"Mike Resnick - Hunting Lake" - читать интересную книгу автора (Resnick Mike)

call, leave a message on Richard's answering machine, he calls
back, and five years after I start jockeying to bring KILLERS IN
AFRICA and HUNTER'S CHOICE back into print, I finally make contact
with the two people who can make it possible, and a week later
we're in business.

Easy job being an editor, right? If I make a dime an hour for
the time I put in, I think I'll be ahead of the game.
Anyway, as I write these words, KILLERS IN AFRICA is in
print, and HUNTER'S CHOICE is a month from publication and will be
in print long before any of you read this. Two-thirds of my Good
Samaritan work is done: I got Lake back into print, and I got all
of Barry Malzberg's recursive science fiction back into print in
one big volume (PASSAGE OF THE LIGHT, written by Barry, edited by
me and Tony Lewis, published by NESFA, and you should all run
right out and buy it.) If I can just get Ross Spencer's hilarious
Chance Perdue novels back into print -- and I'm working on it; it
may even be a _fait accompli_ by the time you read this -- I'll
feel like I've paid my dues in full.

Since some of you may be wondering what all the fuss is
about, here's the introduction I wrote for HUNTER'S CHOICE, which
will hopefully whet your appetites:

When we reprinted Alexander Lake's first book, KILLERS IN
AFRICA, last spring, we promised you that if it sold at all well,
we'd be following it up with his HUNTER'S CHOICE. The sales
figures are in, the readers have spoken, and here it is -- another
book by that most readable of all authors of Africana.
Encountering an Alexander Lake book is very much like sitting
around an African campfire and letting an old pro spin tales of
his youth -- but while KILLERS IN AFRICA was strictly about
hunting, and was divided into chapters about various animals,
HUNTER'S CHOICE is a true potpourri of tales guaranteed to tweak
anyone's sense of wonder and adventure.
It even has a chapter unique to African books. Every hunter
will happily tell you about the chase and the kill, and then
regale you with how wonderful that kudu or impala tasted -- but
only Alexander Lake tells you, delightfully, _how_ to cook that
beast once you've killed it.
Ever wonder how to trap sixty monkeys armed with nothing but
twenty gallons of bad booze? Trust Lake to supply the hilarious
answer.
Could anyone -- even Lake's brilliant tracker, Ubusuku --
possibly kill the Big Five armed only with a hand axe? Lake
describes the hunt that was initiated by a two thousand pound bet
(the pre-World War I equivalent of a $100,000 wager) between an
American hunter and Lake's employer, Nicobar Jones.
Lake even recounts a jungle murder, and the recovery of three
of King John's emeralds.