Cosmic Kaleidoscope
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GoryDetails
of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 6/6/2017
This book is in a Controlled Release!
GoryDetails of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 6/6/2017 This book is in a Controlled Release!
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I got this fair-condition '70s paperback at a local Savers thrift shop. It's a fun SF anthology with some wild variations on the themes, including:
A man who goes into outer space to try and forget the woman who left him - only to stumble across a bizarre world that seems to involve an identical duplicate of... Mount Everest? Turns out there's a very good reason for that, and some really funny twists and turns in the story.
Then there's the man who desires the finer things in life, especially when they include delightful gadgets - sleek cigarette lighters, that kind of thing. [I thought "Brookstones!"] Anyway, he's also trying to reconnect with the woman who left him - hmmm, this seems to be a running theme - but finds he's more interested in where she's getting these marvelous toys. This plot heads off into a direction I really hadn't expected at all, and seems more applicable now than it did when first published.
The story about the psi detective (who has to keep telling his new client that it's pronounced "sigh", not "pissy") who stumbles across a previously-unknown da Vinci work: a variation of the "Mona Lisa" - and then finds that it's part of a very, very early moving picture.
Other stories include a Wild West shootout sequence combined with an alien-princess subplot; a mugger getting kidnapped by a plant-type alien with its own agenda; a tale told in frame-by-frame format, about a horror-comic fan who begins to realize that there's some kind of monster haunting his town; a tale of a world in which everyone has access to personal flying devices, leading to chaos in the skies; and more.
In general the tone is light - and even when things go badly for the characters it's more in the dark-humor or he-deserved-it vein. Fun collection.
A man who goes into outer space to try and forget the woman who left him - only to stumble across a bizarre world that seems to involve an identical duplicate of... Mount Everest? Turns out there's a very good reason for that, and some really funny twists and turns in the story.
Then there's the man who desires the finer things in life, especially when they include delightful gadgets - sleek cigarette lighters, that kind of thing. [I thought "Brookstones!"] Anyway, he's also trying to reconnect with the woman who left him - hmmm, this seems to be a running theme - but finds he's more interested in where she's getting these marvelous toys. This plot heads off into a direction I really hadn't expected at all, and seems more applicable now than it did when first published.
The story about the psi detective (who has to keep telling his new client that it's pronounced "sigh", not "pissy") who stumbles across a previously-unknown da Vinci work: a variation of the "Mona Lisa" - and then finds that it's part of a very, very early moving picture.
Other stories include a Wild West shootout sequence combined with an alien-princess subplot; a mugger getting kidnapped by a plant-type alien with its own agenda; a tale told in frame-by-frame format, about a horror-comic fan who begins to realize that there's some kind of monster haunting his town; a tale of a world in which everyone has access to personal flying devices, leading to chaos in the skies; and more.
In general the tone is light - and even when things go badly for the characters it's more in the dark-humor or he-deserved-it vein. Fun collection.
I'm adding this to the SF bookbox, which will be on its way to its next stop soon. Enjoy!
