James Nicoll's review of Devil or Angel
The indefatigable James Nicoll has reviewed Devil or Angel and Other Stories in his usual comprehensive way, with a summation and a pertinent comment on each story. And this general recommendation: "You generally cannot go wrong picking up Hughes’s books and this is no exception."
He confirms my hope that knowledgeable readers will recognize these sixteen non-Archonate (except one) pieces as stories that might have appeared in Galaxy or Astounding fifty years ago.
And he delights me by saying one of my stories might have been penned by William Tenn or Fredric Brown.
I acknowledge an old debt to James because I believe that, as a winnowing first reader for the Science Fiction Book Club, he would have been the one to recommend my first Archonate novel, Fools Errant, to Andy Wheeler, the club's editor. The novel and its sequel were reprinted as an SFBC omnibus, Gullible's Travels and gave me to believe that I was well launched on an sf writer's career.
He confirms my hope that knowledgeable readers will recognize these sixteen non-Archonate (except one) pieces as stories that might have appeared in Galaxy or Astounding fifty years ago.
And he delights me by saying one of my stories might have been penned by William Tenn or Fredric Brown.
I acknowledge an old debt to James because I believe that, as a winnowing first reader for the Science Fiction Book Club, he would have been the one to recommend my first Archonate novel, Fools Errant, to Andy Wheeler, the club's editor. The novel and its sequel were reprinted as an SFBC omnibus, Gullible's Travels and gave me to believe that I was well launched on an sf writer's career.
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