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Wayne "Sis-Kill" Manzo's Book Review:
The Osterman Weekend
Robert Ludlow
CESS-Agency, NYC, LA, and Bergen County, NJ
An interesting book that appears to be
developed solely to send various encrypted
messages about the CESS-Agency. The rest
of the story is not plausible, but there
are key phrases that expose considerable
if deciphered correctly.
Since I'm from Bergen County, the first
thing that I noticed was the name of
the town where all the action takes place.
The town is called "Saddle Valley",
and is considered a suburb of NYC.
Hmmmmmm? I'm aware of a very exclusive wealthy
town called Saddle River___in fact,
I believe Richard Nixon lived there or tried
to buy a house there before settling in
Park Ridge, NJ(please check my facts).
Another town in the book is called
Ridge Park? Hmmmmmmm? Park Ridge, Ridge Park?
I wonder!
Also, the author mentions Route 5 that runs
East and West towards and from GW(George Washington)
Bridge___when in fact it is Route 4 that
takes communters west from the GW Bridge through
Englewood, Teaneck, Paramus, and towards
Saddle River. Hmmmmmmm?
Again, it appears as if Ludlow threw the book
together in order to target people or a person
in Saddle River and the news media.
In doing so he also exposes the CESS-Agency
via keywords and phrases.
It is quite interesting that the over-all premise
of the book is quite non-believable but reminds
the reader of the book(movie) that starred
Michael Douglas and Shawn Penn___
the movie is called "The Game". And for those
who haven't figured it out___"The Game" is about
the CESS-Agency playing with outsider humans!
Now you know!
Also, for all you movie buffs, the movie was changed
considerably and hardly resembles that of the book.
Since the last time I watched the movie it was
shown to me by the Defendant Michael Romance
when I was staying at his Agoura Hills house
back in 1985(I should note that Deft Romance also
played the movie "Desparately Seeking Susan"-DSS,
Believe it or Not!
If any reader can provide an accurate psynopsis
of the movie version please contact me! I would
like to obtain a script of the movie also.
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Michal Keaton, Multiplicity 1996
Reminds me of the "Dupe" Supermodels
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The Duplicated Man
James Blish and Robert Lowdes
Arimont Publishing, Co, Inc
22 East 60th Street, NY
Booresy(59), Airmont(62?)
"CESS Alien Agency" and the technology utilized
to over-throw democracies.
First book I read that refers
to the CESS-Agency as "Security"
Reveals a machine that
makes near duplicates of people.
(This is not only one type of CESS-Agency
technology available for creating look-alikes;
"Face-Off" and "Deforming bone structure" are
others. The book also exposes the fact that
the near duplicates have the same thought
pattern and are connected(collective).
This book was stolen shortly after I
began reading it! Could be more revealing
than I thought.
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This is the internet reference I found on
Robert Lowndes
20. Juli 1999 - Autor: Florian Breitsameter
Robert A.W. Lowndes
(1916 - 1998)
Der SF-Autor, -Herausgeber und -Fan Robert Augustine Ward Lowndes
verstarb am 14. Juli im Alter von 81 Jahren im Village House and Nursing Center in Newport.
Robert A.W. Lowndes wurde am 4. September 1916 in Bridgeport, Conneticut geboren, er studierte am Stamford Community College und gehörte der Fan-Gemeinschaft "The Futurians" an (zu der u.a. auch Isaac Asimov,James Blish, C.M. Kornbluth, David Kyle, Frederik Pohl, Richard Wilson und Donald A. Wollheim gehörten), die durch fleißiges Fanzine machen und
ihre Bemühung ins Profilager zu stoßen auffiel.
So war es auch kein Wunder, daß seine erste veröffentlichte Story ("The Outpost at Altark", erschienen in Super Science, 1940) , eine Zusammenarbeit mit Donald A. Wollheim war. Später erschienen weitere
Zusammenarbeiten mit Mitgliedern der Futurians (oft unter Pseudonymen,u.a. als Laurence Woods oder John MacDougal), u.a. auch mit James Blish.
