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Two men struggle for possession of a small boat alone on the
wasteland of the Sargasso Sea. High adventure!
The Winter 1989/1990 issue of Weird Tales showcases Featured Author
Brian Lumley (who contributed 3 stories and an interview) and
Featured Artist Vincent di Fate (who contributed all the artwork).
Also includes Keith Taylor, Phyllis Ann Karr, and more.
GENOCIDE by David Bischoff. The alien queen is dead, the hive mind
left to flounder...and on a world bereft of its leader two strains
of Alien divide their forces for world-shattering, acid-drenched
war. On Earth, in the wake of alien infestation, athletes are
flocking to humanity's Goodwill Games. But some come with a deadly
new tool: a drug called Fire, distilled from the very essence of
the Aliens' body chemistry.The military wants it. Pharmaceutical
kingpin Daniel Grant wants it. But the only place the essential
ingredient can be found is on that terrible world, convulsed by
Alien holocaust. ALIEN HARVEST by Robert Sheckley. Royal jelly, the
most illicit of Alien by-products, is keeping Dr Stan Myakovsky
alive. A once-famous scientist fallen on hard times, Stan is
fighting off the repo-men and trying hard to patent the cybernetic
ant that will reinstate his reputation. Julie Lish is beautiful,
mysterious, and totally amoral. She has a plan so outrageous that
there might be one chance in a million to pull it off.Together they
make an attempt to grab the ultimate treasure-royal jelly from an
Alien hive.
'The greatest entertainer ever produced by science fiction' J. G.
Ballard These surreal, elegantly witty tales from one of the most
esteemed writers of science fiction encompass indignant aliens,
stranded space explorers, shapeshifters, a company that
manufactures designer planets and a deadly hunting game in
far-future New York. 'Robert Sheckley is one of the great funny
writers' Douglas Adams 'A writer not quite like any other whose
forte is his own brand of strange and wonderful humour' The New
York Times 'Genuinely funny SF' Neil Gaiman
Robert Sheckley was science fiction's in-house reply to the
black humorists of the 1950s and 60s: Bruce Jay Friedman,
Terry Southern, and the young Thomas Pynchon were his
nonetoo-
distant relatives; Mort Sahl's comedy, Charles Schultz's
cartoons, and Tom Lehrer's songs all mined similar veins.
Sheckley targeted the conformity and consumerism of our
mid-century technotopia while it was still under
construction.
His new worlds, alternate universes, and future dystopias
have
only become more present with the passing years, even as his
career, played out both in the pulp magazines and in
front-line
venues like "Playboy "and "Omni," is a glimpse of a time
when
"science fiction writer" could be a kind of hipster
credential.
Mordant, absurdist, and deadpan, the best of Sheckley's
dissident
farces represent science fiction's high-water mark as an
allegorical clearinghouse for twenty-century angst.
'Hilarious SF satire. Douglas Adams said it was the only thing like
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, although written ten years
earlier. It's wonderful' Neil Gaiman This madcap cosmic farce
relates the adventures of the hapless human Carmody, as he attempts
to make his way home to Earth after winning the grand prize in the
Intergalactic Sweepstake, encountering parallel worlds, incompetent
bureaucrats and talking dinosaurs on the way. 'The greatest
entertainer ever produced by science fiction ... a feast of wit and
intelligence' J. G. Ballard
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