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A Few Wild Beasts to be Dreaded
From good old Jonathan Swift having Gulliver put out the fire at the Lilliputian royal castle by urinating over it, to the many fantastic satirical sci-fi moments of Robert Sheckley, to the Grand Guignol naughtiness Anne Rice was sometimes known for, the ‘smushing’—for want of a better word—of genres in fantastic fiction has been going on for quite some time.
This mixing of the fantastic with the satirical, the sexy, and just the downright odd (or even all 3 in one story) is at the heart of this fiction collection, A Few Wild Beasts To Be Dreaded.
This mixing of the fantastic with the satirical, the sexy, and just the downright odd (or even all 3 in one story) is at the heart of this fiction collection, A Few Wild Beasts To Be Dreaded.
167 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 26, 2023
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May 14, 2023
Author Ralph Greco Jr. has a prolific and ever-vivid mind that jumps from place to place in this primarily sci-fi collection. He changes voices, story lengths, genres like he's impersonating a whole group of authors preparing an anthology.
Some stories are naughty, some clean. Some satire. Some worth pondering. There's even a horror story about a horny zombie. Some stories are a mere two-to-three pages, others longer. Robots. Aliens.
Greco isn't one to pen complex prose. His stories are meant to be fun, meant to provide a respite from the modern world, meant to make us look our problems and foibles in the face and laugh-- even when we're not sure if we're laughing at the characters or ourselves.
Greco channels a bit of Ray Bradbury, and gives us a sci-fi glimpse of what our future might be if our present is already taken over by robots in grocery stores, online shopping, and cell phones.
Is it great literature? Um, no. Is it a glimpse inside Ralph Greco's mind after he's read too many mid-twentieth century pulp magazines? I think so. He's written his own pulp magazine for the internet age.
Some stories are naughty, some clean. Some satire. Some worth pondering. There's even a horror story about a horny zombie. Some stories are a mere two-to-three pages, others longer. Robots. Aliens.
Greco isn't one to pen complex prose. His stories are meant to be fun, meant to provide a respite from the modern world, meant to make us look our problems and foibles in the face and laugh-- even when we're not sure if we're laughing at the characters or ourselves.
Greco channels a bit of Ray Bradbury, and gives us a sci-fi glimpse of what our future might be if our present is already taken over by robots in grocery stores, online shopping, and cell phones.
Is it great literature? Um, no. Is it a glimpse inside Ralph Greco's mind after he's read too many mid-twentieth century pulp magazines? I think so. He's written his own pulp magazine for the internet age.
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