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East of Samarinda

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1989

Pages
  
229 pp

Originally published
  
1989

Cover artist
  
Gary Dumm

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Softback)

ISBN
  
0-87972-441-2

Author
  
Carl Richard Jacobi

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Publisher
  
Bowling Green State University

Genres
  
Short story, Adventure fiction, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
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East of Samarinda is a collection of stories by author Carl Jacobi. It was released in 1989 by Bowling Green State University Popular Press. Although Jacobi is known mostly for his horror and science fiction stories, this book collects adventure stories set in Borneo and the South Seas. The collection was edited by Carl Jacobi and R. Dixon Smith. Jacobi also provides a preface and Smith wrote the introduction ("Open Hell Without Quarter").

Contents

The stories 21 originally appeared in pulp magazines such as Thrilling Adventure and are reprinted in facsimile from the original pulps in which they appeared, including illustrations.

Setting

Fourteen of the short stories are set in Dutch East Borneo, two in British North Borneo, two in New Guinea, two in the South Seas (South China Sea, East China Sea and Southern Pacific Ocean) and one off the coast of the Unfederated Malay States.

Contents

East of Samarinda contains the following stories:

  1. "Crocodile"
  2. Originally published in Complete Stories, 30 April 1934
  3. "Letter of Dismissal"
  4. Originally published in Top-Notch, October 1934
  5. "Sumpitan"
  6. Originally published in Top-Notch, October 1935
  7. "Death on Tin Can"
  8. Originally published in The Skipper, December 1937
  9. "East of Samarinda"
  10. Originally published in The Skipper, July 1937
  11. "The Jade Scarlotti"
  12. Originally published in Short Stories, 10 July 1948
  13. "Death's Outpost"
  14. Originally published in Thrilling Mystery, May 1939
  15. "Leopard Tracks"
  16. Originally published in Short Stories, 10 July 1938
  17. "Deceit Post"
  18. Originally published in Complete Stories, 18 February 1935
  19. "Jungle Wires"
  20. Originally published in Complete Stories, 24 September 1934
  21. "Holt Sails the 'San Hing'"
  22. Originally published in Short Stories, 25 January 1938
  23. "Quarry"
  24. Originally published in Dime Adventure Magazine, December 1935
  25. "Trial by Jungle"
  26. Originally published in Thrilling Adventures, September 1939
  27. "Hamadryad Chair"
  28. Originally published in 10 Story Mystery Magazine, February 1942
  29. "A Film in the Bush"
  30. Originally published in Doc Savage, September 1937
  31. "Redemption Trail"
  32. Originally published in Thrilling Adventures, October 1941
  33. "Black Passage"
  34. Originally published in Thrilling Adventures, May 1936
  35. "Spider Wires"
  36. Originally published in Thrilling Adventures, January 1937
  37. "Tiger Island"
  38. Originally published in Thrilling Adventures, May 1937
  39. "Dead Man's River"
  40. Originally published in Thrilling Adventures, January 1937
  41. "Submarine I-26"
  42. Originally published in Doc Savage, March 1944

References

East of Samarinda Wikipedia
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