I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover, Isaac Asimov It’s not that others can’t find the plot to poach - they just can’t seem to get in!Ī fun if rather trivial piece. The Wizard of Whimsy offers up this tale of a Pawnee, who protects his 160-acre reparation grant with a mighty spell. This one feels like a lesser (though competent) tale from the early days of Galaxy.
He manages to eliminate one, frightening off the rest. If it only weren’t for the omnipresent, ever-irksome Bounders! Fed up with these meddling puffballs, Schroon calls for their extermination. Schroon, a rapacious hotelier with designs to bend the would-be paradise world of Cooltropic to his whim. I suspect I would have gotten more out of this story had I been more acquainted with the subject’s work. Wilde is at once successful and unsuccessful. When the great playwright/poet arrives in the hereafter, he is offered the chance to rearrange the events of his luminous life into a more pleasing order. Nevertheless, it’s a nice departure for the oft-brilliant author, notable for being told largely in dialogue (as befits a piece about play!) It’s rather short, so I’ll be surprised if it gets turned into a full-length story. Thus ensues the climax and rather satisfactory (though somewhat given away by the title) ending of this exciting novel. But Delgado, and the unusually assertive valet, Valentine, have other plans. They will leave the retreat on the morrow. Bolstering his sanity is the arrival of an unexpected ally: Heather, a member of the cast whose only purpose seems to be to sate the Lesbian tastes of another of the actresses, has also determined something odd is going on. He quickly realizes it’s all a set-up, and he heads to a local doctor to certify his utter sobriety.
When Douglas calls Delgado on his actions, he wakes up the next morning with a severe headache and surrounded by half empty bottles of gin… The country retreat at which they are staying is equipped with the oddest of surveillance equipment, from two-way TVs to mysterious tape recorders placed just under a sleeper’s pillows. The writer, Delgado, seems deadset on sabotaging the play before it can gel, setting each of the actors and production crew at each other’s throats. Kirk Douglas in Two Weeks in Another Town) has been increasingly unsettled by the goings on at his latest production. Murray Douglas, a washed out but on the wagon film star (viz. Last month, the author had left us on a tremendous cliffhanger.
The Productions of Time (Part 2 of 2), John Brunner The scientist does so, in the form that has occupied the efforts of sculptors since the Neolithic…with less than savory results.Ī decade ago, this minor bit of titillation would have been fodder for Venture. The resulting fruiting body proves warm, delicate, and eager to be carved. To wit, this month’s Fantasy and Science Fiction is quite a solid mag.Ī mycologist (a real fun-gi) with a yen for sculpture combines both vocation and avocation when the latest Gemini brings home a space spore. I hope you all will join us at Tricon to watch it!Īs exciting as the things to come might be, we still have plenty of exciting stuff to enjoy right now. However, all the fans are abuzz that they’ll be privately showing the show’s pilot at Tricon. The much-ballyhooed new science fiction anthology, Star Trek, debuts on September 15. We’re now just a couple of weeks out from Tricon, the Cleveland-hosted Worldcon! We’ll get to mingle with our fellow fen, meet our favorite authors, drink lots of bheer, and figure out who gets to go home with a rocketship in their luggage.
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