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Richard Fallon

Aug 4, 2026

16:12
And the way that Malone talks in the book is as a correspondent, I suppose.
16:17
He does various levels of kind of this trick.
16:20
So his, his ideal version of a novel was pretty much all trick.
16:24
So very little Conan Doyle, all kind of fake photographs, all this is by Malone.
16:29
So the British first edition keeps that up quite a lot, and there's like a deluxe version as well which has a few more images.
16:35
That's got the photos of him dressed as Challenger and other people dressed as the characters.
16:40
It has a couple of fake photos of a plateau.

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55:28
Mm
14:13
Where are people buying these? Are they buying them on the street? Are they coming in by mail? How do you get hold of your dinosaur stories?
14:19
I mean, the latest generation, I tend to think of pulps, pulp magazines being particularly big innovation.
14:24
So The Lost World and Strand, they're not pulps.
14:26
Pulp is like cheap crappy paper.
14:27
It flakes in your hands.
14:29
But The Strand is nice and glossy, and it looks like value for money, even though it's sold quite cheap.
14:33
But I mean, you could subscribe to them.
18:26
But at the same time, this... maybe there's more out there is not quite as weird as it might sound to modern ears.

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