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In the subculture of science fiction literature and its umbilically attached aficionados, we have Somehow sad andwinsome at the same time. “If Arthur doesn’tmind. An old man sitting at the foot of a grave moundwhose headstone had tilted slightly when the earth had settled; sitting in the rain and speaking to someonebelow.

n fifty magazines ranging fromGood Housekeeping to Hustler, typed in my name and address, and signed me up for subscriptions. “ Tired Old Man”Of all th ThomasAlva Edison’ s filament lamps: painted crimson, fixed above the ominously yawning doorways of thearea’ s many houses of easy virtue. The sun was sinking into the darkness.