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 Savoy History
 Something Else 1

Editor/Publisher: Charles Partington

1980

B&W & colour illustrated

297mm x 210mm

Soft cover

52pp
Something Else 1
  Lying like an island offshore from our independent magazines and Savoy itself are these three editions of Charles Partington's Something Else. An independent publisher in the 1970s and ''80s and Britton's partner for the first Savoy publication (Stormbringer), Partington shared a taste for the fantastic and eclectic, as can be seen in the heady contents of his magazines.

Now a professional writer, Charles has sold short stories to a number of diverse markets, including Arkham House and New Worlds, and is most lately enjoying success as the creator of the dashing sea-faring captain, Jack Gallant, whose latest adventures can be found in the collections Sword and Honour and Hearts of Oak, both published in 2000 by Robinson's and edited by Mike Ashley.

The premier issue of SE features an Elric centrepiece from Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn, fiction from Brian Aldiss and M John Harrison (an extract from A Storm of Wings) and one of Charles' best stories, Nosferatu's Ape.

Cover: Alphonse Mucha
  Contents:

Fiction

  • Brian W Aldiss—'Three Evolutionary Enigmas: "The Fall of Species B",
    "In the Halls of the Hereafter", "The Ancestral Home of Thought"'
  • Andrew J Ellsmore—'Dinosaur Destruction Day'
  • M John Harrison—'The Sudden Embodiment of Benedict Paucemanly'
    (extract from A Storm of Wings)
  • Michael Moorcock—'The Russian Intelligence'
    (extract from Savoy's edition of The Russian Intelligence)
  • Charles Partington—'Nosferatu's Ape'

Fiction-art

  • James Cawthorn & Michael Moorcock—'Dream of a Doomed Lord'
  • Robert Meadley & Richard Glyn Jones—'Wonderful Discovery of Eng-lan'

Non-fiction

  • Tony Williams—book reviews:
    • 'The Golden Barge' by Michael Moorcock
    • 'The Roots of Horror in the Fiction of HP Lovecraft' by Barton Levi St Armand
    • Robert Holland—book reviews:
    • 'The Savoy Book' Eds David Britton & Michael Butterworth
  • Tony Williams—'Providence'

Art

  • Michael John Garner—magazine logo
  • Eddie Jones—'Dejah Thoris'
  • Moy
  • Dave Griffiths
  • John Mottershead—back cover typography
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