In our first episode, Paperback Show host/producer Ricky Lee Grove introduces the Paperback Show Podcast. He shares the story of his first paperback purchase at the age of 12 years old. At a local used paperback shop, he picked up an Ace Double paperback which contained Philip E. High’s Reality Forbidden and A. Bertram Chandler’s Contraband in Otherspace. He reviews the two novels and outlines the history of Ace Books.

In the second half of the Paperback Show, Ricky Lee introduces author Lisa Morton, a multiple Stoker-award-winning author, and discusses her excellent paperback collection of Philip K. Dick’s books along with many other paperback-related topics.

Show Notes

• Philip E. High
• Ace Books overview
• Ace science fiction specials edited by Donald Wollheim and Terry Carr, a great place to start collecting paperback science fiction as many are still reasonably priced plus the often feature wonderful cover design by Leo and Diane Dillon. Many great authors were featured in this series (not double books). Authors like Ursula K. Leguin (Left Hand of Darkness), Alexi Panshin (Rite of Passage), PKD 17 paperback originals, Samuel R. Delaney’s Jewels of Aptor. Explain concept of PBO. William Burroughs Junkie and Asimov’s Foundation series (first two in abridged form). Conan appeared in Ace Double with Conan the Conqueror/Sword of Rhiannon by Leigh Brackett. Dune by Frank Herbert. Many Hugo and Nebula awards and nominations.
• List of Ace SF double titles
• Eight Miles Higher blog profile of Philip E. High
• Reality Forbidden backgrounder
• Jack Gaughan cover artist for Reality Forbidden
• A. Bertram Chandler Background. Contraband from Other Space (Ace, 1967) (Possibly linked to the 1945 story “Giant Killer“)
• Kelly Freas cover artist for Contraband…
• Philip K. Dick 
• Lisa Morton

Music: US Army Blues Band “Live at Blues Alley“. Available at Freemusicarchive.org