rik@uf-csg.UUCP (Rik Faith [guest]) (11/04/84)
<munch munch> <> Several years ago I read a short story by that title (Carcinoma Angels) about a guy who got cancer and cured himself by taking a weird concoction of drugs. I don't know who it's by or in what anthology it appears. If anybody out there knows who wrote this story, or where I can find a copy, please send mail. Thanks in advance. -- Rik Faith, student at the University of Florida, Gainesville UUCP: ..!akgua!uf-csv!uf-csg!rik [Is not life a hundred times to short for us to bore ourselves? -F.N.]
herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong, Computing Services) (11/05/84)
I think that it was in Dangerous Visions, or was it Again, Dangerous Visions,
edited by Harlan Ellison. I could be wrong, since I don't have all my books
with me at school.
Herb Chong...
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BITNET: herbie at watdcs,herbie at watdcsursk@stat-l (Rich Kulawiec (Vombatus Hirsutus)) (11/06/84)
It's in "Dangerous Visions", edited by Harlan Ellison.
It's a great tongue-in-cheek short about Harrison Wintergreen,
who found that the world was his oyster when he looked at it sideways.
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Rik Faith writes: >Several years ago I read a short story by that title (Carcinoma Angels) about >a guy who got cancer and cured himself by taking a weird concoction of >drugs. I don't know who it's by or in what anthology it appears. If anybody >out there knows who wrote this story, or where I can find a copy, please >send mail. Thanks in advance. The story was written by Norman Spinrad. He's also the author of THe Iron Dream, which says on the cover that it was written by Adolph Hitler. (to be explained) And he wrote at least one episode of Star Trek. Several years ago, Norman Spinrad came to speak to a science fiction class that I was taking. After the class, several of us went to the Union to have a beer with him. Someone asked him why there were motorcycle riders in many of his stories (including Carcinoma Angles and the Iron Dream) He said that he had spent a lot of time with some motorcycle gangs in California. He had some friends in the gangs, and they would sometimes show up at his house and invite him somewhere. He didn't dare offend them and not go, so he would sometimes disappear with them for several days. About THe Iron Dream: According to the cover, it was written by Adolph Hitler. In the introduction, Spinrad says that Hitler 'dabbled in radical politics' in Germany, got frustrated, and moved to the U. S. in the early 30's, and began to write science fiction, including THe Iron Dream. Spinrad told us that he wrote the book by immersing (sp?) himself in everything Hitler had written, and everything written about him. (Including a 600 page book titled 'Hitler's Dinner conversations') He finished the book just in time for Mardi Gras, and got Hitler out of his system by going to New Orleans and partying for several days. I still have my copy of THe Iron Dream, which he autographed 'adolph Hitler'. Sue Brunkow U Wisconsin - MACC ...{allegra,seismo,ihnp4}!uwvax!uwmacc!consult (please put my name on any mail, I share this login.)
markv@dartvax.UUCP (Mark Vita) (11/16/84)
> The story was written by Norman Spinrad. He's also the author of > THe Iron Dream, which says on the cover that it was written by > Adolph Hitler. (to be explained) And he wrote at least one episode > of Star Trek. Yes, the Star Trek episode he wrote was "The Doomsday Machine". -- Mark Vita Dartmouth College USENET: {decvax,cornell,linus,astrovax}!dartvax!markv ARPA: markv%dartmouth@csnet-relay CSNET: markv@dartmouth
lum@osu-eddie.UUCP (Lum Johnson) (06/18/85)
"Carcinoma Angels", by Norman Spinrad, was first published in the original "Dangerous Visions" anthology edited by Harlan Ellison. DV, c 1967, and Judith Merril's anthology "England Swings SF", c 1968, define the "new wave" in sf, later known as "speculative fiction". Lum Johnson ..!cbosgd!osu-eddie!lum or lum@osu-eddie.uucp
jpa144@cit-vax (06/19/85)
From: jpa144@cit-vax (Jens Peter Alfke) From Doug Alan: > For some reason the title "Carcinoma Angel" has been floating around > in my head ... I'm sure it's the title for an SF story I read ... It is indeed! It's the last story in "Dangerous Visions" (*edited* by Harlan Ellison, and one of the best SF anthologies ever, for those who haven't read it...). The story itself is by Norman Spinrad, and is about a man, successful at all endeavours, who contracts cancer and decides to cure it by force of will, through decidedly unorthodox means. The "Carcinoma Angels" are manifestations of his cancer cells as motorcycle-gang members (I *said* his means were unorthodox!). Read the story. Hell, read the whole book! And then read "Again, Dangerous Visions", too! (When will "The Last ..." be out? I heard it would be soon.) --Peter Alfke [jpa144@cit-vax] "Bibliography Is Just A Goddam Hobby" (PS: I'm soon to be alfke.pasa@xerox)
jo@SCRC-VALLECITO.ARPA (06/19/85)
From: Jonathan Ostrowsky <jo@SCRC-STONY-BROOK.ARPA>
From #221:
From: mtgzz!leeper@topaz.arpa (m.r.leeper)
Subject: Re: Carcinoma Angel
Date: 24 Jun 85 07:16:38 GMT
Wow, a message from the future!
>For some reason the title "Carcinoma Angel" has been floating
>around in my head. I think it would make a good name for a rock
>group or something. In any case, I'm sure it's the title for an SF
>story I read, but I can't remember where or what it is about. I
>think it might have been by Harlan Ellison. Is this right? Does
>anyone know what it is about?
Let me be the first of the 139 people who are going to answer this
one. "The Carcinoma Angels" is a story by Norman Spinrad from his
collection LAST HURRAH OF THE GOLDEN HORDE. It contains images of
cancer cells riding through the characters body like motercycle
riders.
Mark Leeper
...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper
Gee, can I be the first of the next 139 people to answer this one?
"Carcinoma Angels" originally appeared in Harlan Ellison's "Dangerous
Visions" anthology. It's a very funny story about a fabulously wealthy
guy (named Harrison Wintergreen, I think) who sets out to beat death (in
the form of cancer). Recommended.