A FEW LAST WORDS

by James Sallis ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 24, 1970

A collection of attractively allusive short stories with sepulchral overtones which lend a very distinct quality to the medium--generically science fiction--and it will be evident by the time you reach ""Occasions"" that Mr. Sallis is also a poet. For the most part, variations of entropy and death and destruction figure throughout. But there are many moods from the bleak everyday of ""Kim and Mary G"" who dispose of their child to the caged horror of ""Enclave"" to the imaginative kink of ""The Creation of Bennie Good."" Mr. Sallis is also an ironist and as one of his characters says, ""Give me always the Common Reader, the sensitive ignorance."" Probably they're above the Common Reader but they are uncommonly suggestive.

Pub Date: Sept. 24, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Macmillan

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1970

Categories: FICTION