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Cover artist Ed Nuckolls Publication date 1972 OCLC 2780647 Publisher Doubleday | 3.9/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 228 Originally published 1972 Page count 228 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Short story, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Similar The Still - Small Voice of T, The Light that Never Was, The World Menders, Monument, The World That Death Made: A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Metallic Muse is a collection of science fiction stories by Lloyd Biggle, Jr., published in hardcover by Doubleday Books in 1972. It was reprinted in paperback by DAW Books in 1973.
Contents
Contents
"Orphan of the Void" was originally published as "The Man Who Wasn't Home."
Reception
Theodore Sturgeon noted that Biggle's stories "are usually constructed around an idea or solution withheld until the punchline. . . . a valid technique, except where the reader gets to the punchline first."
References
The Metallic Muse Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA