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Paperback Odd Corners: The Slip-Stream World of William Hjortsberg Book

ISBN: 1593760213

ISBN13: 9781593760212

Odd Corners: The Slip-Stream World of William Hjortsberg

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In 1971, when William Hjortsberg first published Gray Matters, reviewers mentioned Borges. And in 1972 came Symbiography, a novella about a man who dreams for a living. He is, in fact, a best-selling dreamer. Before "Mad Max" (1979) and Neuromancer (1984), back in the days when reality was either "real" or chemical, Hjortsberg sat about to create a post-holocaust fiction, (mis-termed, we think, "science" fiction), that anticipates...

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Gray Matters (1979) is a minor SF classic....

I read this book solely because I was eager to read something else by the author of the classic "Falling Angel". The bulk of Odd Corners consist of the SF novel "Gray Matters" (1979), which is an expansion of a short story from 1970. Although out of print for the past few decades, the book holds up surprisingly well and ranks as a minor SF classic. In writing style and theme, I found it quite similar to the 1970s work of Robert Silverberg, which is high praise for those in the know. Definitely worth reading.
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