I first read Falling Angel in 1983. Right after the KEW list was published in the old Twilight Zone magazine. Naturally, I went to the public library in search of the books on the list. Wagner being the obscure literature fan, I didn’t find too much. The exception was Falling Angel, which I took ...
- Boy, I will not have you reading pornography in my classroom. Is that understood?- But sir -- Is that understood?- But, sir, it's not pornography. It's not. It really isn't!- I am interested to hear, boy, that accounts of underage girls having sexual intercourse with dogs are not -- But sir. Si...
So wrote Harry Crews in 1971 in his review of Gray Matters for the New York Times Book Review. Of course, it helped that he went on to say the novel “turns out to be not SciFi, but an engrossing fiction informed by an imaginative use of science.” Still, Crews had a point to make. Writers of serio...
Even in those carefree, long-gone, strong-dollar days, the grant money wasn’t sufficient for a family of three to afford Palo Alto rents. The countercultural revolution was global in aspect: Diggers in San Francisco, Provos in Amsterdam. We were curious to investigate the ...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sat on a striped divan in the front room of his hotel suite, listening to the slow clop of hooves outside as ice wagons and milk delivery vans made their early morning rounds. Night’s dark winding sheet shrouded the still-sleeping city in shadows. Faint as the promise of an...