Blind voices: Science fiction

Reamy, Tom

Sidgwick /Jackson, Lon

"It was a time of pause, a time between planting and harvest when the air was heavy, humming with its own slow warm music." So begins an extraordinary fantasy of the rural Midwest by a winner of the John W. Campbell, Jr., Award for best young science fiction writer. One summer day in the 1920s, Haverstock's Traveling Curiosus and Wondershow rides into a small Midwestern town. Haverstock's show is a presentation of mysterious wonders: feats of magic, strange creatures, and frightening powers. Three teenage girls attend the opening performance that evening which, for each, promises love and threatens death. The three girls are drawn to the show and its performers-a lusty centaur, Angel the magical albino boy, the rowdy stage hands-but frightened by the enigmatic owner, Haverstock. The girls at first try to dismiss these marvels as trickery, but it becomes all too real, too vivid to be other than nightmare reality. Each feels the force of the show and its power to alter everyday lives: Francine is drawn embarrassingly to the centaur, Rose makes an assignation with one of the hands and gets in trouble, and Evelyn is fascinated by the pathetic, mysterious Angel, The Boy Who Can Fly, and together they plan escape. No stranger or more disturbing vision of the dark side of carnival life has been handled with such grace or conviction since Bradbury's vintage period. With a poet's mastery of language Reamy brings his circus of characters to a startling, fantastic conclusion. ABOUT THE AUTHOR TOM REAMY, at the time of his sudden death, was one of the most popular young writers in the Science Fiction field in recent years. His style is in the fantastic tradition of Richard Matheson and Ray Bradbury, and BLIND VOICES, his only novel, demands comparison to such masterpieces as Bradbury's Dandelion Wine or Something Wicked This Way Comes.

BLIND VOICES.

Berkley/Putnam

Blind Voices

BERKLEY

Science fiction tales include stories of the fight for survival after a nuclear war, bloodthirsty children attacking their teacher, and a middle-aged spinster assaulted by a huge monster

San Diego Lightfoot

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

"It was a time of pause, a time between planting and harvest when the air was heavy, humming with its own slow warm music." So begins an extraordinary fantasy of the rural Midwest by a winner of the John W. Campbell, Jr., Award for best young science fiction writer. One summer day in the 1920s, Haverstock's Traveling Curiosus and Wondershow rides into a small Midwestern town. Haverstock's show is a presentation of mysterious wonders: feats of magic, strange creatures, and frightening powers. Three teenage girls attend the opening performance that evening which, for each, promises love and threatens death. The three girls are drawn to the show and its performers-a lusty centaur, Angel the magical albino boy, the rowdy stage hands-but frightened by the enigmatic owner, Haverstock. The girls at first try to dismiss these marvels as trickery, but it becomes all too real, too vivid to be other than nightmare reality. Each feels the force of the show and its power to alter everyday lives: Francine is drawn embarrassingly to the centaur, Rose makes an assignation with one of the hands and gets in trouble, and Evelyn is fascinated by the pathetic, mysterious Angel, The Boy Who Can Fly, and together they plan escape. No stranger or more disturbing vision of the dark side of carnival life has been handled with such grace or conviction since Bradbury's vintage period. With a poet's mastery of language Reamy brings his circus of characters to a startling, fantastic conclusion. ABOUT THE AUTHOR TOM REAMY, at the time of his sudden death, was one of the most popular young writers in the Science Fiction field in recent years. His style is in the fantastic tradition of Richard Matheson and Ray Bradbury, and BLIND VOICES, his only novel, demands comparison to such masterpieces as Bradbury's Dandelion Wine or Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Wildside Pr

