James Reasoner, an HBJ fan and a wildly prolific neo-pulpster himself, recommends the Wildside H. If you're looking to just dip your toe into the water, Roy Glashan's Library has most of Bedford-Jones' popular "John Solomon" stories free as extexts. The epic collection, Ships and Men, looks pretty damned cool as well. Books of particular note to DMR readers would be the novels They Lived By the Sword and The Cross and the Hammer. I don't know where he found the time to do any research.įor several years, Altus Press has been publishing HBJ's entire corpus of work in quality uniform editions. His plots move right along and he generally nails historical details surprisingly well. HBJ's writing style is lean and economical and his characterization is good. Despite cranking out his stories at an awesome rate, the man could write a quality adventure tale. While I can't be called a Bedford-Jones scholar, by any means, I have read some of his fiction.
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