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In the Pocket and Other S-F Stories / Gather in the Hall of the Planets
| Author: | K. M. O'Donnell |
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Ace Books, 1971 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
In the Pocket and Other S-F Stories
Malzberg's second collection, published under the J. K. O'Donnell pseudonym used for his early work.
Contents:
- In the Pocket - (1970)
- Gehenna - (1971)
- Ah, Fair Uranus - (1971)
- Notes Just Prior to the Fall - (1970)
- As Between Generations - (1970)
- The Falcon and the Falconeer - (1969)
- July 24, 1970 - (1969)
- Pacem Est - (1970) - with Kris Neville
- The New Rappacini - (1970)
- Bat - (1971)
- A Question of Slant - (1971)
- What Time Was That? - (1969)
- A Soulsong to the Sad, Silly, Soaring Sixties - (1971)
- Addendum - (1971)
- The Idea - (1971)
Gather in the Hall of the Planets
Science fiction writer Sanford Kvass has a problem. Three problems, actually. He's suffering from terrible writer's block and owes his agent a large sum of money. The last thing he needs is the approaching distraction of the World Science Fiction Convention, with it's obsessive fans, sex-mad SF groupies and professional writers and editors getting drunk and behaving badly. But we said 'three problems', didn't we? The best that can be said about Sanford Kvass' third problem is that it renders his first two irrelevant.
Kvass is approached by an alien (a genuine alien, not a cosplay one) who informs him that the human race is to be tested: an alien will appear at the World Science Fiction Convention, disguised as a human being, and unless Kvass can unmask it, the Earth will be destroyed. Under normal circumstances, this wouldn't present much of a challenge. All he'd have to do, is to observe as many people as he could and identify the one who clearly had no experience of normal social interaction. Voila! One unmasked alien. There's just one problem: this is Worldcon...
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