What if....



What if Springsteen had written a whole album, never recorded it, then died, then Ben Folds was asked by Patti to finish the songs, and record them, then he died and then the album got released?

Well, that's the equivalent of what you get in the sci-fi novel "Psychoshop". Alfred Bester [Stars My Destination & The Demolished Man... you like science fiction and you haven't read them? you fucking piece of trash.] wrote this novel in the early 80's, shelved it when he got sick and then died in '87. In the early 90's (after completing the Amber-verse) Roger Zelazny got the manuscript, finished it and then shelved it. After he died in '95, Random House reprinted all of Bester's work in trade paper editions, and published "Psychoshop" for the first time.

The book jacket says:
"In this genuinely mind-boggling novel, two of the most unfettered talents in speculative fiction envision a commercial establishment that attracts customers from Edgar Allan Poe to a sorcerer intent on fabricating the Beast of Revelations. Brimming with wit and imaginative bravado, scandalously sexy, and fabulously strange, Psychoshop is the first-ever collaboration between two winners of the Science Fiction & fantasy Writers of America Grandmaster Award."

I've been wanting this for a while, and I found a thrift store copy for $1.41, WOOOOOOO!!!!!
I'm going to start reading it after I finish my book about coffee.
- posted by Mason @ 11:58 PM