{"id":1480,"date":"2008-07-19T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2008-07-19T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T13:05:08","slug":"introducing_gabriel_hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/19\/introducing_gabriel_hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Gabriel Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oh, I think I’m going to like this… via Michael May’s Adventureblog<\/a> I’ve just heard about a new series of pulp-adventure novels to be published by Hard Case Crime<\/a>, the wonderful small-press company that’s been trying to single-handedly revive a bygone aesthetic with a mix of Golden Age reprints and new material by current authors, all wrapped in lurid vintage-style art work. (FYI, Hard Case may be best known for publishing Stephen King’s experimental mystery\/journalism novel The Colorado Kid<\/i><\/a>, which I quite liked although I know many other folks did not).<\/p>\n

Bookgasm has the goods<\/a> on this new series:<\/p>\n

Debuting next May, the novels will be issued once a month in true serial fashion, ghostwritten by several Hard Case authors under the nom de plume of [Gabriel] Hunt himself, the globetrotting adventurer, with painted covers by Glen Orbik.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The publisher promises classic adventure fiction aimed squarely at \u201canyone who grew up reading H. Rider Haggard<\/a> and Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/a> or watching Harrison Ford wield his bullwhip at the movies.\u201d Sounds right up my alley, and in fact I’m jealous I didn’t think of doing this myself. The timing probably couldn’t be better; I suspect there’s a whole lot of people out there for whom Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull<\/i> was just good enough to whet their appetite for more period adventure, but they haven’t quite known where to find it. In fact, when I saw the promo art above, I thought at first glance that it was for a new Indy tie-in (it was the Sallah clone in the fez that did it, I think, since Gabriel Hunt himself looks more like Rick O’Connell in the Mummy<\/i> movies).<\/p>\n

Anyhow, if you think this might be something you’d like, too, head over to “Hunt’s” official web site<\/a> and sign up for the email newsletter. I’ll post more details about the series as I encounter them…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, I think I’m going to like this… via Michael May’s Adventureblog I’ve just heard about a new series of pulp-adventure novels to be published by Hard Case Crime, the wonderful small-press company that’s been trying to single-handedly revive a bygone aesthetic with a mix of Golden Age reprints and new material by current authors, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bookshelf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}