World Menders (Daw UQ1015)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Lloyd Biggle

Science Fiction

"Humanity has stretched out over thousands and thousands of worlds. Each planet is virtually independent from one another. Various intelligent species have been discovered but humans start putting them in camps, killing them, refusing to grant them any rights, and branding them with derogatory names (for example, animaloids). This massive anti-animaloid furor spreading across the populated worlds threatens to envelope the tourist-trap planet Donev. However, Donev does not appear to have any indigenous animaloids of their own."

The Light That Never Was (UQ1052)

Literature & Fiction

Lloyd Biggie is not only a writer, but also a musician. In THE METALLIC MUSE he has included seven science fiction stories, written over several years, all of which in some way relate to the arts. Thoroughly entertaining and provocative, many of the stories explore the intricate relationship between life and art, and all of them contain very pertinent ideas about present and future experience. Superbly demonstrating their author's depth of insight to the human condition, they offer to all who read them an intriguing blend of accurate analysis and sometimes devastating speculation.

The Metallic Muse (UY1115)

The Grandfather Rastin Mysteries

Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (1923-2002) is famous as a science-fiction writer who not only used genuine science but whose books emphasized  human and cultural elements, including art and music.  (He earned a Ph.D. in Musicology.) His detective stories about Grandfather Rastin in the Midwestern town of  Borgville  show this emphasis on the human element, especially as it interacts with place and time. Bill Rastin detects crimes in a nostalgic, Norman-Rockwell world of cantankerous sheriffs, schoolmarms, and con-men from the Big City.  Rastin discovers how a human finger founds its way into a little girl s toybox.  In another episode, he investigates a thief who stole a broach, a Bunsen Burner, a slide rule, and $68 in cash.  And why does a visitor want to buy an apparently worthless violin  and its bow? The Grandfather Rastin Mysteries, the 23d in Crippen & Landru s series of  Lost Classics,  collects 12 stories originally published between 1957 and 1972, and it also includes 2 previously unpublished Grandfather Rastin cases. The cover painting is by Native American artist Barbara Mitchell.

Crippen & Landru, Publishers

Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (1923-2002) is famous as a science-fiction writer who not only used genuine science but whose books emphasized  human and cultural elements, including art and music.  (He earned a Ph.D. in Musicology.) His detective stories about Grandfather Rastin in the Midwestern town of  "Borgville"  show this emphasis on the human element, especially as it interacts with place and time. Bill Rastin detects crimes in a nostalgic, Norman-Rockwell world of cantankerous sheriffs, schoolmarms, and con-men from the Big City.  Rastin discovers how a human finger founds its way into a little girl s toybox.  In another episode, he investigates a thief who stole a broach, a Bunsen Burner, a slide rule, and $68 in cash.  And why does a visitor want to buy an apparently worthless violin -- and its bow? The Grandfather Rastin Mysteries, the 23d in Crippen & Landru s series of "Lost Classics," collects 12 stories originally published between 1957 and 1972, and it also includes 2 previously unpublished Grandfather Rastin cases. The cover painting is by Native American artist Barbara Mitchell.

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Books by Lloyd Biggle

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World Menders (Daw UQ1015)

The Light That Never Was (UQ1052)

The Metallic Muse (UY1115)

The Grandfather Rastin Mysteries

The Grandfather Rastin Mysteries