{"id":19886,"date":"2020-07-09T22:14:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T21:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19886"},"modified":"2020-07-09T22:14:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T21:14:18","slug":"the-fantastic-fiction-of-hannes-bok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/07\/09\/the-fantastic-fiction-of-hannes-bok\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fantastic Fiction of Hannes Bok"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A belated note of thanks to Robert T. Garcia who sent me a PDF of this book a few weeks ago. The Fantastic Fiction of Hannes Bok<\/em><\/a> is a hardcover collection of three fantasy novels by artist Hannes Bok, all of which have been out of print for decades (75 years in the case of Starstone World<\/em>). Bok has a lasting reputation as an illustrator of fantasy, science fiction and horror during the pulp era but he also wrote fiction and poetry for the pulps, in addition to essays for Mystic Magazine<\/em> that included a short-lived astrology column. Two of Bok’s novels were published posthumously by Lin Carter in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, the existence of which intrigued me for many years, not least because the Ballantine paperbacks weren’t easy to find in UK bookshops. Bok’s fantasy isn’t quite to my taste (I prefer things to be generally darker and more grotesque<\/a>) but I’m pleased to see these stories back in the world.<\/p>\n

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Contents:<\/em>
\n\u2022 The Fantastic Fiction of Hannes Bok<\/em>‘s cover art is by Bok (published previously in Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration<\/em> in a poor image, scanned here for the first time from the original).
\n\u2022 Original Introduction by Charles de Lint!
\n\u2022 Ballantine Adult Fantasy editor Lin Carter’s introductions to The Sorcerer’s Ship<\/em> and Beyond the Golden Stair<\/em>, plus an all-new afterword detailing the publishing history of The Sorcerer’s Ship<\/em> by Bok collector and college professor William Lorenzo. Publisher, Bob Garcia provided an introduction to Starstone World<\/em>.
\n\u2022 A number of unpublished photos of Bok.
\n\u2022 Bok’s pulp art for The Sorcerer’s Ship<\/em> is included, plus two paintings specified by the artist as illustrating that novel: a color reprise of an interior illustration and a color portrait of the creature Yanuk done for a fan.
\n\u2022 Since the other two novels did not have artwork by the artist, Jim Pitts provides us a wonderful original frontispiece for each.
\n\u2022 Bok sketches from The Hannes Bok Sketchbook Folio<\/em>, and A Hannes Bok Sketchbook<\/em> plus unpublished sketches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A belated note of thanks to Robert T. Garcia who sent me a PDF of this book a few weeks ago. The Fantastic Fiction of Hannes Bok is a hardcover collection of three fantasy novels by artist Hannes Bok, all of which have been out of print for decades (75 years in the case of … Continue reading “The Fantastic Fiction of Hannes Bok”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: The Fantastic Fiction of Hannes Bok","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,21,48,43],"tags":[487,2150,10410,10758],"class_list":["post-19886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","category-magazines","tag-charles-de-lint","tag-hannes-bok","tag-lin-carter","tag-robert-t-garcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5aK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}