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Contents:
Sources (Ray Bradbury & Fritz Leiber)
Faster than the Speed of Bester: A Few Words of Introduction to One of the Most Fecund Writers the World Has Ever Spawned (Alfred Bester)
Introductory note to “The Howling Man” by Charles Beaumont
Concerning David Gerrold
On the Vanishment of an Old Friend, In Memoriam: Bill Rotsler
Fer Chrissakes, Schwartz, Get Outta My Face! (Julius Schwartz)
A Few Words of Tribute about Frank Herbert
Li’l Harlan and His Sidekick Carl the Comet in Danger Land (Carl Sagan)
Foreword to THE RETURN OF THE BLACK WIDOWERS by Isaac Asimov
Introduction to THE SHRINKING MAN by Richard Matheson
Van Is Here, But Van Is Gone (A. E. van Vogt)
The Monarch of the Best of All Possible Worlds: An Appreciation of J. Michael Straczynski
Introduction to THE SANDMAN: Seasons of Mist by Neil Gaiman
Introduction to FALLEN ANGEL by Peter David
She Was Estelle (Octavia E. Butler)
Introduction to CHEKOV’S ENTERPRISE by Walter Koenig
And Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, a Man Who Needs No Introduction… (Jack Williamson)
Peter David: Of Thee I Sing
Introduction to ELECTRIC DREAMS: The Art of Barclay Shaw
In Praise, in Awe, of Jack Vance
Philip José Farmer: Portrait of the Artist as the Great Wall of China
The Universe According to Laumer (Keith Laumer)
My Pal Datlow, the Big ‘D’ (Ellen Datlow)
The Final Adventure of Harlan in Avramland (Avram Davidson)
Anne McCaffrey: The Naked Truth; An Appreciation, Albeit an Exposé
The Eternal Curmudgeon: A Few Words Anent Michael Moorcock
The Dearest Lee Who Ever Lived (Lee Hoffman)
Grandmaster Robert Silverberg: A Revised, Updated, Expanded Appreciation, with Some of the Schmaltz Stains Still On It
Essays in bold have been added to the table of contents since the book was offered for pre-order in September 2018.
178 pages