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The Golden Road

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This collection had a massive influence on me, I think, I still remember some of the stories vividly.

Jenny With Wings, the Truth About Pyecraft, Magic Inc., The White Company, and definitely Not Long Before the End.

Golden Road : Are You Too Late Or Was I Too Early - John Collier
Golden Road : Entire and Perfect Chrysolite - R. A. Lafferty
Golden Road : Jenny with Wings - Kate Wilhelm
Golden Road : The Truth About Pyecraft - H. G. Wells
Golden Road : The Words of Guru - C. M. Kornbluth
Golden Road : Postpaid to Paradise - Robert Arthur
Golden Road : The White People - Arthur Machen
Golden Road : Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven - Mark Twain
Golden Road : Will You Wait? - Alfred Bester
Golden Road : The King of the Cats - Stephen Vincent Benét
Golden Road : The Word of Unbinding - Ursula K. Le Guin
Golden Road : Magic Inc. - Robert A. Heinlein
Golden Road : Anything Box - Zenna Henderson
Golden Road : Artist Unknown - Heywood Broun
Golden Road : The Silence - Bernard McLaughlin
Golden Road : The Weeblies - Algis Budrys
Golden Road : Phantas - Oliver Onions
Golden Road : Not Long Before the End - Larry Niven


Ghosts quieter than mice.

2.5 out of 5


Ship sightings.

3.5 out of 5


A young woman goes to see a doctor about her condition. This is not an illness, but a condition that would let her fill in for The Angel in the X-Men if he had to take a holiday.

The doctor is not just that he seems, either.

4 out of 5


A man needs to get his physics straight when asking for supernatural dieting assistance.

4 out of 5


Planet busting phoneme.

3.5 out of 5


Mailed man.

4 out of 5


Be choosy with literature and statuary.

I think there are quite a few people that will find this rather on the dry side, as the two characters at the start discuss the psychology of evil, and then the story becomes a large passage from an imaginary book. This is quite lacking in paragraphs, so a bit of a pain to read in this book, electronic maybe better here.

3 out of 5


This was in a book I had as a kid that was quite influential. Still remember it vividly, so must be good! Slyly funny satire - angelic life is boring, and you can't talk to dead Germans or cavemen when you don't speak the same language!

4 out of 5


Supernatural lawyer customer service sucks.

3 out of 5


Tail conducting.

3.5 out of 5


Conflict success not much fun for anyone.

4 out of 5


Protection racket repulsing requires lobbying.

4.5 out of 5


Handy to have invisible tv stuff for boring school.

3 out of 5


Incarspiration.

2 out of 5


Watching those that will come, for a long, long time.

1.5 out of 5


Body snatching Tribbles, perhaps.

3.5 out of 5


What ship?

2 out of 5


Once upon a time a swordsman battled a sorcerer. As was fairly de rigeur, really.

To paraphrase Guru Bob, 'a good big barbarian with weapon will always beat a good little sorcerer when the magic goes away.'

4.5 out of 5