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The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown by Paul Malmont

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I’ve been a fan of Paul Malmont since the day I saw The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril in the bookstore. Any writer who told a story including the creators of Doc Savage and The Shadow and tell it in a pulp-like story deserves wider recognition. I enjoyed his second book, Jack London in Paradise, but not quite as much as the first book. So, when I heard that Malmont was writing a sequel to The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril about Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov fighting Nazis in WW-II, I started eagerly waiting for The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown. What’s amazing is that a lot of the story that Malmont tells in the book is true. So, let’s go into the unknown with some astounding, amazing folks.

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The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont

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The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont is a loving tribute to pulp fiction (not that Pulp Fiction) and the writers who created it. The book stars Lester Dent (aka Kenneth Robeson the creator/writer of Doc Savage), Walter Gibson (aka Maxwell Grant the creator/writer of The Shadow) and a young western writer whose writing speed has given him the nickname of The Flash, but is better known as L. Ron Hubbard. The story is an homage to the pulp mysteries these writers created as they investigate the death of a young and unsuccessful author H.P. Lovecraft.

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