Wild Galaxy
Subtitle: Selected Science Fiction Stories
Publisher: Golden Gryphon Press
Published: April 28, 2005
Place of publication: Urbana, IL USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781930846319
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Science Fiction; Short stories; Science fiction, American; American Science Fiction And Fantasy; American Short Story Collections; Fiction; Fiction - Science Fiction; Science Fiction - Short Stories; Fiction / Science Fiction / Short Stories
Table of contents: title: Representing the best of a 50-year writing career, these 19 short stories have been collected from the wide-ranging oeuvre of William F. Nolan. Zany tales are included, such as "Toe to Tip, Tip to Toe, Pip-Pop as You Go", in which everyone is kept in perpetual drugged states and the social deviates are those who are straight. More serious stories are also told such as "The Small World of Lewis Stillman", in which the last surviving resident of Los Angeles must conceal himself in storm sewers in order to avoid a new wave of smaller city dwellers who, although primitive, are dangerous in their numbers. Interspersed are narratives that address the emotional attachments of robots to humans, mix science fiction with the classic Wild West, and allow alien rock stars and human groupies to intermingle.; title: Contents:; title: On the Run With Logan • essay by William F. Nolan;--; title: Freak • (2000);--; title: How Do I Know You're Real? • (2002);--; title: Starblood • (1972);--; title: The Joy of Living • (1954);--; title: The Grackel Question • (1978);--; title: The Small World of Lewis Stillman • (1957);--; title: Jenny Among the Zeebs • (1970);--; title: Happily Ever After • (1965);--; title: Toe to Tip, Tip to Toe, Pip-Pop as You Go • (1970);--; title: The Stuntman (variant of Death Double) • (1963);--; title: Kelly, Fredric Michael: 1928-1987 • (1973);--; title: Papa's Planet • (1968);--; title: And Miles to Go Before I Sleep • (1958);--; title: Violation • (1973);--; title: The Fasterfaster Affair • (1965);--; title: To Serve the Ship • (1963);--; title: The Day the Gorf Took Over (variant of Gorf! Gorf! Gorf!) • (1971);--; title: The Mating of Thirdburt • (1974);--; title: Lone Star Traveler • (1999).; title: Cover art by Eggleton.