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Sam Space #3
Space Tales
Hang on to your hats for a roller-coaster ride around our solar system with one of fiction’s wildest characters, William F. Nolan’s futuristic private eye, Sam Space. He works out of a seedy office on Mars, replete with a plug-in secretary, argues over his drinking with a grumpy hovercar, is hired by a body-switching eccentric and a three-headed female from Venus, battles a fire dragon, pops in and out of alternate universes, has his head on backwards (part of the time), is captured by mice, gets trapped by a witch in a candy forest, is reduced to a quavery old man and a squalling infant, beds a lush beauty with winking nipples, views his own corpse, chases a robot’s testicle, lays a freckled egg, and is fatally shot. Among other things.
“Nolan is a force of nature you cannot resist and his work makes a permanent dent in our memories.” -- Ray Bradbury
“An expert in the art and science of entertainment.” -- Stephen King
“One of our best storytellers. Nolan is a hell of a writer!” -- Peter Straub
“I envy Nolan’s successful productivity; also the incredible spectrum of his work: fantasy, science fiction, mystery, horror-suspense … Nolan is a fine writer.” – Richard Matheson
“His fiction is wonderfully wild, fascinating, beautifully written.” -- Rod Serling
“It is my conviction that in the century to come, Nolan will continue to surprise, divert and captivate his admiring readers.” -- Robert Bloch
“Nolan is a force of nature you cannot resist and his work makes a permanent dent in our memories.” -- Ray Bradbury
“An expert in the art and science of entertainment.” -- Stephen King
“One of our best storytellers. Nolan is a hell of a writer!” -- Peter Straub
“I envy Nolan’s successful productivity; also the incredible spectrum of his work: fantasy, science fiction, mystery, horror-suspense … Nolan is a fine writer.” – Richard Matheson
“His fiction is wonderfully wild, fascinating, beautifully written.” -- Rod Serling
“It is my conviction that in the century to come, Nolan will continue to surprise, divert and captivate his admiring readers.” -- Robert Bloch
60 pages, Paperback
First published October 23, 2010
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About the author
William F. Nolan
372 books241 followersWilliam F. Nolan is best known as the co-author (with George Clayton Johnson) of Logan's Run -- a science fiction novel that went on to become a movie, a television series and is about to become a movie again -- and as single author of its sequels. His short stories have been selected for scores of anthologies and textbooks and he is twice winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Special Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
Nolan was born in 1928 in Kansas City Missouri. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute and worked as an artist for Hallmark Cards. He moved to California in the late 1940s and studied at San Diego State College. He began concentrating on writing rather than art and, in 1952, was introduced by fellow Missouri native (and established writer) Ray Bradbury to another young up-and-coming author, Charles Beaumont. Moving to the Los Angeles area in 1953, Nolan became along with Bradbury, Beaumont, and Richard Matheson part of the "inner core" of the soon-to-be highly influential "Southern California Group" of writers. By 1956 Nolan was a full-time writer. Since 1951 he has sold more than 1500 stories, articles, books, and other works.
Although Nolan wrote roughly 2000 pieces, to include biographies, short stories, poetry, and novels, Logan’s Run retains its hold on the public consciousness as a political fable and dystopian warning. As Nolan has stated: “That I am known at all is still astonishing to me... "
He passed away at the age of 93 due to complications from an infection.
Nolan was born in 1928 in Kansas City Missouri. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute and worked as an artist for Hallmark Cards. He moved to California in the late 1940s and studied at San Diego State College. He began concentrating on writing rather than art and, in 1952, was introduced by fellow Missouri native (and established writer) Ray Bradbury to another young up-and-coming author, Charles Beaumont. Moving to the Los Angeles area in 1953, Nolan became along with Bradbury, Beaumont, and Richard Matheson part of the "inner core" of the soon-to-be highly influential "Southern California Group" of writers. By 1956 Nolan was a full-time writer. Since 1951 he has sold more than 1500 stories, articles, books, and other works.
Although Nolan wrote roughly 2000 pieces, to include biographies, short stories, poetry, and novels, Logan’s Run retains its hold on the public consciousness as a political fable and dystopian warning. As Nolan has stated: “That I am known at all is still astonishing to me... "
He passed away at the age of 93 due to complications from an infection.
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November 23, 2018
Difficult to read.
I thought the story was uninteresting and the characters fairly flat. I also struggled with the language of the "future". This is just not my type of book.
I thought the story was uninteresting and the characters fairly flat. I also struggled with the language of the "future". This is just not my type of book.
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