First edition of Far From Home by Walter Tevis, a collection of science fiction by the author of The Hustler and The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Written by Walter Tevis. Stated first edition, 1981. Doubleday & Company.
Walter Tevis (1928 - 1984) was an American writer, remembered best for The Hustler, The Color of Money, and The Man Who Fell To Earth.
From the flap:
"Walter Tevis uses his mind here like a lens to split the cosmos into universes. ... This compilation of speculative fiction and fantasy stories by the best-selling author of The Man Who Fell To Earth and Mockingbird comprises both reprints and original fiction. ... The result is a heady concoction of illuminating and frightening tales that propel the reader through unexplored corridors of the mind, beyond the earth's future, and into the distant corners of the Tevis universe."
CONTENTS
Part I: Close To Home
1. Rent Control
2. A Visit From Mother
3. Daddy
4. The Apotheosis of Myra
5. Out of Luck
6. Echo
7. Sitting in Limbo
Part II: Far From Home
8. The Other End of the Line
9. The Big Bounce
10. The Goldbrick
11. The Ifth of Oofth
12. The Scholar's Disciple
13. Far From Home
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