Paul Malmont made RAH a charcter in his homage to the pulps, A Chinatown Death Cloud Peril: A Novel:
The death of H.P. Lovecraft, then a fringe writer, even for the pulps, serves as the hook for the mystery that draws Gibson and Dent into a web of intrigue that stretches from New York’s Upper West Side to the the northern steppes of Manchurian China. As one might expect from a novel that is itself a pulp adventure, facts, though they are laced throughout the work, never get in the way of the story. What we’re treated to as a result is a cornucopia of real-life characters playing against a conspiracy of super-villains. Orson Welles and Mao Tse Tung are among the cameo players here, though their roles are hardly pivotal. Robert Heinlein and Louis L’Amour are integral to the plot, however. The villains, at least the main ones, a Chinese warlord bent on revenge, and an American military man with no motive beyond greed, are drawn in detail convincingly realistic.
[tags]Robert Heinlein,Paul Mamont,pulps[tags]
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