Rex Stout will forever be linked with his immortal creations Nero Wolfe and his Boswell, Archie Goodwin. Stout's tales of the two detectives in the brownstone on West 35th Street rightly cement his place in the canon of American popular fiction. Much less well known is his lost race novel Under the Andes.
Read MorePhalanxes of Atlans originally appeared in the February and March issues of Astounding Stories in 1931, and was recently reprinted by Armchair Fiction in their “Lost World-Lost Race Classics” series.
Read MoreHaggard stands at the fountainhead and nexus of what I call "exotic adventure fiction." Such fiction moves beyond the sort of stories told up until that time--adventures of pirates, cowboys, swashbucklers, explorers and whatnot-- and adds something extra, something over the top, something truly exotic.
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