โ Scribed by Algis Budrys
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Collected here are five fantastic stories by Algis Budrys, Frank Herbert, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Jamie Wild.
The Stoker and the Stars
When you've had your ears pinned back in a bowknot, it's sometimes hard to remember that an intelligent people has no respect for a whipped enemy ... but does for a fairly beaten enemy.
Missing Link
The Romantics used to say that the eyes were the windows of the Soul. A good Alien Xenologist might not put it quite so poetically ... but he can, if he's sharp, read a lot in the look of an eye!
Bad Medicine
Elwood Caswell walked rapidly down Broadway with a loaded revolver hidden in his coat pocket. He didn't want to use the weapon, but feared he might anyhow. This was a justifiable assumption, for Caswell was a homicidal maniac.
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A follow-up to 2006's Single, Cassingle is a collection of stories that originally appeared in Fence, McSweeney's, Bridge: Stories & Ideas, and Twelve Stories. Toronto's Eye Weekly recently wrote of Cassingle, "No matter the cut, this is writing that speaks American, in all its complexity." Libr
A follow-up to 2006's Single, Cassingle is a collection of stories that originally appeared in Fence, McSweeney's, Bridge: Stories & Ideas, and Twelve Stories. Toronto's Eye Weekly wrote of Cassingle, "No matter the cut, this is writing that speaks American, in all its complexity."
**'They didn't see the house until they were practically on top of it. A single building emerging from the dark. It didn't look welcoming. But the front door was open. The door was wide open.'** Irongrove Lodge--a building with history; the very bricks and grounds imbued with the stories of those w