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Invasion by Aaron Wolfe
INTRODUCTION
by Barry Malzberg
The world is a madhouse.

Death is real and final.

Somewhere between these two poles where the narrative of Aaron
Wolfe's novel occurs something else happens: it becomes a vision.

This is Aaron Wolfe's first novel. Thirty-four years old and successful in
another artistic field he has asked for compelling personal reasons that his
real identity not interfere with his fiction and therefore "Aaron Wolfe" is a
pseudonym. He is thirty-four years old, married with one child and lives in
the midwestern United States.

Aaron Wolfe's work has appeared in Escapade, Alfred Hitchcock's
Mystery Magazine and the Virginia Quarterly; fiction and poetry. He
was the recipient of a North American Review writing fellowship in 1965
and one of his stories published that year appeared on the Martha Foley
Roll of Honor of distinguished American short stories. INVASION,
nonetheless, is his first novel and his first work of science-fiction.

"I've always loved to read science-fiction," he says, confessing to owning
a "large collection" of old pulp magazines and anthologies, "and even have
a passion for it. I've been addicted since I was ten and when I sit down
with a science-fiction novel I'm like a child again. Who could react
otherwise to this marvelous stuff?"

INVASION gives some indication of what a literary writer of the first
rank can do when he essays fiction for a wider audience. It is simply one of
the most remarkable first novels, in any field, that I have ever read.

Other comments relevant to my role in the Laser Book series, how it
came about and what I take my own role to be may be found in my
introduction to K. W. Jeter's SEEKLIGHT, the first of this group of novels
published recently, and I refer the reader, gratefully, to that.
Barry Malzberg
New Jersey.

WEDNESDAY