Cirsova Publishing to Reprint Nearly-Lost Julian Hawthorne Planetary Romance, The Cosmic Courtship
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Cirsova Publishing is proud to announce
that it has partnered with Michael Tierney and Robert Allen Lupton to restore
and reprint Julian Hawthorne’s The Cosmic Courtship,
a never-before-collected pulp Planetary Romance by the son of famed American
author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Mary Faust, a brilliant scientist, has developed a machine
that can allow the conscious human soul to explore the cosmos! Her promising
young assistant Miriam Mayne has accidentally transferred her consciousness Saturn,
where she falls under the enchantment of an evil sorcerer! Jack Paladin, her
love, sets out after her on a thrilling celestial journey to the ringed planet!
Swashbuckling adventure and high romance await in Julian Hawthorne’s The Cosmic
Courtship!
While most are at least somewhat familiar with Nathaniel
Hawthorne as one of the great American authors, less well known is that his son
Julian was an incredibly prolific writer in his own right. Julian published on
a wide variety of subjects, ranging from literary analysis of his father's
works to poetry to period romances and adventures. Late in his career, Julian
even dabbled in the emerging genre of Science Fiction.
The Cosmic Courtship was serialized in Frank A. Munsey's
All-Story Weekly across four issues, beginning with the November 24, 1917 issue
and running through the December 15, 1917 issue. While this story has been in
the public domain for some time, it has never been collected or published
elsewhere until now.
Cirsova Publishing has taken on this exciting project with
the aim to preserve this story for posterity and ensure that it is not lost to
future generations.
Michael Tierney is a pulp historian and archivist who has written extensively on Edgar Rice
Burroughs, having created the massive four volume Edgar Rice Burroughs 100 Year
Art Chronology, and is currently working on another Art Chronology about Robert
E. Howard. He has been involved in the comic book industry for 40 years, owning
two of the oldest comic book stores in Central Arkansas until switching to
mail-order only in 2020. He is also an accomplished science fiction writer and
artist, having worked on his Wild Stars saga since the 1970s. Michael not only
made his pulp library available for this project, he provided the photographic
images of these rare magazines so that a manuscript could be produced. He has
also lent his years of experience digitally restoring damaged pulp art to
restore the original cover by Fred W. Small to create a unique cover for this
edition.
Robert Allen Lupton is a
prolific author, pulp historian, and commercial hot air balloon pilot. He has
published nearly 200 short stories across numerous anthologies, including the
New York Times Best Selling Chicken Soup For the Soul series, and has published
several anthologies and novels. His most recent novel, "Dejanna of the
Double Star" was published in December 2020. Robert has been an active
Edgar Rice Burroughs historian, researcher, and writer since the 1970s,
including at ERBzine, where several of his articles
and stories are published. Robert has painstakingly recreated the text as it
was originally published from the digital images provided from Michael's
collection.
Cirsova Publishing has been publishing thrilling adventure
science fiction and fantasy since 2016. They have published nearly 20 issues of
their flagship publication, Cirsova Magazine. Additionally, they have published
a number of anthologies, a fully illustrated edition of Leigh Brackett's Planet
Stories-era Stark adventures, Jim Breyfogle's Mongoose and Meerkat, and the
35th Anniversary Editions of Michael Tierney's Wild Stars.
This collected edition of The Cosmic Courtship will be
released later in 2021.
Bravo, Cirsova!
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