ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
“Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen”: First published in Chacal No. 1, Winter 1976.
“Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me”: First published in Nickelodeon No. 2, 1976.
“All about Strange Monsters of the Recent Past”: First published in Shayol 4 (Vol. 1, No. 4), 1980.
“Heirs of the Perisphere”: First published in Playboy, July 1985.
“Hoover’s Men”: First published in Omni, October 1988.
“French Scenes”: First published in Synergy II, ed. George Zebrowski, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (HBJ), 1988.
“The Passing of the Western”: First published in Razored Saddles, ed. Joe R. Lansdale and Pat LoBrutto, Dark Harvest, 1989.
“Fin de Cyclé”: First published in Night of the Cooters, Ursus/Zeising, 1990.
“The Effects of Alienation”: First published in Omni, October 1992.
“Occam’s Ducks”: First published in Omni, February 1995.
“Flatfeet!”: First published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 1996.
“Mr. Goober’s Show”: Previously published in Omni Online, March 1998; and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1998.
“A Summer Place, On the Beach, Beyond the Sea . . .” and “Major Spacer in the 21st Century!”, prefaces and introductions appear here for the first time and are therefore copyright © 2001 by Howard Waldrop.
Thanks and a tip of the iceberg to Andrew P. Hooper for help in the research for “Mr. Goober’s Show” and to Gordon Van Gelder for a better story title.