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Odd Corners: The Slip-Stream World of William Hjortsberg
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 set about to create a post-holocaust fic...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
March 30th 2004
by Counterpoint
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I don't generally like science fiction, but I was feeling too anxious to read Information Anxiety 2 and read this. I read the whole thing, which is saying a lot since I usually drift away mid-book for these kinds of things. I found the bus stop to be the best place to read it, lending enough background noise to help me suppress any nagging plot criticisms that always accompany science fiction plots.
This was a pretty good sci-fi read. Dystopias and everything. Consists of two short stories and one longer story (the longer one is probably the best of the three).
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