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  • Bibliography:
    54 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1978
  • Latest Book:
    September 2018
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Full Series List in Order

A Hobart Lindsey/Marvia Plum Mystery

1 - The Comic Book Killer (Jan-1988)
2 - The Classic Car Killer (Apr-1992)
3 - The Bessie Blue Killer (Mar-1994)
4 - The Sepia Siren Killer (Oct-1994)
5 - The Cover Girl Killer (Oct-1995)
6 - The Silver Chariot Killer (Oct-1996)
7 - The Radio Red Killer (Oct-1997)
8 - The Tinpan Tiger Killer (1998)
9 - The Emerald Cat Killer (Sep-2010)

Twin Planets

1 - Circumpolar! (Aug-1985)

Multi-Author Series List

Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon

1 - The Black Tower (Aug-1988)
6 - Final Battle (1990)

Book List in Order: 54 titles






  • Through realms of oriental splender and superhuman conflict, a beautiful woman warrior and a fierce man-god journey to challenge a being more awesome than the gods for a magical sword that holds the power of death ... and the key to enlightenment....



  • ANTARCTIC SAVAGES - PREHISTORIC MASTODONS - FLYING FORTRESSES - PARALYSING RAY GUNS - GRYPHONS - WATER-WITCHES - LOST CONTINENTS - WONDERFUL FLYING MACHINES...AND MORE!Coming soon - the most fantastic contest ever conceived: An airplane race pitting ...



  • On the other side of the sun, opposite our earth, is a world we never see Counterearth. In every way it's identical to ours...almost!Albert Einstein, Juan (and Eva) Peron, Babe Didrickson and Sir Oswald Mosley are off on a wild race to Counterearth. ...



  • He was a white, suburban bachelor. A total square. Lived with his mother. Worked for an insurance company. She was a black, tough, streetwise cop. Then somebody stole a quarter million dollars worth of rare comic books. And then people started gettin...



  • Teenage camera operator Alfonso Petrov joins a research mission bound for the edge of the solar system. But survival becomes another mission when the research team's tiny spacecraft strays into the Fiction Dimension. A madcap tale blending classic sc...



  • The quest starts here... Plunging into a vast prison that spans a planet, Clive Foliott faces a fantastic world of dwarves, cyborgs and aliens unlike anything he has ever imagined. It is a multi-leveled collection of beings in the hidden folds of ...



  • TECHNOLOGY'S GREATEST TRIUMPH. HUMANKIND'S LAST HOPE...Daniel Kitajima was a creature of mind and machine. His artificial limbs were endowed with super-human strength, his perceptual abilities enhanced with telescopic vision, radar and infrared. With...






  • The last thing computer circuit planner Daniel Kitajima remembered was being hit by a crane at an orbital construction site. Waking up 80 years later - in 2089 - he found that most of his body had been destroyed...but he had survived.A group of docto...



  • While escaping from the unknown creators of the Dungeon, Clive Folliot breaks through to the ninth level and finds himself stranded alone in a harsh polar wilderness that bears a striking resemblance to Earth...



  • It's Saturday night and mild-mannered insurance adjuster Hobart Lindsey is where he usually is -- at home with Mother -- when the call comes in: a 1928 SJ Duesenberg convertible Phaeton, worth a cool half a million dollars, has been reported stolen b...




  • During World War II, due to a shortage of qualified pilots, Uncle Sam began a program of training thousands of military pilots. Among these were the Tuskegee Airmen, a unit of African-Americans eager to fly in combat. Fifty years later a Hollywood st...



  • Prior to World War II, black actors were restricted to mainstream film roles as chauffeurs, maids, night club entertainers, and comic buffoons. But there was a second Hollywood, a BLACK Hollywood, where great producers and directors like Oscar Michau...



  • Who WAS that gorgeous model? When a helicopter loses power and plunges into the icy waters of scenic Lake Tahoe, killing its only passenger, millionaire Albert Crocker Vansittart, what looks like a routine claim against a life insurance policy turns ...



  • WHEN A MAN’S PARTNER IS KILLED... So begins one of the most famous quotations in all of crime fiction. And just as the murder of Sam Spade's partner, Miles Archer, sets off the quest in the great Dashiell Hammett's greatest novel, so the murder of ...




  • Bob Bjorner is the last of the "red hot lefties" at radio station KRED in Berkeley, Calif. His paranoia makes him bring his personal lock to keep intruders out of the studio while he's on the air--but they get to him anyway! He opens his lunch, takes...










  • Is it really over? Have Hobart Lindsey and Marvia Plum solved their last case? Lindsey, the mild-mannered bachelor insurance adjuster. Plum, the tough inner-city cop and single mom. You can hardly think of an odder couple, but somehow they were able ...



  • These thirteen tales twist the conventions of science fiction, mystery, horror, humour, and adventure into one gripping collection. In 'Green Ice' unassuming Mr Ino is assigned to recover a missing extraterrestrial artefact, believed to be from the i...



  • "If you have any interest at all in satire, SF's New Wave, the Sixties, pop music, comic books, the picaresque tradition in literature, juicy, vigorous, humorous writing, or even such a trivial matter as how the world of 2003 got into the state we da...



  • So, just how was Tarzan created? Eager to know the inside story about the legendary John Carter and the amazing cities and peoples of Barsoom? Perhaps your taste is more suited to David Innes and the fantastic lost world at the Earth’s core? Or may...



  • Ranging from the mysterious to pulp action to the Lovecraftian, this vivid collection of short fiction explores a world of radio heroes, masterful villains, and creatures from places unknown....



  • SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION!! The Era of Wonderful Nonsense was over, replaced by the grimmer, grittier world of the Great Depression. But millionaire autodidact polymath Akhenaton Beelzebub Chase and his brilliant, lissome associate Claire Delacroix, li...



  • "Forever City" is the story of Alfonso Ivanovich Petrov and Mariel O'Hara, two members of a space-bred generation to whom Earth is little more than their ancestral home, a legend of the past. When Mariel's brother, Dylan, disappears o...






  • VISIONS by Richard A. Lupoff is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories selected from decades of writing. The author consistently shows himself to be a master storyteller, and these short stories are fine examples, containing psychic detecti...



  • Marblehead encompasses all of 1927, a year in which H.P. Lovecraft, researching a book he'd been hired to write for the Nazis, travels the East Coast in the company of Charles Sylvester Viereck....



  • From the Introduction by Ed Gorman: If there's one thing Dick Lupoff understands (with perverse glee) it's the sorry state of the human condition. In this collection you'll find a wide variety of humans whose conditions leave much to be desired. A pi...



  • This is a collection of Sherlockian pastiches written by Richard A. Lupoff over the years. Include five stories, a recipe (for giant rat) and an introduction by Gary Lovisi....



  • Hobart Lindsey is called back to the San Francisco Bay Area for one last case. A local book publisher is being sued over a novel that might actually be the last, lost work of a novelist killed more than a year ago....



  • In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)--here is the twelfth Wildside Double: LISA KANE: A NOVEL OF WEREWOLVES, by Richard A. Lupoff. Lisa is a 12-year-old girl with all the worries of any n...




  • I have long admired the things Dick Lupoff can do in the way of atmosphere and characterization in any sort of story-dark or light.-ROGER ZELAZNYHis books and stories, I can testify, having read a great many of them and published some myself, almost ...




  • 'INVESTIGATOR SEEKS SECRETARY, AMANUENSIS, AND GENERAL ASSISTANT. APPLICANT MUST EXHIBIT COURAGE, STRENGTH, WILLINGNESS TO TAKE RISKS AND EXPLORE THE UNKNOWN...' In 1905, John O'Leary had newly arrived in San Francisco. Looking for work, he had answe...






  • Back in the 60s and 70s writer Richard A. Lupoff knew his SF. He knew it so well he put out two books called WHAT IF? each consisting of stories that were eligible for Hugo awards and in his opinion should have won. He had a third volume in this fasc...



  • America, June 1940. Nick Train has given up his dreams of a boxing championship after a brief and unsuccessful career in the ring. When one of his pals takes the examination for the police academy, Nick decides to join him. But what started out as a ...



  • The author of "The Comic Book Killer" offers up twelve tales of mystery, magic, and grouchiness -- served with a liberal dash of sarcasm and cynicism. A woman’s birthday celebration becomes a prelude to murder; an absinthe-minded author seeks ins...



  • GENOCIDE - IN THE NAME OF LOVEAcross the planet, only a handful of giant, overcrowded, doomed cities exist - cities like Norcal, where multiple marriages are recommended and drug-taking is encouraged.Across the planet, everyone waits for the reclamat...



  • Lost and unconscious in the Antarctic, chopper pilot Robert Parker awoke from a frozen sleep one million centuries later, in a tropical forest, where butterflies gave the kiss of death and men fought with broadsword and javelin....



  • New Alabama. A planet that's a fair reproduction of long-lost Dixie, filled with down-home, racist rednecks. The N'Alabamians have carried their tribal prejudices to the farthest reached of the galaxy, like the other minorities expelled from the Eart...



  • When the Chester A. Arthur, the world's first and only coal/steam/paddlewheel-propelled spaceship rose into the skies over Buffalo Falls, Pa., who would have expected what followed?Will Professor Thintwhistle and his crew be able to return to earth? ...



  • When unworldly fantasist H.P. Lovecraft was approached by crafty fanatic George Sylvester Viereck to write an American Mein Kampf, the bait was almost irresistible.If Lovecraft would lend his pen and his Anglo-Saxon stock to the fascist cause, Vierec...



  • Stranded on a strange planet with a race of alien vampires!Red O'Reilly, the hero, is among three prisoners being transported by car with a guard and a social worker on a rainy night in contemporary California. Suddenly, in a flash, the car is off th...



  • Is Buddy Satvan the creator of the cartoon superhero Diamond Sutro? Or is Sutro the creator of Buddy Satvan, the mightiest crusader in the universe? Are these two men, or six? Are they real, or figments of someone's imagination? A challenging journey...






  • Before 12:01 and After is a collection of science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror stories by Richard A. Lupoff, collecting the best of his short fiction from his long writing career. It contains the following stories:"Mr. Greene and the Monster"...



  • The return of a classic 'shared world' fantasy series created by Philip Jose Farmer, award-winning author of the RIVERWORLD saga. Plunging into a vast prison that spans a planet, Clive Foliott faces a fantastic world of dwarves, cyborgs and aliens un...



  • Philip Jose Farmer, bestselling author of Riverworld, introduces the climatic volume of fantastic adventure within the confines of THE DUNGEON Escape-and victory? Fleeing from the mysterious creators of the Dungeon, Clive Folliot breaks through to...



  • A youthful journalist seeks to unravel the mysterious disaster that struck a New England town nearly a century ago... A young couple, stranded by a monstrous storm, seek shelter in a darkened town and discover a dangerous cult... A peculiar child is ...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard A. Lupoff has published 54 books.

Richard A. Lupoff does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Ancient Evil Returns, was published in September 2018.

The first book by Richard A. Lupoff, Buck Rogers in the Twenty-Fifth Century, was published in November 1978.

Yes. Richard A. Lupoff has 2 series.