CSvax:Pucc-H:ab3@pur-ee.UUCP (09/28/83)
Gene Stafford -- now you've opened the floodgates! DV, and ADV are probably the most-read books in my collection; and if Harlan Ellison ever produces TLDV, I'll sell my grandmother (if need be) to buy it... For those of you that don't know what the raving is about, some of the awards garnered by DV (just the first book) are: Samuel R. Delany "Aye, and Gomorrah" Nebula Award Fritz Leiber "Gonna Roll the Bones" Nebula and Hugo Awards Phillip Jose Farmer "Riders of the Purple Wage" Hugo Award Phillip K. Dick "Faith of Our Fathers" Hugo Runnerup Larry Niven "The Jigsaw Man" Hugo Runnerup Theodore Sturgeon "If All Men Were Brothers..." Nebula Runnerup Some of the other authors included in this anthology are: Poul Anderson, Damon Knight, Norman Spinrad, Brian W. Aldiss, Lester del Rey, Robert Bloch, Robert Silverberg, Frederik Pohl, Roger Zelazny, John Brunner, Keith Laumer, R.A. Lafferty, and J.G. Ballard. It's GOOD. As to the query about the story concerning the being hunted down by humans, with the final line... "But I am Man. Come!" ...it's "Evensong" by Lester del Rey. As to the query about favorites...Evensong is certainly one, along with "Riders..." -- which manages to be touching and bawdy simultaneously, and the pair "A Toy for Juliette" and "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World", both concerning Jack the Ripper and his exploits in the future...for those of you discussing organ banks, read "The Jigsaw Man"...and for post-holocaust folk (see net.movies), try "Shall the Dust Praise Thee?". One last favorite: "Carcinoma Angels", the story of Harrison Wintergreen, who stepped inside his own body to do battle with the Carcinoma Angels...can't say any more without spoiling it. Buy it. Steal it. GET it. Darth Wombat, about to return to reading "Sexual Implications of the Charge of the Light Brigade".
ariels@tekecs.UUCP (Ariel Shattan) (09/30/83)
And what about "The Last Dangerous Visions"? If you can find Patchin Review number 3 (I think, maybe number 2), read the article about how all the contributers to LDV are dying off. It seems that at least 4 of the contributors are dead, some are sick, and one hasn't been heard from for months (she's just disappeared!). The author of the article makes a case for Harlan Ellison waiting for them all to kick off before publishing LDV. Interesting. Also, in the vein of Patchin Review, tongue in cheek. However, that article caused the Dangerous Visions Bookstore in LA (?) to stop carrying Patchin Review. Just a bit of info, for those who don't get enough. Ariel Shattan decvax!tektronix!tekecs!ariels