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What if the post-apocalyptic world was inherited by the android avatars of a famous duck, mouse, and dog? What if every '50s Bugarama monster-movie nightmare came true at once? What if Cloudbuster pioneers had transformed the arid American Southwest into a subtropical paradise? What do you mean, what if? They're real, they're here, a life-giving downpour in a desert of mundanity, right from the cranium of Howard Waldrop, one of the best, most original writers in America. For the first time, the greater part of Howard's media-related tales are brought together in one place. TV, radio, movies¿they're all right here. Plus original essays by the author. Plus a never-before-published novelette: "Major Spacer in the 21st Century," about the triumph of McCarthyism over a space-opera serial, the subsequent death of democracy, and the country's eventual second shot at freedom. In this collection, Howard brings to life the kind of historical trivia nobody else can imagine. Oh sure, you can laud his insights into the technical and social development of our dream factories and radio pictures. But what will blow you away are his wacky ideas¿the way he brings together things that you'd never imagined on the same bookshelf, much less the same page of the same story. And yet, once he lays them out, you wonder why no one else thought to see it that way¿his quirkiness exposes the romance of it all better than any cinéma vérité ever could. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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A story is about the making of "race" pictures right after the First World War. These were short films intended for black audiences with simple stories, microscopic budgets and shooting schedules that lasted for a couple of days. Another tale is about a couple of Old West cowboys fighting vampires in 1920s Germany. What if every 1950s sci-fi monster (giant octopus, giant dinosaur and swarm of giant ants, etc.) all became real at the same time? Another story has Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello and a couple of the Marx Brothers all rushing to a small town in Iowa where a traveling rock and roll caravan is playing a one-night stand.
These are more "weird" stories than they are specifically science fiction, fantasy or horror stories. They are also really good and well-written stories. This book is different, it will get the reader thinking, and it is recommended. ( )