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I shall add messages in a day or so, all being well. I shan't add your email address, unless you request it, as they can be 'lifted' by browsing programs which source addresses for spam messaging. If you wish your email address to be displayed - then it can be disguised by the insertion of spaces which can be removed by the user later. I'm told that this fools the little spider programs ! So I'm told. But it's at your own risk !
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link above - the Guestbook is for lighter comments and general interest points
that we or others might find interesting, for all such - use the link below.
Please do leave a message, and feel free to browse the old messages, when any have arrived . . . .
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The latest messages can be read here (new messages added at the top):
From: Patrick Baker
Posted: Sunday 13th May 2012
Dear John Allsup and Mike McGarry
Many thanks for your very interesting books web sites. Ah, nostalgia!
I first became a Pocomoto fan in 1954, and in recent years finally completed the collection begun at that time!
If you would like to use the attached cover compilation I would be delighted to share it with all who might be interested.
With Best Wishes
Patrick
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Many thanks for this, Patrick, and for letting others see books we haven't cast eyes on yet. Your help is appreciated in clearing up some anomalies and errors relating to books we haven't seen ourselves. Thanks again ! John and Mike.
I thought I would just send you a quick email to say how both my partner (male) and I (female) enjoyed the Kemlo books.
Or in my case, "book", as I never came across any other Kemlos except for the one I had bought for me at some point in my youth.
This was "Kemlo and the Star Men", and I still have it and still read it from time to time.
My partner apparently was luckier and got most of the Kemlo books out from his library in Leeds, but he never was lucky enough to own one!
Incidentally my Kemlo is the poor man's version, the paperback by Merlin.
It's a pity that Hamlyn only published that book and "Kemlo and the Space Lanes" as Merlin
paperbacks back in the late 1960s. With 23 to choose from there was surely scope.
Hi John
Found your website through the note in Acksherley!* and it got me quite goose-pimply – I didn’t think
anyone else in the world had even heard of Tas and the Postal Rocket, let alone read it!
(OK, I realise it’s probably Mike who’s read it, but you know what I mean!)
I was given a brand-new copy of the book for my 10th birthday, although by then it had been published for
two years. I was never able to find the second Tas book and wasn’t particularly interested in reading
the Kemlo series (don’t know why). My Postal Rocket copy is still good, despite it having its dustwrapper
laminated in clear sticky-backed plastic during the early seventies when, as a young primary teacher
(before I realised teaching was not all it was cracked up to be), I included it in my class library.
I even read it aloud to one class of ten-year-olds, who were delighted. (A regular book for years
in my read-aloud selection was Seven White Gates, but that, as they say, is another story!)
I have searched my considerable collection of children’s books but can find no other titles by Robert
Martin or any of his other pseudonyms. I shall, however, now be keeping my eyes open on the bookstalls!
Thanks for your website – I shall re-visit it, so keep up the good work, you and Mike. I keep promising
myself that one day I’ll get off my backside and join a Malcolm Saville Society Gathering. If this
amazing event ever happens (my wife thinks I’m slightly mad to even contemplate giving up precious
non-work time in this fashion!), we may get to meet up. Perhaps when I retire next year, who knows .....
Kind regards
Terry Chivers
* Acksherley! is the quarterly magazine of the Malcolm Saville Society.
Good morning,
Many thanks for your site; I see a Sheila had put some information on your site. Is it possible to thank her
for the Kemlo books written by Reginald, they gave me many years of pleasure as a child.
Thank you Sheila for your uncle`s work must admit have a lump in my throat writing this email.
Stephen Axford
Thank you Steve, - Sheila's emails were to another site and we've been unable to contact her - but I hope that she
may 'keep an eye open' and find this site and read your message. It reflects the continued enthusiasm for the books
that her aunt played a part in.
Lovely to hear from you - and to know that you have held on to the book and indeed still read it from time to time.
From: Terry Chivers
Posted: Sunday, 13th November 2011
From: Steve Axford
Posted: 30th October 2011
I am now 65 and still remember his books; I did manage to get one a couple of years ago but as I live
at three or four different addresses in the UK I am not sure where it is now.
The Kemlo series got me into Si Fi and still am a great fan.
Thanks again, John.