THE LUNATICS OF TERRA

by John Sladek

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects eighteen short stories. The Brass Monkey and Calling All Gumdrops! depict behavioral and computer dystopias respectively. Ursa Minor is a teddy bear ghost story. Answers is a fine emerging AI story. Eighteen bright, tricky stories some of them very brief , all accompanied by amusing afterwords. Standouts include 'Guesting' 1982 , about an

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