Monsters and Things
by Robert Silverberg
2023, PS Publishing
by Robert Silverberg
2023, PS Publishing
Before turning to respectable science fiction, Robert Silberberg cut his teeth writing monsters and aliens for magazines like Monster Parade and Super-Science Fiction. Many had the feel of sub-EC horror comics of the 50s. Some highlights:
An undertaker who brings his products to the next town where he's a butcher.
A spaceship lands on a planet where a ship had crashed a decades ago. A leaky reactor produced a generation of cannibalistic mutants.
After repelling endless waves of unstoppable giant monsters who just wanted to lay their eggs, the human survivors break open the giant eggs and stop on the embryos.
Solipsistic horror as a returning vet finds that most people aren't real.
Fun stuff, probably more my style than his classier stuff.
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