Goulart has also written several comic mystery series, including six books starring Groucho Marx. In the 1970s Goulart wrote novels starring series characters like Flash Gordon and the Phantom, and in 1980 he published Hail Hibbler, a comic sci-fi novel that began the Odd Jobs, Inc.
Goulart’s After Things Fell Apart (1970) is the only science-fiction novel to ever win an Edgar Award. In the 1990s, he became the ghostwriter for William Shatner’s popular TekWar novels. Since then he has written dozens of novels and countless short stories, spanning genres and using a variety of pennames, including Kenneth Robeson, Joseph Silva, and Con Steffanson. Besides writing extensively about pulp fiction-including the seminal Cheap Thrills: An Informal History of Pulp Magazines (1972)-Goulart has written for the pulps since 1952, when the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction published his first story, a sci-fi parody of letters to the editor.
Ron Goulart is a cultural historian and novelist. I liked this volume more than the first books, but it didn't quite live up to what it might've been.Pseudonyms: Howard Lee Frank S Shawn Kenneth Robeson Con Steffanson Josephine Kains Joseph Silva William Shatner. My favorite story was Galactic by Arthur Byron Cover, a terrific (as the cover blurb says): "incredible mix of high-fantasy heroics, low-budget monsters, and- hard-boiled fiction!" All of the art was very good and added a lot to the book, especially the work of Alex Nino, Ralph Reese, Terrry Austin, and the Steve Hickman cover of the Cover. Ben Bova's Orion was good, not your typical Bova hard-science kind of rigorous thing at all, but fun. Ron Goulart's Shinbet was all right, but I liked his Gypsy from the earlier volumes better. I enjoyed the biographical section on the great pulp writer Edmond Hamilton, but I'm not too sure it really fit the theme.
Philip Jose Farmer's Greatheart Silver is the only repeater from the first pair of books, and it was more enjoyable than the debut but still didn't really grab me. It was a nifty concept that was executed with a lot of verve and enthusiasm, but the results weren't as good as one might have wished. It's the third anthology but volume six in the series because numbers three through five were full-length individual novels. This is the third anthology of short fiction in a series that's stated intent was to bring back the spirit of the superhero pulps for the modern (the book appeared in 1977) age.
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