Waiting for the Galactic Bus

✍ Scribed by Parke Godwin

• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 146
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Imagine two brothers off on an intergalatic Spring Break. When their friends leave them behind on Earth, they've got a few millenia to kill before they'll manage to get back to school. So, as an experiment, mind you, they decide to give evolution a bit of a nudge... And that's when all hell breaks loose... a little more literally than either of them planned...

✦ Table of Contents

Intro Blurb......Page 1
Cover......Page 2
Dedication......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
1
This was a real nice
clambake . . .......Page 5
2—Killing time: genius ad lib......Page 9
3—The serpent’s gift......Page 12
4—Topside/Below Stairs......Page 15
5—Management problems
among the mad......Page 19
6—Slouching toward Plattsville......Page 22
7—A conspiracy of princes......Page 27
8—The hero is the one who just
wants to finish his drink
and go home......Page 32
9—H hour minus one......Page 36
10—The woman taken in adultery,
and other set pieces......Page 40
11—One man’s media . . .......Page 43
12—Prometheus in Dolby......Page 45
13—Yonder lies the castle
of my father......Page 48
14—Enter Nemesis, pursuing......Page 50
15—Aryans in the fast lane......Page 53
16—Problems of the whore/
madonna syndrome (Aryans at
half-mast)......Page 58
17—Faith, hope and Charity
Stovall......Page 63
18 -This can’t be hell, the
plumbing works......Page 67
19—Money can’t buy happiness,
but why not be miserable in
comfort?......Page 72
20—The late, late show......Page 75
21—Doing the Reichstag rag......Page 79
22—The rewards of faith and
their avoidance......Page 82
23—The clear vistas of paranoia......Page 84
24—Romanticism as theology: Is
there hope for the
spiritual drunk?......Page 88
25—Meanwhile, back at reality . . .......Page 90
26—A rescue! A rescue!......Page 93
27—Judas with strings......Page 100
28—Everyone comes to the Banal......Page 102
29—The treadmills of your mind......Page 105
30—Barion explains; it doesn’t help......Page 109
31—Roy Stride and the First Amendment......Page 114
32—Blossoms and thorns of
the media culture......Page 120
33—All this significance—what
does it mean?......Page 124
34—The catsup factor......Page 129
35—The higher education of Roy Stride......Page 132
36—Perks for the upwardly mobile......Page 134
37—Doom at the top......Page 139
38—The new, the terrible and the
maybes......Page 142
39—Back to the drawing board . . .......Page 144
About the Author......Page 146