San Diego Lightfoot Sue and other stories

A thirteen year old girl unleashes a murderous nightmare on a small Kansas town.\nA Hollywood policeman sacrifices a strange and beautiful young man for his own dark needs but finds himself the victim.\nHorror comes to a sheltered mountain village - but from within, in the form of its own savage children who attack and devour in swarms.\nThe last people on Earth are mature at 5, bear children at 8, and are usually dead by 30.\nThese and other haunting visions come from the imagination of John W Campbell Award winner Tom Reamy. A transplanted Texan who lived in Kansas City (and later Independence, Missouri) before his premature death in November, 1977, Tom sent the science fiction and fantasy world reeling with such tales as "Twilla", "Under the Hollywood Sign", "Beyond the Cleft", "Dinosaurs", and the unforgettable Nebula Award-winning "San Diego Lightfoot Sue."\nHe was a writer with an extraordinary understanding of the dark things that walk in daytime as well as the light that shines despite deepening shadows. Whether he was writing about a young man's coming of age or life at the end of the world, he brought not only a sense of realism to his stories but a transcendent beauty and sensitivity. Within these pages you will find terror and love, desire and innocence, dreams and death, as only Tom Reamy could present them.

Earth Light Publishers

George R. R. Martin once wrote of Tom Reamy that he "brought to his first efforts such a store of talent, keen observation, and knowledge of humanity that he seemed to spring into being as a major writer full-bloom." For his sensitively rendered yet darkly gnawing fiction Reamy has been compared to Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Richard Matheson and Jack Finney. Gathered here for the first time is all of Reamy's professional short fiction, including two previously uncollected pieces: the story "M is for the Millions" and the screenplay "Sting!", as well as a previously unpublished novella. Reamy sold his first two stories, "Beyond the Cleft" and "Twilla," to Harry Harrison and Damon Knight respectively--on the same day in 1973. "San Diego Lightfoot Sue" earned Reamy the 1975 Nebula for Best Novelette, and, following more nominations, Reamy won the 1976 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Tragically, he died at the age of forty-two in late 1977; his posthumously published novel, Blind Voices, garnered further acclaim. George R. R. Martin noted that, along with John Varley, Reamy was one of "the two most important new writers of the Seventies," and this definitive retrospective of Reamy's supernova career showcases why. Ranging from the survivalist science fiction of "Dinosaurs" and "2076: Blue Eyes" to the undeniable horrors of the eponymous story and "The Detweiler Boy," these dark, consistently seductive tales by a mercurial fantasist easily shift from urban noir to rural romance, from private eyes to cosmic fears, from creature features to slice-of-life, from bittersweet realism to existential slipstream. Closing out the collection, in what we might irreverently call the pièce de réamysistance, is that long-awaited, never-before-published novella "Potiphee, Petey, and Me," penned more than 45 years ago and now exclusively available in this volume. Offbeat, disturbing and prescient, it conclusively brings to the fore why, no matter where we might be reading from, we're all living Under the Hollywood Sign.

Under the Hollywood Sign: The Collected Stories of Tom Reamy

United States

Subterranean Pr

One hot summer day Haverstock's Traveling Curiosus and Wonder Show rolls into a small Kansas town, bringing with it both magic and terror. 
When three teenage girls attend the carnival's first performance, they are awed by the monsters on display - a mermaid, a lusty Minotaur, a real-life Gorgon - and by the show's star attraction, Angel, a beautiful albino boy with wondrous powers. But behind it all is the sinister and enigmatic ringmaster, Haverstock. And soon the girls will find themselves drawn into his deadly world of freakish horror ... 
Tom Reamy's only novel, published posthumously in 1978, Blind Voices was nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and BFSA Awards and has gone on to become an underground classic of horror and dark fantasy. 
"How good is this book? It is breathtakingly good." - Harlan Ellison 
"Not since Bradbury has a fantasy author so captured the dark heart of midwestern America." - Gregory Benford 
"An atmosphere of horror amongst carnival surroundings comparable to that in Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes." - Pittsburgh Press 
"A marvelous and engrossing story ... a frantically accelerating plot which races inevitably to a ghastly climax." - South Bend Tribune

Valancourt Books

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Blind voices: Science fiction

BLIND VOICES.

Blind Voices

San Diego Lightfoot

Blind Voices

San Diego Lightfoot Sue and other stories

Under the Hollywood Sign: The Collected Stories of Tom Reamy

Blind Voices