Paingod and Other Delusions
No CoverEight intense speculative stories of passion, mutants, fire-wielding pyretics, and troubling truths from an acclaimed SF master.
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Eight intense speculative stories of passion, mutants, fire-wielding pyretics, and troubling truths from an acclaimed SF master.
Robert Heinlein says, 'This book is raw corn liquor - you should serve a whiskbroom with each shot so the customer can brush the sawdust off after he gets up from the floor.' Perhaps a mooring cable might also be added as necessary equipment for reading these eight wonderful stories: They not only knock you down...they raise you to the stars. Passion is the keynote as you encounter the Harlequin and his nemesis, the dreaded Tictockman, in one of the most reprinted and widely taught stories in th...
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No romantic or sexual content depicted
Pain as core theme; mutant body horror; dystopian lethal punishments
Mild period language; not a dominant element
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Cosmic Paingod figure; divine purpose and suffering themes
Psychic powers and will-based pyrokinesis in some stories
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Anti-authoritarian allegory; conformity, control, and othering
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Systemic exile, dehumanization, and institutionalized suffering
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