Odd Corners: The Slip-Stream World of William Hjortsberg

by William Hjortsberg

Book Overview

In 1971, when William Hjortsberg first published Gray Matters, reviewers mentioned Borges. And in 1972 came Symbiography, a novella about a man who dreams for a living. He is, in fact, a best-selling dreamer. Before "Mad Max" (1979) and Neuromancer (1984), back in the days when reality was either "real" or chemical, Hjortsberg sat about to create a post-holocaust fiction, (mis-termed, we think, "science" fiction), that anticipates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593760213
• ISBN13: 9781593760212
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Gray Matters (1979) is a minor SF classic....

I read this book solely because I was eager to read something else by the author of the classic "Falling Angel". The bulk of Odd Corners consist of the SF novel "Gray Matters" (1979), which is an expansion of a short story from 1970. Although out of print for the past few decades, the book holds up surprisingly well and ranks as a minor SF classic. In writing style and theme, I found it quite similar to the 1970s work of Robert Silverberg, which is high praise for those in the know. Definitely worth reading.