1940 arbeitete er als Herausgeber für Columbia Productions und 1941 übernahm er die Redaktion der beiden Magazine "Future Fiction" und "Science Fiction Quartely". Nach den Kriegsjahren und dem Ende des Papierknappheit übernahm er weitere Redaktion von teilweise kurzlebigen Magazinen (Dynamic Science Fiction 1952-54, Science Fiction Stories
1954-5, später The Original Science Fiction Stories 1955-1960, The Magazine of Horror 1963-70, Startling Mystery Stories 1966-70, Famous Science Fiction 1966-70, Weird Terror Tales 1969-70 und Bizarre Fantasy Tales 1970). Ab 1963 arbeitete er für Health Knowledge Inc.Außerdem war er von 1955 bis 1967 als Herausgeber der SF-Buchreihe von
Avalon Books zuständig.
Robert "Doc" Lowndes, wie er auch genannt wurde, schrieb nur wenig eigene Werke. Der Roman "The Duplicated Man" (1959, dt. "Der kopierte
Mann", Bastei Lübbe 1982, TB 21155) war eine Zusammenarbeit mit James Blish, und ist als reiner Abenteuerroman einzustufen. Es folgten noch
drei weitere Romane: "The Mystery of the Third Mine" (1953, ein Jugendroman), "The Puzzle Planet" (1961, dt. "Das Rätsel Carolus", Utopia Zukunft Heftreihe, Pabel-Verlag, 357) und "Believers' World"
(1959, dt. "Planet der Erleuchteten", Utopia Zukunft Heftreihe, Pabel-Verlag, 364. Seine bekanntesten und besten Kurzgeschichten sind "The Abyss" (1941) und "The Leapers" (1942 als Carol Grey; überarbeitete
Fassung 1968).
Robert A.W. Lowndes war u.a. auch Mitglied der Loge der Freimaurer in New York, der SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America) und der "The Scandalous Bohemians of New Jersey".
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/
vtsf/cs.v1.n1/008.html kann man frei
und kostenlos die Kurzgeschichte "The Martians are coming" von Robert"Doc" Lowdes lesen, die 1941 in COSMIC STORIES erschien.
Florian Breitsameter, Juli 1998
© Text: Florian Breitsameter
Quellen: Usenet; "Lexikon der Science Fiction Literatur", Heyne 1987; Grollier Science Fiction: The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 1995
Diese Seite gehört zu SF-Buch.de!
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Robert Lowndes' Obituary.
Lowndes: "Another Jersey Wiseguy"
The Newport (RI) Daily News, Thursday, July 16, 1998
Robert A. W. Lowndes
Newport--Robert A. W. Lowndes, 81 of 70 Harrison Ave., a nationally recognized author of science fiction stories, died Tuesday, July 14, 1998, at the Village House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Newport.
Born in Bridgeport, Conn., on Sept. 4, 1916, he was the son of the late Harry I. and Fannie
Stevens Lowndes. He moved to Newport in 1994 from Hoboken, NJ.Mr. Lowndes had worked as an editor in New York City for Gernsback Publishing Co., retiring
in 1992.
Mr. Lowndes attended Stamford Community College.
He was primarily a science fiction writer and editor, and had been the author of five science
fiction books. He was fourth on the list of Ten Most Prodigious Science Fiction Magazine
Editors and begun as one of the youngest editors of science fiction in 1940 with Columbia
Publications. He was then an editor for Avalon Books' Science Fiction Line, Sexology and Luz
Magazines, and for Gernsback Publications' Radio Electronics Magazines.
LUNACON and BOSKONE, both science fiction organizations, honored him in 1969 and in
1973, respectively.
Mr. Lowndes was a member of the Lodge of Masons in New York, the Science Fiction Writersof America, The Baker Street Irregulars, The Scandalous Bohemians of New Jersey and the Praed Street Irregulars. He also acted in local community theaters in Suffren, NY.
He was an avid reader with a great knowledge of history and a great knowledge of history and
great lover of classical music.
He leaves a stepson, Peter Rogalin of Glen Rock, NJ; a brother, Harry I. Lowndes Jr. of
Kansas City, MO; a sister, Ruth C. Lowndes of Middleton; and four grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held Sunday, July 19, at 2 pm in St. Paul's United Methodist Church,
12 Marlborough St. Donations may be made to Visiting Nurse Health Services, Hospice Program, 1984 East Main
Road, Portsmouth, RI 02871.Arrangements are by the Memorial Funeral Home, 375 Broadway.
(reproduced with the permission of the Newport Daily News)
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