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TIME OUT, by David Ely. Weird stories for this secular age, among them a pirate cruise for tired businessmen and a desperate church organist's life-or-death struggle with a musical computer. Best Sellers...
TIME OUT, by David Ely. Weird stories for this secular age, among them a pirate cruise for tired businessmen and a desperate church organist's life-or-death struggle with a musical computer...
TIME OUT, by David Ely. Weird stories for this secular age, among them a pirate cruise for tired businessmen and a desperate church organist's life-or-death struggle with a musical computer...
...being destroyed represents a trauma unmatched in intensity since the alarums generated by Joe McCarthy in the Korean era. The issue has virtually anesthetized the controversy over Viet Nam. It has distorted debate over pressing urban problems. It has perverted the presidential election, the closest thing in this secular republic to a sacred collective...
...What he lacks is the final power to shake and shock the reader by suddenly opening a pit of darkness beneath him, or by fleetingly convincing him that things like werewolves do exist. Ely's style is too smoothly controlled for that, and perhaps the age is too secular...