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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781593760212
ISBN number: 1593760213
Label: Shoemaker & Hoard
Manufacturer: Shoemaker & Hoard
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 256
Printing Date: March 30, 2004
Publishing house: Shoemaker & Hoard
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In 1971, when William Hjortsberg very 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 set about to create a post-holocaust fiction, (mis-termed, we think, “science” fiction), that anticipates the Virtual, the Punk, and the Meta. As readers it is thrilling to realize how perfectly timed this work is for our day, fresher even, somehow, than it was thirty years ago. Odd Corners collects Gray Matters and Symbiography together with two stories never before in book form. It is a complete cyberworld, courtesy of William Hjorstberg.
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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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When I was originally searching Amazon for new stuff from William Hjortsberg, I was surprised that his new book included Gray Matters--a shortish novel expanded from a story I read in Playboy around 1970 or so.
I've never forgotten the story.
I ordered it and burned through Odd Corners. Let's forget plot summaries. Let's forget trying explain or elaborate on Hjortsberg's stories. It'll be a hell of a lot more fun for you to dive in and be surprised. You'll love all of it.
If you like truly original fiction and a superior writer who honestly pushes the envelope, you can't miss with Odd Corners. And Gray Matters? It's going to stay with you. It stayed with me.
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