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http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=2199 ^ | William M. Briggs

[mattstat]

Great News!

Buck Alice and the Actor Robot will soon appear as a radio drama. This is not to be missed!

Buck Alice and the Actor Robot

The Colonial Radio Theater will produce Walter Koenig’s—Chekov, from the original Star Trek—surreal novel as a radio play. (This had been announced before, but the production appears closer to reality.)

I hesitate to pick on Mr Koenig, because I have heard of his grief, but Buck Alice is, without doubt, the worst science fiction novel of all time. I mean it. Of All Time! I can prove it—and I have. I wrote a review of Koenig’s masterpiece several years ago, which can only be read by the bravest.

If you have any sense of humor, you, like me, cannot wait to hear the following dialog rendered:

‘Take off your clothes.’

‘No.’

‘Take off your clothes.’

‘You don’t have a neck.’

‘What?’

‘You don’t have a neck and you always carry that case and you speak funny.’

‘I don’t…’

‘I ain’t going to do it with somebody who does all those things.’

‘I have a neck.’...

[Oztrich Boy]

“It’s all in the delivery!”