The Passage of the Light

PB: NESFA Press, June 1994, 281 pages

From the cover blurb:

This collection contains over 170,000 words of some of the funniest and most biting science fiction ever written -- science fiction stories that question the very values and dreams of the field.
"It was the stories that comprise this book that made Malzberg the center of controversy...even more than his award-winning Beyond Apollo." - Mike Resnick, in the introduction to this collection
"Malzberg is a true hero." - F & SF

"Barry Malzberg is one of science fiction's most literate and erudite writers." - Gerald Jonas, in the NY Times Book Review

"Barry Malzberg is one of the finest practitioners of science fiction today." - Harry Harrison

"There is no one, with the possible exception of Philip K. Dick, whose works, each one of them, are so unpredictable or so outrageous and outraged." - Theodore Sturgeon

"Barry Malzberg's dark, bleak vision of the future is one of the most terryfing ever to come out of science fiction." - Robert Silverberg

"Malzberg's prose [is] perhaps the finest in science fiction." - Boston Phoenix

Contents:

Introduction by Mike Resnick
Dwellers of the Deep
Gather in the Hall of Planets
July 24, 1970
Notes Toward a Useable Past
A Question of Slant
A Galaxy Called Rome
A Delightful Comedic Premise
January 1975
Prose Bowl (with Bill Pronzini)
Another Goddamed Showboat
Herovit's World
Corridors
The Passage of the Light
Afterword by Anthony R. Lewis

Review:

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