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Cooters , Ursus/Zeising, 1990.

тАЬThe Effects of AlienationтАЭ by Howard Waldrop. Copyright ┬й 1992 Omni Publications International Ltd.
FromOmni , October 1992.

тАЬOccamтАЩs DucksтАЭ by Howard Waldrop. Copyright ┬й 1995 Omni Publications International Ltd. From
Omni , February 1995.

тАЬFlatfeet!тАЭ by Howard Waldrop. Copyright ┬й 1996 by Howard Waldrop. FromIsaac AsimovтАЩs
Science Fiction Magazine , February 1996.

тАЬMr. GooberтАЩs ShowтАЭ by Howard Waldrop. Copyright ┬й 1998 by Omni Publications International Ltd.
FromOmni Online , March 1998, andThe Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , September
1998.

тАЬA Summer Place, On the Beach, Beyond the Sea . . .тАЭ and тАЬMajor Spacer in the 21st Century!тАЭ,
prefaces and introductions appear here for the first time and are therefore Copyright ┬й 2001 by Howard
Waldrop.

Thanks and a tip of the iceberg to Andrew P. Hooper for help in the research for тАЬMr. GooberтАЩs ShowтАЭ
and to Gordon Van Gelder for a better story title.




For Mr. Utley and Mr. Potter and the lady who knows what she wants

Preface
W hat you are about to read is a collection of all my stories about movies (dream factories) and
television (radio pictures) from my first four collections, plus an unpublished article and a new story.
ThereтАЩll be an introduction to each category. The movie partтАЩs divided intoDream Factories: The Past ,
stories about motion pictures from the beginning circa 1895 to one set in an alternate 1970s.Dream
Factories: The Future is a couple of my 1980s stabs at where films and (well . . .) famous characters
were going or could go. ThereтАЩs an Interlude for the new article; then we plunge together manfully
forward intoRadio Pictures , three stories dealing with television since before the beginning in the 1920s
to now. (Well, June 2000 anyway, one that didnтАЩt happen.)
ThereтАЩll be a new introduction to each story (I always do that, usually to give people whoтАЩve read all the
stories a reason to buy a collection of mine). My introductions usually deal with the actual writing,
Strange But True facts uncovered while researching them; you know, writer stuff. . . . ThereтАЩll be some of
that here; mostly the new intros will be about the stories as they fit into (or outside or alongside) the
history of motion pictures and television.

Why am I telling you this up front? First, IтАЩm an upfront kind of guy. Second, this is my first eBook (and
the far-seeing and astute Robert [Bob] Kruger at ElectricStory.com should be congratulated on his taste
[and his quick contract and check]). I donтАЩt own a computer, a telephone, or, up until a year ago, a
refrigerator; that being said, I do have a website (kind friends set it up) at
http://www.sff.net/people/waldrop (last time I looked, the bibliography hadnтАЩt been updated since
mid-тАЩ98, but any day now I hear . . .). This is also the first (mostly) retrospective collection of mine.
Stories here come from all four (Howard Who?, Doubleday 1986;All about Strange Monsters of the
Recent Past , Ursus 1987;Night of the Cooters , Ursus/Zeising 1991;Going Home Again , Eidolon