Far and Away: Eleven Fantasy and Science Fiction Stories
β Scribed by Anthony Boucher
- Publisher
- MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Integrated Media
- Year
- 2018;2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 233 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1504057384
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β¦ Synopsis
A supremely entertaining selection of speculative short fiction from the author of Rocket to the Morgue and "The Quest for Saint Aquin."
Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Awardβwinning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Awardβwinning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a particular fondness for the locked room mystery, Boucher created such iconic sleuths as Los Angeles PI Fergus O'Breen, amateur sleuth Sister Ursula, and alcoholic ex-cop Nick Noble.
In "The Anomaly of the Empty Man," a man seems to have vanished without ever exiting a room, leaving only his clothes behind. In "Balaam," a priest and a rabbi go to Mars. Near the desert town of Oasis in the terrifying "They Bite," you must be weary of what lurks in the corner of your eye. Private...
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