I'd love to find the author of "Christina's Secret," it's a wild ride and definitely shows a lot of wit.
I got behind in my smut reading, with several writing projects under way; I'm currently reading "Christina's Hideaway," another likely by Charles Platt; I suspect that there are secret records in a vault under the Playboy mansion detailing the true identities of Blakely St. James.
Apparently SF author Robert Silverberg (one of my faves) wrote a ton of dirty books as "Don Elliott", a few of which are available where I found the Christina books, so the next time there's a sale I'll probably stock up on those as well. There's something almost innocently charming about the smut of a bygone era!
I like Silverberg's SF, but haven't read his dirty books yet. I probably will some day. But I have a sneaking suspicion that the era matters: that by the 70s it will be dirty enough to find arousing, but that stuff from the 50s & early 60s (which I think is when Silverberg wrote his?) will be too veiled and tame for the modern taste. Let me know if I'm wrong!
And it would be fun to get into Playboy's vaults (in more ways than one lol), but I wonder if that stuff still exists? Didn't playboy go bankrupt and get sold or something? I don't quite remember. But yeah, it curious, for sure.
It looks like his dirty book era was from 1959 to 1962; I recently read "The Seed of Earth," a regular SF title from 1962, that had a setup that was definitely out of the era's dirty book tropes, though the Don Elliott books on Golden Age Erotica look like they're contemporary rather than SF. I'm hoping there will be a sale around the time I finish my Christina collection so I can make that my next project.
It appears that Playboy is online only now, but it's trading publicly as "PLBY Group"; I imagine their vaults are wonderful/scary/disturbing in all sorts of ways ...
Well, I did a bit of googling, but couldn't find an author for Christina's Secret. The other one you reviewed, Song for Christina, however, seems to have been written by SF writer Charles Platt (source: https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?40899). This site lists a few more attributions (https://www.librarything.com/author/jamesblakelyst), and William Butterworth apparently wrote some (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1997/01/07/author-author-author-author/9337c9e3-77b9-4058-99f1-e8cd53e44949/) although they don't list which ones. Sadly doesn't seem to be the sort of info anyone keeps track of, not in a public way!
I'd love to find the author of "Christina's Secret," it's a wild ride and definitely shows a lot of wit.
I got behind in my smut reading, with several writing projects under way; I'm currently reading "Christina's Hideaway," another likely by Charles Platt; I suspect that there are secret records in a vault under the Playboy mansion detailing the true identities of Blakely St. James.
Apparently SF author Robert Silverberg (one of my faves) wrote a ton of dirty books as "Don Elliott", a few of which are available where I found the Christina books, so the next time there's a sale I'll probably stock up on those as well. There's something almost innocently charming about the smut of a bygone era!
I like Silverberg's SF, but haven't read his dirty books yet. I probably will some day. But I have a sneaking suspicion that the era matters: that by the 70s it will be dirty enough to find arousing, but that stuff from the 50s & early 60s (which I think is when Silverberg wrote his?) will be too veiled and tame for the modern taste. Let me know if I'm wrong!
And it would be fun to get into Playboy's vaults (in more ways than one lol), but I wonder if that stuff still exists? Didn't playboy go bankrupt and get sold or something? I don't quite remember. But yeah, it curious, for sure.
It looks like his dirty book era was from 1959 to 1962; I recently read "The Seed of Earth," a regular SF title from 1962, that had a setup that was definitely out of the era's dirty book tropes, though the Don Elliott books on Golden Age Erotica look like they're contemporary rather than SF. I'm hoping there will be a sale around the time I finish my Christina collection so I can make that my next project.
It appears that Playboy is online only now, but it's trading publicly as "PLBY Group"; I imagine their vaults are wonderful/scary/disturbing in all sorts of ways ...