Rob chats with musician Erik Knear about his oeuvre, and about his late father, France writer Michael E. Knerr.

Some samples of Erik's work:

"Its All Adding Up": https://youtu.be/feaDaexlCPk?si=eSXVdxR-CX6AbqeN

"Pi (Between He4ven and 3arth)": https://youtu.be/Rftfl26n96E?si=0LJEnl9a2cQVDlyw

"Michael Knerr": https://youtu.be/zvNp99xNcAI?si=gKYzoS2NYIWkXQ4r

"What Was That You Said To Me": https://youtu.be/rcq5ERzWok8?si=U6ED4PW2fUO1iCyP

And just because Erik made me feel nostalgic and said the magic word, an anagram of abracadabra: https://youtu.be/wfqz9GnMyQ0?si=VXcgHt6HMhlsU0IP

Sin & Sci-fi in the 60s: The France Books Universe (née France Books' Paperback Writers) was a video podcast and nearly a book. It has hence spun off into Space-age Erotica: Epic Obscenity (and the more inclusive Sin & Sci-fi...), but all the videos are now back online.

Discover the fascinating characters surrounding International Publications, Inc., the publisher of sordid novels (and men's magazines) from 1962-1963 under the France Books banner. A publisher who would become a renowned biker, a fellow who would later have the audacity to claim he schtupped his pal James Dean, the man who co-created comic book heroine Black Widow, the most prolific Canadian writer ever, & a Who’s Who of science fiction writers all repped by editor/agent Forrest J Ackerman (the man who coined the shortened term “sci-fi”), and many, many others, including a writer whose earlier publisher was sued for libel in the amount of $750,000 by a former king of Egypt!

Join hosts Robo & Greg as they dig deep sixty years back to unearth the hidden past. They're both Ed Wood fans & won't let up 'til they find Wood in one of the "France 75".

RIP GREG JAVER

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