demon Download and Krocodile Tears.

In the distant future year of 1999, Oliver North is President, evil Mormons are plotting to summon Cthulhu and everyone drives spikey cars with guns on them.




They're two of my favorite books, loaded with insane ideas, over the top violence and at least 10 pop culture references a page.

Just great.

They're also one of the great unfinished symphonies. Jack Yeovil (a pen name for Kim Newman) wrote 3 (or 4, I'll get to that later) books, the aforementioned Demon Download and Krocodile Tears and Comeback Tour where retired special forces officer and former singer Elvis Aron Presley fights mutant alligator men in Florida. But the last book, U.S. Cavalry was never printed, the only copy was lost in a computer crash years ago.

There's also a short story that launched the series called Route 666, included in a short story collection conveniently called Route 666 edited by David Pringle.



Here's where things get complicated.

At some point the short story Route 666, was blown up into a novel called... naturally enough, Route 666 by Jack Yeovil.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1852833688/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&m=A1JHNNKN9AE6HO

Comparing the information on this page to my copy of the Pringle short story collection this looks like a different book, different ISBN, different page count.

So should I go ahead and order it? Does anyone know if it has illustrations and other features? Worth ordering from the UK just to have a complete set of the Boxtree books?

And by the way GW eventually rereleased Route 666 the novel by Yeovil, but edited it to update the timeline and cultural references. So it's not like I haven't read the book...

http://www.amazon.com/Route-Dark-Future-Jack-Yeovil/dp/184416327X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339113242&sr=8-1

I've only got the short story collection, plus krokodil tears and comeback tour.
Never been able to get the novel length version of the title story out here (GW staff have never been that useful).

Big fan of Kim Newman, too.
Although I'm not a big "buy on faith" kinda guy. I like to be able to look at the item and evaluate it in person before buying (something that is getting harder and harder to do with books around these parts).

chromedog wrote:
Although I'm not a big "buy on faith" kinda guy. I like to be able to look at the item and evaluate it in person before buying (something that is getting harder and harder to do with books around these parts).

Kinda hard for a 20 year old book that (as far as I can tell) was never released in the US.

Guess sometimes I have to make a leap of faith.

But hey I finally found a cover image.

You missed one, Ghost Dancers albeit it was by Brian Craig,

Ghost dancers?

It's sitting 10' away from me on the shelf.

Pretty darn good book too.

Don't forget the superb Fantasy novels Drachenfels and Beasts In Velvet (plus several short stories) - I'd rate Beasts In Velvet highest as it's such a fabulous fantasy world whodunnit, and there was a WD article with WFRP rules for all the characters! but Drachenfels is excellent too - when I first read that (aged maybe thriteen, after Tolkien but before Pratchett or any modern fantasy) it blew my socks off.

Funnily enough as an adult I've seen Kim Newman at quite a few cult/horror film events in London (he's quite a distinctive figure) and I'm always tempted to take along a Jack Yeovil book for an autograph! - and a heartfelt thanks

Oh yes, the Vampire Genevieve is one of the better fantasy story series BL has, cheesiness and glaringly obvious pop-culture references aside.

Agreed on Beasts in Velvet, the big unveil really took me by surprise.

BrookM wrote:Oh yes, the Vampire Genevieve is one of the better fantasy story series BL has, cheesiness and glaringly obvious pop-culture references aside.

Agreed on Beasts in Velvet, the big unveil really took me by surprise.

Beasts in Velvet is very, very good. And fortunately still in print.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Vampire-Genevieve-Warhammer-Novels/dp/1844166740/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339285452&sr=8-1&keywords=vampire+Genevieve

I see some insightful and no doubt handsome reviewer gave it 5 stars.

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2H6YVY5UAZYF7/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1844166740&nodeID=283155&store=books

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

BrookM wrote:Oh yes, the Vampire Genevieve is one of the better fantasy story series BL has, cheesiness and glaringly obvious pop-culture references aside.

Agreed on Beasts in Velvet, the big unveil really took me by surprise.

Beasts in Velvet is very, very good. And fortunately still in print.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Vampire-Genevieve-Warhammer-Novels/dp/1844166740/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339285452&sr=8-1&keywords=vampire+Genevieve

I see some insightful and no doubt handsome reviewer gave it 5 stars.

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2H6YVY5UAZYF7/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1844166740&nodeID=283155&store=books

I love this series so much that I have it both in omnibus and as the four separate books.